Triad Modernization Advisor (1099)
About the role
DEFCON AI is an insights company that leverages artificial intelligence, mathematical optimization, data analytics, and software engineering for resilient optimization of complex systems. In today's dynamically changing world, DEFCON AI's technology aligns outcomes with operational goals, better decision making, and empowers customers to anticipate, assess, and mitigate the impacts of disruptions. DEFCON AI is modeling how risk cascades across the nuclear Triad. When a schedule slips, a cost estimate breaches, or capacity comes up short in one program, the consequences rarely stay in that program. We make those second and third order effects visible early enough for a decision maker to do something. We are looking for a Triad Modernization Advisor to bring firsthand nuclear enterprise experience to that effort. You will be the person on the team who can look at a model result and say whether it reflects how the enterprise actually behaves, and who can get the underlying data into shape when it arrives messy.
Responsibilities
- Apply firsthand expertise in nuclear triad modernization to sharpen and validate our optimization models and decision support tools
- Pressure-test model assumptions and outputs against how the enterprise plans, programs, and executes in reality
- Work alongside an interdisciplinary team of optimization and simulation experts to design, build, and refine models that deliver real-world decision support
- Partner directly with customers, product leadership, and external stakeholders
- Organize, clean, and translate acquisition planning and budget datasets tied to legacy system sustainment and modernization programs
- Interpret and visualize data on program cost, schedule, and performance
- Reconcile data that arrives from multiple sources in different formats and may not agree with itself
Requirements
- Firsthand experience in nuclear triad modernization. You have held program, requirements, resourcing, or operational planning responsibility inside one or more of these efforts.
- Working command of the nuclear enterprise. Planning processes, acquisition programs