Staff Principal Scientist/Senior Economic Security Analyst at AMERICAN SYSTEMS
Alexandria, VA
$160,000–$180,000from the description
Jul 5, 2026
Alexandria, VA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role supports a federal office focused on protecting U.S. technology and research interests from foreign competition, primarily with China. Day-to-day work spans analyzing export control regulations, managing foreign investment (CFIUS) cases, writing policy proposals, and applying data science and AI tools to business intelligence and corporate filings to identify national security risks. It suits candidates with a background spanning at least two of: export control policy, advanced STEM research, or applied data science.
Senior level · 10+ years · Remote · Bachelor's required · TS/SCI clearance · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $90,896 (middle half $69,863–$128,761). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
The posting is physically located at the Mark Center in Alexandria, VA / the Pentagon (hybrid), but the caller has declared this a fully-remote role, so no metro is set and remote=true.
The role is primarily a policy/analysis position (export controls, CFIUS, economic security) with a data-science component as one of three optional specialization tracks. It sits between 15-2031 (Operations Research Analysts) and 15-2051 (Data Scientists); 15-2031 was chosen because policy analysis and research synthesis are the dominant day-to-day activities, with data science listed as one of three acceptable backgrounds rather than the core function.
The three qualification tracks (Export Control Expert, Science & Technology Expert, Data Scientist/AI Implementer) are each optional — candidates need experience in at least 2 of the 3. All technology skills (R, SQL, Git, LLMs, APIs) appear exclusively within the optional Data Scientist track and are therefore marked preferred.
MS Word, PowerPoint, and Excel appear under the hard 'Overall Minimum Requirements' section and are marked required.
A STEM Ph.D. is listed as 'preferred' within the Science & Technology track, not as a standalone hard requirement. The hard degree gate is a Bachelor's degree with 10 years of relevant experience.
The posting states 'Eligible for a Top-Secret Clearance with SCI eligibility' as a minimum requirement, with a current TS clearance preferred — this is treated as a TS/SCI gate.
U.S. Citizenship is explicitly required as a condition of holding the clearance.
Requires a TS/SCI clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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