Analyst, International Market Intelligence — X-BAT (R6169)

About the role

Responsibilities

• Maintain international budget coverage. Track partner-nation defense budgets, relevant program lines, and multi-year procurement and sustainment plans for priority autonomous combat aircraft markets.
• Maintain international competitive coverage. Keep competitor profiles, competition and award trackers, product comparisons, and teaming and industrial-partnership maps current for assigned countries and regions.
• Develop integrated country and regional reads. Combine budget and competitive data into decision-ready products covering funding, timing, competitors, acquisition path, and industrial expectations for GTM and Mission Success teams.
• Work from primary sources. Collect and extract data from defense budgets, white papers, parliamentary and legislative records, procurement notices, and reputable open-source reporting, supplemented by commercial market data when available.
• Curate the knowledge base. Maintain a structured, cumulative, and queryable international budget and competitive knowledge base using AI-enabled tools for ingestion, organization, and upkeep.
• Publish on cadence and on demand. Deliver recurring updates and respond to scoped rapid-turn requests supporting pursuits, campaign reviews, proposal inputs, and leadership decisions.
• Track market developments. Monitor programs, competitions, awards, teaming, industrial partnerships, offsets, and co-production developments in assigned markets and elevate material changes.
• Support the international campaign system. Provide reliable inputs that help country and regional leads shape pursuits, identify intelligence gaps, and establish collection priorities.
• Support a culture of accountability, urgency, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• 3–6 years of relevant experience in international defense budget analysis, competitive intelligence, market research, business development analysis, or closely related work in defense or aerospace.
• Working knowledge of international defense budgets and public budget documentation, with the ability to extract useful signal from incomplete and heterogeneous sources.
• Experience conducting competitive or market analysis, including competitor profiles, market assessments, or product comparisons.
• Working familiarity with international defense acquisition and pursuit dependencies, including FMS, DCS, or hybrid pathways and associated approval, disclosure, and exportability considerations.
• Strong research, data-handling, analytic writing, and briefing skills, with the ability to produce clear products for senior and non-specialist audiences.
• Ability to manage recurring production while responding to short-notice, well-scoped internal requests.
• Experience using AI tools to organize and maintain structured, reusable knowledge resources.
• Bachelor's degree in international affairs, security studies, economics, finance, political science, business, engineering, or a related field.
• Demonstrated alignment with Shield AI core values: Do What Honor Dictates, Live as a Servant Leader, Pursue Excellence.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally as required and to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.
• Experience supporting defense business development, capture, or strategy.
• Exposure to large UAV, unmanned, or autonomous aircraft programs.
• Familiarity with offset, co-production, or industrial-participation frameworks in one or more priority markets.
• Regional expertise or language skills relevant to Europe, the Middle East, or Asia-Pacific.
• Familiarity with foreign disclosure, security cooperation, embassy or country-team coordination, or interagency advocacy.