Staff Principal Scientist/Senior Economic Security Analyst

Job Description

Join a collaborative team of 8 multi-disciplinary science & technology, legal, and security professionals who are on a mission to advance the economic security priorities of OUSW(R&E) and the United States. Shape the policy and enforcement landscape of U.S. economic security with respect to the OUSW(R&E) Critical Technology Areas and other technology protection priorities. Analyze new proposals for new U.S. regulations, including changes to U.S. or multilateral export controls. Participate in related interagency working groups and negotiate on behalf of OUSW(R&E).

Requirements

• Minimum of 4 years of work specific to export control administration, policy, or compliance.
• Experience performing risk analysis and transaction research related to exports.
• Experience with a related U.S. government office (e.g. BIS, DDTC, DTSA).
• Familiarity with the Commerce Control List, U.S. Munitions List, and associated licensing principles. Experience classifying commodities by ECCN or USML code.
• Advanced experience performing and managing original research and development at an elite level. STEM Ph.D. equivalent preferred.
• Technical expertise related to at least one of the OUSW(R&E) Critical Technology Areas or OUSW(R&E) program areas.
• Broad technical literacy and communication skills - the ability to 'code switch' between talking to scientists and policy experts.
• Intermediate data science skills in coding languages like R. We mostly use R, but it's not a strict requirement.
• Be able to automate the manipulation of complex textual data, designing and building variable AI prompts from datasets.
• Advanced experimental design skills, sound epistemology, and independent methods of validation of AI products and workflows. Be able to prove the validity of your methods to an AI-skeptical audience.
• Be able to leverage APIs, leverage SQL databases, use git, and customize data systems and user interfaces within a U.S. government environment.
• Experienced at using AI to accelerate your coding. You will use several LLM platforms with APIs, but we do not yet have the ability for AI to execute code in loops.
• Passion for building the future!

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 10 years of relevant experience.
• Ideal 10 years of relevant technical, policy, legal, or military experience (Including graduate-level research experience like a Ph.D. research program).
• Eligible for a Top-Secret Clearance with SCI eligibility (Current Top-Secret clearance preferred).
• U.S. Citizenship Required for the purposes of obtaining/holding a U.S. security clearance.