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Triad Modernization Advisor (1099)

Join DEFCON AI as a Triad Modernization Advisor, leveraging nuclear enterprise experience to enhance optimization models.

Location
Offutt AFB, Nebraska, United States
Compensation
Not disclosed
Level
senior
Type
contract · Hybrid

Posted by employer 18 hours ago

First seen on Joblaze 9 hours ago

Last verified on the company career page 9 hours ago

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What you'll build

  • Apply expertise in nuclear triad modernization
  • Pressure-test model assumptions and outputs
  • Organize and clean datasets
  • Interpret and visualize data
  • Reconcile data from multiple sources

Must have

  • Firsthand experience in nuclear triad modernization
  • Working command of the nuclear enterprise
  • Accountable for analysis at O6, flag, or SES level
  • Active Secret or above clearance

Nice to have

  • Experience at or above O4/GS-13 level in Combatant Command
  • Background in consulting or systems engineering
  • Experience within operational commands or defense innovation organizations
  • Modeling, simulation, or operations research experience

AI in the day-to-day

DEFCON AI leverages artificial intelligence for resilient optimization of complex systems.

Requirements

Visa
No sponsorship (stated in posting)

Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, years of experience.

Joblaze summary

The Triad Modernization Advisor at DEFCON AI focuses on enhancing optimization models related to the nuclear Triad by applying extensive firsthand experience in nuclear enterprise operations. This role requires a strong command of planning and budgeting processes, as well as the ability to clean and interpret complex datasets. Ideal candidates will have a background in operational planning or systems engineering, particularly at senior levels within military or defense organizations. The position involves collaboration with an interdisciplinary team and direct engagement with stakeholders to ensure model accuracy and relevance.

Joblaze insights

Quick facts

Is the Triad Modernization Advisor (1099) role remote?
It's hybrid — DEFCON AI expects some on-site time in Offutt AFB, Nebraska, United States.
Where is the role based?
DEFCON AI is hiring for this position in Offutt AFB, Nebraska, United States.
What's the tech stack?
Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Data Analytics, Optimization, Software Engineering, nuclear triad.
What seniority level is this role?
DEFCON AI targets senior candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?
Contract for this Triad Modernization Advisor (1099) role at DEFCON AI.

From the original posting

ABOUT DEFCON AI

RESILIENCE IN THE FACE OF DISRUPTION. 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.

About the Triad Modernization Advisor Role

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.

This is a 1099 consulting engagement of up to 20 hours per week. The role is primarily on-site in the Offutt AFB area, with some work performed remotely.

What you will do:

Triad Expertise:

  • 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

Data:

  • 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

What we are looking for

  • 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, and the funding mechanisms behind them, including planning, programming, budgeting, and execution (PPBE) and program objective memorandum (POM) rhythms, milestone decisions, and appropriation categories.
  • Executive-level results. You have been accountable for analysis that informed resourcing or program decisions, and you have briefed and defended it at the O6, flag, or SES level.
  • Systems thinking. You can trace an effect across program, budget, and operational boundaries.
  • Communication in both directions. You can be useful to a modeler debugging an assumption in the morning and to a senior operational customer in the afternoon.
  • Clearance. Active Secret or above.
  • Location. Offutt Air Force Base commuting area.

Bonus points

  • Experience at or above the O4/GS-13 level in a Combatant Command J5, J8, or similar organization
  • Background in consulting, systems engineering, operational planning, or mission-focused solution development
  • Experience within operational commands, service headquarters, Joint Staff, OSW, or defense innovation organizations
  • Modeling, simulation, or operations research experience
We’re an Equal Opportunity Employer: You’ll receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability.

Applicant Data Disclosure
By submitting an application, you acknowledge that Defcon AI uses third-party service providers to facilitate its recruitment and hiring processes. These providers include applicant tracking systems, candidate verification platforms, and fraud detection tools (collectively, "Hiring Platforms"). Your application materials, including your résumé, cover letter, work samples, responses to application questions, and any other information you submit, may be transmitted to and processed by these Hiring Platforms for the following purposes:
  • Managing and administering your application throughout the hiring process;
  • Verifying the accuracy and authenticity of application materials, including by cross-referencing information you provide against publicly available sources and proprietary databases;
  • Identifying indicators of potentially fraudulent, fabricated, or materially misleading application content, including but not limited to discrepancies between submitted materials and publicly available professional profiles, geographic anomalies, and fabricated work histories.
Applications that are flagged through this process as containing indicators of fraud or material misrepresentation may be declined from further consideration. If you have questions about the status of your application or the evaluation process, please contact recruiting@defconai.com.
Defcon AI requires its Hiring Platform providers to process your information solely for the purposes described above and in accordance with applicable law. Your information will be retained only for as long as necessary to fulfill these purposes and any applicable legal obligations, after which it will be deleted in accordance with Defcon AI's data retention policies.
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