Senior Applied Economist

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Department Summary:

MITRE’s Complex Systems Department (L644) is seeking MITRE is currently seeking an Applied Economist with experience in macroeconomic modeling to support the continued growth of our portfolio of economics work across an exciting and diverse set of sponsors. We are focused on solving problems for a safer world and conduct quantitative economic modeling and analysis to inform and assess the impacts of changes to domestic and international policies, regulations, technology, infrastructure, and events. Our deep technical expertise and breadth of perspective provide insights across many topics.

Our economics team has expertise in advanced econometrics, macroeconomics and microeconomics, industrial organization, labor, international trade and finance, forecasting, policy analysis, computable general equilibrium modeling, complex valuations, and spatial modeling/statistics. Our backgrounds as just as diverse, with applied experience in government, industry, and academia. We also partner with leading practitioners from universities around the world in developing world class and one-of-a-kind capabilities. MITRE’s diverse work program includes sponsorship from across government agencies, as well as a robust applied research program. This position offers the opportunity to interact directly with government leaders in a fast-paced and dynamic atmosphere with the ability to make a difference and impact outcomes with solid analysis.

Our employees are expected to work on multiple projects, cross-pollinate good ideas across the government and continuously learn. We work to solve modeling and analytic problems in the public interest, in partnership with the government. We also actively conduct independent research in areas of interest to our government partners.

Roles & Responsibilities:

To be successful you will:

• Be passionate about developing custom research using advanced economic and econometric techniques.
• Have hands-on experience handling large datasets to conduct data driven analysis.
• Conduct economic analysis in support of regulatory policy, pre- and post-implementation analysis
• Present and communicate results of research as intuitive, actionable, and practical solutions to internal and external stakeholders and in a manner that can be understood by all audiences, regardless of technical expertise
• Conduct creative application of economic theory and models in multiple domains when facing data constraints
• Have an innate curiosity and interest in developing research questions and testing hypotheses with open ended tasking.
• Work with a spectrum of government sponsors to gain understanding of their challenges, evaluate possible solutions, and conduct insightful, actionable analyses.
• Support development and application of a variety of advanced economic/econometric techniques to sponsor challenges, with a willingness to adapt and learn in a fast-paced environment.
• Take initiative in owning aspects of your work and be a collaborative teammate.

Basic Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree in Economics or equivalent with 3 years of related experience. Academic (teaching, research) experience counts toward minimum
• Experience in advanced econometrics, including causal inference and structural estimation.
• Experience developing structural international trade, general equilibrium, or macroeconomic models to perform counterfactual assessments.
• Strong attention to detail and accountability for own work.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and ability to translate technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to formulate rigorous models based on loosely defined or underspecified research questions and requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively across diverse teams, departments, and other organizations.
• Creatively develop solutions to overcome data limitations when needed.
• Demonstrated experience leading stakeholder/funder facing engagements and providing relevant day-to-day tasking for one or more junior staff.
• Applied experience leading technical development tasks and teams.
• Ability to obtain Active DoD Top Secret/SCI clearance.
• Per the U.S. Government’s eligibility requirements, you must be a U.S Citizen to be considered for a security clearance).
• This position requires a minimum of 3 days a week on-site.

Preferred Qualifications:

• PhD or PhD Candidate in Economics.
• Experience in the following topic areas is desired, but not required: international trade, international finance, supply chains, critical infrastructure, and/or defense.
• Experience with dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) modeling or computable general equilibrium (CGE) modeling is desired, not required.
• Experience working with government sponsors and agencies desired, not required.
• Applied experience leading large technical development tasks across multi-disciplinary teams.
• Demonstrated experience engaging with external stakeholders and shaping work with those stakeholders.
• Prior experience developing solutions in a poorly defined environment involving multiple stakeholders at various levels of technical sophistication
• Active TS or TS/SCI preferred.

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

None

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):

Top Secret/SCI

Salary compensation range and midpoint:

$113,600 - $142,000 - $170,400 Annual

Work Location Type:

Onsite

Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All 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.

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