CBRN Subject Matter Expert
$145,000–$175,000 year
On-siteAlexandria, Virginia, United States
Job Summary
Conduct specialized technical expertise on CBRN/WMD risk and counterterrorism to support an Operations Research team developing models, simulations, and risk assessment tools. Advise analysts on threat pathways, agent characteristics, detection capabilities, and consequence mechanisms to ensure analytic approaches are technically valid and operationally realistic. Review modeling, simulation, analysis, and visualization products; contribute to technical analyses, requirements, concepts of operation, and test documentation. Lead technical portions of integrated product teams, develop risk and gap assessment reports, and present key CBRN findings to leadership. Primary performance location is SPA Headquarters in Alexandria, VA, with regular visits to customer sites in VA and DC. Requires Master's degree, 10+ years of experience, and Active Secret clearance with ability to obtain DHS Suitability. Salary range: $145k – $175k.
Required Qualifications
- Master's degree
- 10+ years of experience
- Demonstrated subject-matter expertise in CBRNE/WMD
- Chemical threats
- Biological threats
- Radiological threats
- Nuclear threats
- Explosive threats
- CBRN defense capabilities
- CBRN detection and surveillance systems
- CBRN incident response and consequence management
- Experience working with or supporting analytic/modeling efforts
- Operations research
- Risk assessment
- Modeling and simulation
- Systems analysis
- Demonstrated experience in homeland security
- Defense
- CBRN risk
- Terrorism
- Counterproliferation
- Program-level assessments
- Jurisdictional-level assessments
- Proven ability to communicate complex CBRN technical concepts clearly
- Written communication
- Verbal communication
- Active Secret clearance
- Ability to obtain DHS Suitability
- Able to work fully onsite
Desired Qualifications
- Experience providing technical CBRN support to program planning and oversight
- Exercise development
- Exercise execution
- Exercise evaluation
- System-level analysis
- System integration
- Understanding of CBRN threats
- Understanding of CBRN vulnerabilities
- Understanding of layered defense architectures
- Familiarity with DHS risk models
- Familiarity with CBRN models
- Familiarity with CBRN detection architecture concepts
- Prior experience integrating these into analytic or OR tools
- Active Top Secret clearance
- Active DHS Suitability
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