Staff Simulation Data Modeler

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Oversee the catalog strategy across various catalog segments.

• Develop and sustain a well-structured catalog of entities across service branches, countries, and periods, monitoring completion, freshness, and data reliability.

• Collaborate with Customer Relations to transform customer and field feedback into a prioritized catalog roadmap.

• Investigate sources and establish governing principles for the creation of human and AI entities.

• Research, adopt, or create defensible formulas for weapon effects, sensor effects, fuel consumption, survivability, and other performance models.

• Justify modeling choices to customers and subject matter experts while collaborating with Engineering on implementation.

• Build and maintain a network of subject matter experts.

• Direct AI-agent workflows for initial research, data entry, and documentation on a large scale.

• Design prompts, review processes, and guidelines for analysts and their agents.

• Define requirements for workflow-enhancing tools and collaborate with Engineering to develop them.

• Lead the verification, validation, and accreditation processes across catalog segments.

• Oversee the development of automated test batteries and work alongside Engineering for continuous catalog testing.

• Organize and facilitate competitive wargames to test entities and assumptions rigorously.

• Analyze the catalog and promote ongoing enhancements.

• Establish documentation standards and write internal and external knowledge articles that clarify model logic and sourcing.

• Provide training and mentorship to analysts on tradecraft, rubrics, and verification, validation, and accreditation methods.

⛳️ Requirements

• Strong research and analytical capabilities, exhibiting sound judgment when source data is incomplete or contradictory.

• Proven ability to guide AI agents through clear directives, review checkpoints, and error detection mechanisms.

• Proficient in quantitative modeling and verifying formulas related to weapon effects, fuel usage, and survivability.

• Excellent organizational skills to maintain a catalog/tracking system encompassing hundreds of items.

• Effective and concise written and verbal communication skills.

• A wargamer's perspective and concern for simulation precision.

• Comfortable acting as the escalation point for disputable technical decisions and defending them to customers or subject matter experts.

• Experience with game modding tools, editors, or simulation authoring environments (preferred).

• Experience collaborating with engineering on test automation or quality assurance tooling (preferred).

• Familiarity with military doctrine, force structure, or platform performance data (preferred).

• Background in version control and bug-tracking systems (preferred).

• Experience in mentoring, training, or establishing technical standards adopted by other analysts or contributors (preferred).

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity offerings.

• Remote-first work culture.

• Flexible working hours.

• Unlimited paid time off.

• Comprehensive health, dental, vision, and life insurance.

• 401(k) plan with company matching.

• 8 weeks of parental leave at 100% pay, regardless of location.

• Annual company summit trips.

• $1,000 per year allocated for home office enhancements.