Physicist/All-source analyst

Nalley Consulting

• $110K — $130K *
Aerospace & Defense
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Active TS/SCI clearance with willingness to take a polygraph exam.
  • Bachelor's degree with 8+ years of intelligence experience, or 12+ years without a degree.
  • Experience in all-source analytic production on nuclear programs and related facilities.
  • Knowledge of SIGINT, GEOINT, OSINT, and HUMINT data sets.
  • Ability to produce high-quality, actionable intelligence deliverables.
  • Experience with nuclear weapons effects and infrastructure analysis.
  • Strong collaboration skills with mission partners.

Responsibilities

  • Support defense analytical requirements through scientific research and analysis.
  • Conduct independent research in various fields of physics, including astrophysics and biophysics.
  • Prepare detailed reports and documentation of findings and activities.
  • Oversee and advise on engineering disciplines related to fiber optics and lasers.
  • Identify characteristics of hard and deeply buried targets.
  • Adjust to changing mission requirements and deliver timely products.
  • Lead briefings and collaborate with mission partners on production.

Benefits

  • Excellent medical, dental, and vision benefits.
  • Paid time off (PTO) and 11 paid federal holidays.
  • Tuition assistance for further education.
  • Paid military-reserve leave and parental leave for birth or adoption.
  • 401k matching up to 5% of base salary.
  • Flexible work hours (flex time).
  • Company-paid short-term and long-term disability, and life insurance.
Full Job Description
Join the Nalley Consulting team as a physicist and all-source analyst.

Position: Physicist and All-Source Analyst
LCATs: Sr
Location: Reston, VA

Required Clearance: TS/SCI clearance. CI poly required; those with active CI polys will have preference.

Physicist and All-Source Analyst, Senior

The Opportunity:

Support defense analytical requirements with enhanced scientific research, capability or limitation analysis, reverse engineering analysis or characterizations, and facility and vulnerability assessments. Support applied and interdisciplinary fields of physics such as astrophysics, biophysics, directed energy weapons, and geophysics. Conduct independent research, technical writing, modeling, and overseeing or advising of allied engineering disciplines on fiber optics, acoustics, semiconductors, lasers, weapons development, and testing and identify the characteristics of hard and deeply buried targets. Prepare products to describe and document findings and activities.

Required:
  • Experience conducting all-source analytic production on nuclear programs, including production facilities, stockpiles, logistics, systems employment, security, and vulnerabilities of facilities and stockpiles
  • Experience with all-source analysis production, including analytic tradecraft, ICD 203 and 206, and DIA writing style
  • Knowledge of applying and querying SIGINT, GEOINT, OSINT, and HUMINT data sets and databases
  • Knowledge of nuclear weapons programs, including nuclear weapons effects, nuclear fuel cycle, and nuclear infrastructure
  • Ability to independently develop high-quality tailored deliverables, including actionable leads, ICD-compliant written products, network charts, and formal or informal briefings
  • Ability to adjust to changing mission requirements and deliver products within a short time frame
  • Ability to collaborate with other mission partners on production and take lead briefing at unique events
  • Active TS/SCI clearance; willingness to take a polygraph exam
  • Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of experience with intelligence, or 12+ years of experience with intelligence in lieu of a degree

Nice If You Have:
  • Experience countering missiles and delivery systems, advanced weapons, and CBRNE
  • Experience with data analytics and visualization
  • TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph
  • Bachelor's degree in Nuclear Engineering, Physics, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or Chemical Engineering


Nalley Consulting fringe benefits include:
  • Excellent medical, dental, and vision benefits
  • PTO
  • 11 paid federal holidays
  • Tuition assistance
  • Paid military-reserve leave
  • Paid parental leave for birth or adoption
  • 401k matching up to 5 percent of the base salary
  • Flex time
  • Company-paid short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance.

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