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This is where your skills strengthen national security, cybersecurity, health, transportation, and citizen services. We’re a nonprofit engineering, applied research, and advanced technology organization working in the public interest. With objectivity and integrity at our core, we lead federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies - collaborating with industry and academia to deliver integrated, high-impact solutions that advance our nation’s health, security, and prosperity. Our people tackle the toughest technical challenges, supported by competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence. Choose MITRE for a career with purpose - and help shape the future.Department Summary:\nWe are seeking an experienced cost analyst to join our team. The MITRE Corporation’s Acquisition Affordability and Business Analytics Department is seeking a decision/cost analyst to support multiple projects solving our sponsors’ most critical economic and financial challenges. This department serves as a vanguard for MITRE to meet the future needs of our sponsors, requiring technical excellence while encouraging creativity and fostering interest in the intersection of emerging technologies, cost, business, and economic impacts across its diverse membership. Expect a multi-disciplinary team environment with self-motivated, highly trained professionals. The work includes engaging with sponsors to scope and prioritize tasks, collecting large datasets to perform data-driven analyses, conducting market research, investigating relevant policies and regulations, understanding the current budgetary and political environment, and performing additional research and analysis as necessary. This is a project-oriented position that may require project management, collaboration, communicating to technical and non-technical audiences, and direct sponsor engagement.\nThe Acquisition Affordability and Business Analytics Department within the Acquisition Division in MITRE Technology and Engineering solves our sponsors’ problems by leveraging our capabilities within:\nCost Estimation and Analysis\nInvestment Economics & Decision Analysis\nStrategic Business & Financial Analytics\nThis position supports the department’s capabilities in cost, economic, business analyses, and data science as needed. That work could include life-cycle cost estimating, tradeoff and affordability analyses, decision analysis, portfolio investment analysis, economic analysis and modeling, research, business case analysis, modeling and simulation, advanced statistical techniques, and constrained optimization.\nCandidates should expect a dynamic and collaborative environment where tasks are rarely routine and often require innovative and adaptive approaches. Successful team members are comfortable working across multiple projects simultaneously, operating with limited structure or supervision, and engaging directly with sponsors to solve complex, ambiguous problems.\nRoles & Responsibilities:\nLead teams of junior analysts to successfully meet project objectives.\nIdentify, scope, and execute structured analysis for government sponsors while managing timelines, deliverables, and outcomes.\nKey functions include developing models and performing qualitative and quantitative analyses to understand the cost/economic/financial impact of investments, risk mitigation strategies, options, and other government actions.\nCollect and analyze financial, cost, and economic data.\nDevelop and/or evaluate program technical and programmatic baselines.\nDevelop innovative development, production, and operating and support (O&S) cost estimating techniques for a broad range of cost elements.\nDevelop independent or program life cycle cost estimates (LCCEs) and accompanying cost and schedule risk, uncertainty, and sensitivity analysis.\nDevelop cost estimates in support of source selection, including Independent Government Cost Estimates (IGCEs).\nPerform cost-related studies and analysis, e.g., on rate reasonableness.\nDevelop investment economic and decision analyses, including business case analyses, cost/benefit analyses, analysis of alternatives, and affordability analysis\nDevelop strategic business and financial analyses, including but not limited to:Economic studiesCost recovery strategiesBudget development and planningAffordability analysis\nAssess the credibility of government and industry cost estimates using benchmark guidance, such as the GAO 12 steps and the Cost Estimating Body of Knowledge (CEBoK).\nAssess the credibility of government and industry cost savings initiatives data.\nConduct surveys and utilize various sampling techniques.\nResearch various fields, including politics, national security, healthcare, education, energy, etc.\nMake use of historical data and analyze market trends.\nAssist in identifying sources of information and gathering a wide range of quantitative and qualitative data to support decisions that have implications for MITRE and its government sponsors.\nApply analysis skills, including exploratory data analysis, time series analysis, and linear regression.\nDraw conclusions from analyses and clearly and concisely articulate key findings in both written and verbal form.\nAssist in developing data visualization products that improve the presentation of complex data sets.\nTranslate unstructured data and nontraditional sources of information into business insights.\nPerform data cleaning, visualization, and analysis in standard statistical and graphics software languages such as R, Stata, and Excel.\nBasic Qualifications:\nA minimum of 8 years of experience, including previous leadership experience in cost estimating, cost risk analysis, and/or budgeting and the CPIC process in defense, intelligence, and/or civil agencies.\nBA/BS or Master’s in Economics, Mathematics, Statistics, Finance, Business, Operations Research, Systems Engineering, Data Science, or related field.\nProficiency in development of risk-adjusted LCCEs and investment economic and decision analyses.\nProficient with MS Office Suite and other tools for analysis.\nTechnical depth with demonstrated skills and experience in presenting analytical results both verbally and in writing.\nMust be eligible to obtain and maintain a Top Secret U.S. Government-issued Security Clearance. Per the U.S. Government’s eligibility requirements, you must be a U.S. Citizen to be considered for a security clearance.\nThis position requires a minimum of 4 days a week on-site.\nPreferred Qualifications:\nFamiliarity with software engineering best practices and agile DevOps software development processes.\nExperience with econometric/economic modeling and analysis.\nExperience with developing Independent Government Cost Estimates (IGCEs) for service and product acquisitions.\nStrong working knowledge of federal budgeting and spending mechanics, processes, and data, including:Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) and OMB Circular A-11\nAcquisition reform and PPBE reform initiatives\nFederal Acquisition Regulations\nCapital Planning and Investment Control (CPIC)\nFederal spending data, including USASpending.gov, SAM.gov, or FPDS-NG\n\nInvestment modeling and analysis, cost benefit analysis, experience in handling large datasets for data-driven analysis, policy and investment analysis, and economic analysis in support of regulatory policy, pre- and post-implementation analysis, forecasting, and applied research.\nSource selection cost evaluation experience.\nExpertise in using parametric cost estimating tools (PRICE, SEER SEM, SEERAi, etc.) and other cost-related automated tools (e.g., ACEIT).\nICEAA Certification or Defense Acquisition Workforce Initiative Act (DAWIA) certification desired.\nKnowledge and understanding of federal government budget and spending rules, processes, and procedures.\nDemonstrated interest in public service and advancing mission-focused outcomes.\nStrong foundation in Python and SQL and familiarity with modern data processing tools or frameworks (e.g., Pandas, Spark, Databricks, Airflow).\nProficiency in optimization-related coding, e.g., in Python.\nThis requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):\nNoneThis requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):\nTop SecretSalary compensation range and midpoint:\n$138,800 - $173,500 - $208,200 AnnualWork Location Type:\nOnsiteIt is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.\nCommitment to Non-Discrimination\nAll qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local or international law.\nMITRE intends to maintain a website that is fully accessible to all individuals. If you are unable to search or apply for jobs and would like to request a reasonable accommodation for any part of MITRE’s employment process, please email  for general support and  for intern positions. This service is for individuals requiring reasonable accommodation requests. Please note that vendor solicitations will not receive a reply.\nBenefits information may be found here.\nCopyright © 1997-2026, The MITRE Corporation. All rights reserved. MITRE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. 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