Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Onebrief builds collaboration and AI-powered workflow software for military planning and operational coordination. The Staff Simulation Data Modeler will own the AtomEngine simulation entity catalog, directing AI-assisted research and production, developing quantitative performance models and standards, and leading verification, validation, and accreditation. The role also partners with Customer Relations and Engineering, runs competitive wargames, and mentors analysts.
Responsibilities
- Lead catalog strategy across multiple catalog segments. Build and maintain a structured catalog of all entities to be created across all service branches, nations, and eras — tracking completion, freshness, and data confidence for each segment
- Partner with Customer Relations to translate customer and field feedback into a prioritized roadmap for which catalog segments matter most right now
- Research the sources and codify the governing principles that any agent (human or AI) must follow when building entities
- Research and adopt or develop defensible formulas for weapon effects, sensor effects, fuel burn, survivability, and other performance models; make calls on when to adapt existing precedent versus build an original model from scratch; defend those models directly to customers and SMEs. Partner with Engineering on implementation
- Create & maintain a trusted network of subject matter experts you can pull in to ground the toughest modeling calls in real-world judgment
- Use modern agentic AI workflows as your primary force multiplier: design prompts, review loops, and guardrails that other analysts and their agents adopt to handle first-draft research, data entry, and documentation at scale, while you supervise for accuracy and catch what they miss
- Envision and define requirements for tools that accelerate the team’s workflow further, and partner with Engineering to help build them
- Lead the ongoing VV&A across multiple catalog segments: is it accurate, is it tested, and can you prove it
- Direct which automated test batteries get built and why, partnering with Engineering to design and implement automated tests that run continuously against the content catalog, catching regressions and inconsistencies before they reach customers
- Organize and run competitive wargames against other Simulation Content Creators and Customer Relations to stress-test your own entities and assumptions, using the results to validate or correct parametric data
- Continually interrogate the catalog and drive its ongoing improvement
- Lead documentation standards across the team, and author internal and external-facing knowledge articles that defensibly explain the model's logic and sourcing to “show your work” so customers and internal teams trust the numbers
- Train and mentor other analysts on the tradecraft, rubrics, and VV&A methods you've established
Skills
- Strong research and analytical skills, with the judgment to make sound assumptions when source data is incomplete or conflicted
- Demonstrated ability to direct AI agents productively, writing clear instructions, structuring review checkpoints, and catching agent errors, rather than doing all research and data entry by hand
- Comfort with quantitative modeling: you can reason about and sanity-check formulas for things like weapon effects, fuel consumption, or survivability, even if you're not writing production code yourself
- Strong organizational skills: you can build and maintain a catalog/tracking system spanning hundreds of items without losing the thread on what's fresh, what's stale, and what's next
- Concise, effective written and verbal communication — you'll be authoring standards documents and knowledge articles that other people and agents must be able to follow exactly
- A wargamer's mindset: you care whether the simulation is •right•, not just whether it runs
- Comfortable serving as the escalation point for contested technical calls, and defending those calls directly to customers or subject matter experts
- Experience with game modding tools, editors, or simulation authoring environments (hobbyist or professional)
- Experience partnering with engineering on test automation or QA tooling
- Familiarity with military doctrine, force structure, or platform performance data
- Experience with version control and bug-tracking systems
- Experience mentoring, training, or setting technical standards adopted by other analysts or contributors
Benefits
- Offers Equity
- Remote work
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