Director Operations Analysis
Shield AI is a U.S. defense-technology company developing mission-autonomy software and autonomous aircraft for military and allied operations.
Funding history
Investors
About Shield AI
Founded in 2015, Shield AI builds Hivemind autonomy software and V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft for operations in contested, GPS- and communications-denied environments. Its current site also presents Aechelon synthetic-reality simulation and Vision Systems detection and tracking products.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead and grow the Operations Analysis team and turn operational problems into quantitative recommendations. You will direct mission and campaign analysis, modeling, simulation, wargaming, and trade studies; establish analytical standards; support customer engagements; and connect operational outcomes to product requirements and autonomy performance.
Requirements
- Have a bachelor's degree in a listed technical field or related discipline
- Have 10+ years of relevant operations analysis, mission analysis, modeling and simulation, systems analysis, military analysis, or campaign analysis experience
- Have 5+ years of experience leading teams, projects, or technical analysis efforts
- Have experience using modeling and simulation to inform operational, program, product, or system decisions
- Understand military operations, mission planning, force employment, sensing, communications, autonomy, aircraft systems, or weapons systems
- Be able to translate ambiguous operational questions into quantitative analysis and decision-quality outputs
- Be a U.S. citizen and eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance
Responsibilities
- Lead, hire, mentor, and manage the Operations Analysis team
- Build analysis capabilities that inform product strategy, autonomy roadmaps, customer pursuits, and program execution
- Define and execute mission analysis, campaign analysis, force-on-force studies, CONOPS evaluations, and operational trade studies
- Translate operational problems into analysis plans and product recommendations
- Guide modeling and simulation using AFSIM, NGTS, STK, MATLAB, Python, and custom environments
- Establish standards for model credibility, assumption tracking, sensitivity analysis, uncertainty characterization, and communication
- Create executive-ready analysis briefings and recommendations
- Support customer engagements with technically grounded operational analysis
- Shape product requirements using operational outcomes and performance needs
- Build reusable analysis frameworks, scenarios, vignettes, and metrics
Benefits
- Bonus
- Equity