Senior Biologist

Company Description

Founded in 1989, SOSi is among the largest private, founder-owned technology and services integrators in the defense and government services industry. We deliver tailored solutions, tested leadership, and trusted results to enable national security missions worldwide.

Job Description

Overview

• SOSi is seeking a Biologist Senior (Scientific Support) to join our team in Reston, VA in support of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)’s counter WMD proliferation analytical efforts.

Essential Job Duties

• Conduct all-source analytic production of foreign doctrine, strategy, plans, policies, objectives, goals, intentions, command authorities, force structures, and resources relating to current, emerging, and future BW programs and capabilities.
• Analysis may include, but not limited to, infectious disease risks, foreign medical countermeasures programs, biosafety and biosecurity and chemical / radiation health threats.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements

• BA degree in relevant field.
• 7 years of experience or a total of 12 years.
• Active DoD Top Secret Clearance with SCI and must be able to obtain CI Poly.
• Proficient in conducting all-source analysis of foreign defense industrial programs, infrastructure, and capabilities supporting a foreign country’s ability to develop, equip, sustain, and employ its military forces across basic, strategic, and military industrial sectors.
• Experience assessing the research, development, acquisition, test, evaluation and production of foreign weapon systems and equipment; their associated facilities and output levels, knowledge of emerging and enabling technologies; and supporting industrial supply networks from raw materials to finished weapon systems.
• Experience conducting analysis including but is not limited to overall industrial organization, production processes, industrial control systems, design and surge capacities, cooperative arrangements with foreign defense industries and reliance on foreign technologies.
• Demonstrates in-depth knowledge and understanding of the related field activities required to meet mission requirements.
• Demonstrates mastery of qualitative and quantitative analytic methodologies and pursuedevelopments in academia or other fields that affect tradecraft methodology.
• Demonstrates ability to define comprehensive, new, or unique research approaches that enable rigorous assessments to address and contribute to high-level tasks.
• Demonstrates in-depth analysis of analytic operations and knowledge management issues across organizational and intra-IC boundaries and clearly articulates key findings.
• Demonstrates ability to work independently and with minimal oversight.
• Demonstrates ability to review analytic products for cogent arguments, tradecraft standards, and adequate support for conclusions; routinely tests analytic rigor of analytic products.

Preferred Qualifications

• TS/SCI with a current CI Poly

Additional Information

Work Environment

• Normal office conditions
• On government site in Reston, Virginia

Working at SOSi

All interested individuals will receive consideration and will not be discriminated against for any reason.