Modeling and Simulation Engineer

Key Skills

API, ggplot, Julia, Machine learning techniques, macOS platform, MATLAB Programming, matplotlib, NoSQL, Python Programming, R Programming, React.js, Simulation software, Spark Core, SQL, Tableau, Unix Operating system

Job Description

Responsibilities

Overall Assignment Description:

The Modeling & Analysis (M&A) team at Peraton is analyzing ​end-to-end mission performance and mission effectiveness ​for all the geospatial imagery transactions​, architectures, and workflows within the NSG (National System for Geospatial-Intelligence). Our analysis drives decision making across the NSG to create the future of GEOINT. We help optimize the Intelligence Community (IC) to get GEOINT data more efficiently to the users who need it most. As a member of the team, you will use your skills to help identify trends and patterns using our data-rich ecosystem of GEOINT collection & performance metadata spanning 50+ IC systems.

Our team is a recognized IC leader with decades of expertise in providing customers with data-driven analysis shaping the architectures of the future. We use our expertise in analytics, visualization, and programming to develop innovative solutions – providing mission “ground truth”, immersive trades, and strategic direction to our diverse set of clients. Your role on our team will help contribute to exciting analysis crossing agency boundaries. We provide solutions that address the exponential growth in GEOINT data – spanning space/ground infrastructure, imagery products, CONOPS, services, and cloud computing.

Duties include:

Duties include:

• Design and perform trades – model new capabilities to deliver predictions, assessments, and recommendations to enhance NSG architectures in hybrid (cloud and datacenter) environments
• Lead trade studies – apply models to help create data driven decisions to IC policy (e.g. NSG financial cost models, optimizing sensor-to-shooter timelines)
• Embrace the opportunity to understand end-to-end data instrumentation, flow, CONOPS, and performance
• Work with large (billion record) data sets containing categorical, temporal, and geospatial features to develop and execute models, using statistical analysis/programming languages
• Develop & enhance mathematical models, apply machine learning, & identify trends and patterns in big data
• Create and enhance the M&A GEOINT performance ecosystem of dashboards, simulators, and analytic models. This ecosystem visually portrays architectures and system performance, informs major program events (i.e., SRR, MS-B, ICBD, Cost Estimation), supports customer strategy, and helps drive the overall vision for the future of GEOINT
• Present & effectively communicate analysis & tradecraft study material to key stakeholders.
• Guides Mid-Level and Junior-Level system architects in the design, development, maintenance, and documentation of solution architectures ensuring traceability to the Enterprise architecture, Enterprise requirements and new technology.

Qualifications

BS 8-10, MS 6-8, PhD 3-5

Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees working on this critical National Security program, which include heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for you and your dependents, 25 days of PTO accrued annually up to a generous PTO cap and participation in an attractive bonus plan.

Skills and Experience:

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program.
• Junior-level working experience in government or industry modeling large complex System of Systems or Service Oriented Architecture/Cloud environments.

Desired:

• Programming & Scientific Computing experience with at least one of Python, R, Julia, C++, or MATLAB
• “Big” data wrangling & HPC programming tools (e.g. data.table, Polars, Apache Arrow, Apache Spark)
• Data visualization using scripting language package APIs (e.g. ggplot2, Matplotlib, Plotly, D3)
• Data driven web application prototyping (e.g. R Shiny, Dash, Bokeh, Flask, Tableau, React)
• Proficiency with Relational/Non-relational Databases & Joins (e.g., SQL, & NoSQL)
• Linux, MacOS, or Unix OS environment experience
• Familiarity or background in Image Science, Remote Sensing, & Orbital Mechanics
• Proficiency with relational database (e.g., SQL) and statistical analysis/programming languages (e.g., R / Python) and “big” data packages (e.g. R’s Data.Table, R’s h2o, Python’s Polars, Apache Spark APIs)
• Proficiency in Machine Learning
• Working knowledge of Model Based Systems Engineering, processes, tools and languages.
• Junior-level working experience in Operations Research.

Peraton Overview

Peraton drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted and highly differentiated national security solutions and technologies that keep people safe and secure. Peraton serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies across the intelligence, space, cyber, defense, civilian, health, and state and local markets. Every day, our employees do the can’t be done, solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers.

Target Salary Range

$86,000 - $138,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.