About Bridge Defense. Bridge Defense is redefining how modern defense technology is delivered. Based in Washington, D.C., we are built for the dynamic mission environment facing the Department of Defense, the Intelligence Community, and federal law enforcement agencies. We provide full-spectrum national security solutions that combine secure infrastructure, cleared talent, and mission-ready software to meet evolving defense challenges. Our services include secure software development in classified environments and the design and implementation of advanced IT and cybersecurity capabilities ranging from secure cloud architectures and enterprise infrastructure to data center operations, scientific analysis, cutting-edge cyber defense, and intelligence analysis.

We are led by technologists and veterans with firsthand mission experience, which enables us to understand both the operational realities and the innovation needed to succeed. Our approach is agile and outcome-based, delivering results in weeks rather than months whenever possible.

At Bridge Defense we value people, integrity, and excellence. We foster an environment where innovation thrives in support of traditional mission requirements. Our team members receive competitive compensation, robust benefits, professional development and certification opportunities, and clear paths for growth while working on the nation’s most critical projects.

Core Values:

• Innovation & Responsiveness: We push beyond legacy models with efficient, tech-led solutions built to scale and evolve.
• Trusted Performance: Security, compliance, and deep experience in delivering to demanding environments guides all we do.
• Mission Focused Expertise: From veteran leadership to cleared engineers, our people understand both the technology and the mission.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Supports the development of analytic strategies to resolve key intelligence questions of missiondriven requirements.
• Works with ambiguous information, deconstructs key questions, suggests methodologies, develops data schema to structured observations, and supports visualization of applicable data.
• Identifies and evaluates a wide range of existing methods, models, and algorithms to develop more accurate, complete, objective, and anticipatory analysis for intelligence production.
• Identifies, retrieves, manipulates, relates, and / or exploits structured data sets from all available sources.
• Uses scripts, visual analytic modeling tools, and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for repeatable, widely applicable procedures.
• Combines empirical or quantitative methods with data analysis for intelligence production of complex and data-driven assessments.
• Evaluates the capabilities and limitations of analytic methodologies.

Required Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience with data exploration, data cleaning, data analysis, data visualization, data mining, decision analysis or modeling and simulation.
• 3+ years of experience with statistical and general-purpose programming languages for data analysis, such as Python or R
• Experience developing and documenting predictive data models, quantitative analyses, and visualization of targeted data sources  
• Formal training or professional experience conducting quantitative social science, including survey design and analysis and/or field or laboratory experiments.
• Possession of excellent detail-oriented and organizational skills
• Possession of excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Bachelor’s degree in statistics, data science, computer science or quantitative social science or four additional years of experience in those fields

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree or Ph.D. in quantitative social science including statistics and methodological training.
• Ability to work with non-technical audiences on technical problems in a highly collaborative and team-oriented environment, and balance long and short-term taskings
• Ability to take poorly defined problems and convert them into questions for which practical quantitative solutions can be defined
• Ability to exhibit flexibility, initiative, and innovation to succeed in an ambiguous and fast-paced environment and compose client deliverable quality documentation, analysis, and reports

General Factors:

• Depending on project requirements, may be required to work within a compressed schedule; more than 40-hour work weeks should be expected when schedules demand it.
• Willing to travel, if needed.
• No Relocation.
• Must be able to sit/stand at a desk for long-periods and must be able to lift 20 pounds occasionally.
• Must be able to multi-task and rapidly change priorities with limited notice.

Clearance: TS/SCI with current CI Poly (adjudicated within the past 5 years or ability to pass a CI Poly)

Location:  Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling; On-Site

Salary Range: 70K - 87K

Online applications, please.

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Bridge Defense is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. It is the policy of the company to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation and gender identity or expression, national origin or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. If you are a qualified disabled veteran or individual with a disability and need reasonable accommodation to use or access our online system, please contact us at 202-436-9222.