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Biologist – Senior
| Company | Booz Allen |
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| Location | McLean, VA, USA |
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| Salary | $112800 – $257000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s |
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| Experience Level | Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- 11+ years of experience conducting systems engineering or research developing and advancing physics-based models relating to atmospheric transport or biological weapons effects
- 11+ years of experience with engineering research, reverse engineering analysis or characterizations, and facility and vulnerability assessments on foreign biological capabilities
- Experience with systems engineering approaches to biological weapons effects
- Ability to evaluate all project aspects, including design, development, execution, and implementation of chemical and biological research
- Active TS/SCI clearance; willingness to take a polygraph exam
- Bachelor’s degree in Biology, Biological Sciences, or Epidemiology
Responsibilities
- Leverage scientific knowledge to support biological or biochemical research agendas
- Apply leading-edge principles, theories, and concepts and contribute to the development of new principles and concepts
- Work on unusually complex problems and provide highly innovative solutions
- Operate with substantial latitude for unreviewed action or decision and mentor or supervise employees in both organization and technical competencies
- Provide biological weapons effects subject matter expertise to client research and modeling and simulation (M&S) programs
- Apply biological weapons effects knowledge to support client biological technology effects, detection, and forensic research programs
- Support various multi-int teams conducting hard target deconstruction, preparing technical collection concepts, developing R&D requirements, and preparing technical collection research reports.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience as a principal investigator
- Experience with DoD agencies
- Experience with military operations, biological command, control, communications, survivability, and hard target defeat
- Knowledge of systems engineering, data science, artificial intelligence, and machine learning
- Knowledge of weapons control technology
- Master’s degree in Biology, Biological Sciences, Epidemiology, or a related discipline
- TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph
