Decision Analyst, Acquisition and Trade Studies

You help organizations choose between options on evidence. You run trade studies, draw out the criteria and weights that decision makers hold, build multi-attribute value models and test how the answer moves when the inputs change. You write each study so a person can check every step.

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Team: Superintelligence (SI) research and engineering, Kind: Full-time, Location: Remote, United States, Pay: $85,000 to $167,000 a year

Duties

Frame each decision with the people who own it, including the options, the objectives and the constraints.
Elicit criteria, weights and value functions from decision makers, and record where each one came from.
Build multi-attribute value models that score each option and show how each score was reached.
Run sensitivity analysis to find the weights and inputs that would change the preferred option.
Gather the evidence behind each score from documents and data, with a source for every figure.
Work with the engineers who build agent systems that gather evidence for a study, and check what those systems return.
Write trade study reports in which a reader can follow each step from the evidence to the recommendation.

What you bring

3+ years in decision analysis, operations research or systems engineering trade studies.
A degree in operations research, industrial or systems engineering, economics or a related field.
Experience with multi-attribute value or utility models and sensitivity analysis.
Experience leading elicitation sessions with decision makers and subject experts.
Clear writing for readers who check the reasoning.

Nice to have

Experience with acquisition decisions for complex engineered systems.
Experience with swing weighting or the analytic hierarchy process.
Experience with cost estimating or life-cycle cost models.
Python or R for modeling.

Pay and benefits

$85,000 to $167,000 a year

Full-time W-2 employment with health insurance, a retirement plan and paid leave.

No application deadline. We accept applications for this role on an ongoing basis.

Location

Remote, United States

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We review applications as each team grows and contact you when there is a match.

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