Spotstone

About Us.

SpotStone is a specialized provider of intelligence and counterintelligence expertise across government, industry, and academia. We help client organizations build their capacity to identify threats, reduce risk and protect critical assets, information, people, and mission.

• https://www.spotstone.net

About the Role

We're looking for a sharp, self-motivated analyst to support a defense industrial base (DIB) partner in addressing internal counterintelligence and supply chain risks. You'll join a seasoned team of analysts, investigators, technologists, and security professionals with your research directly feeding efforts to protect critical programs and technologies.

This is an entry-to-junior level role. We're not looking for someone who has all the answers. We're looking for someone who asks the right questions.

About You

• You believe protecting the United States' technological edge matters and you want to be part of that effort
• You are a critical thinker, understand analytic tradecraft, and are naturally curious...yet know when to surface from a rabbit hole
• You understand that consistency and discipline drive long-term impact
• You're eager to learn, take feedback, and grow within a high-performing team.

What Success Looks Like

• You answer the question asked and anticipate the questions that weren't
• You own your work and function as a genuine asset to the team, not just a task-completer
• You communicate findings clearly and can walk through your methodology, assumptions, and tradecraft with confidence

Responsibilities

• Conduct focused primary and secondary research on individuals, companies, and other entities of interest
• Produce timely, well-reasoned analytic products across a range of deadlines — from 24–48 hours to multi-week timelines

Key Qualifications

• Experience analyzing individuals, companies, and/or other types of organizations
• Ability to take/adapt to direction regarding research objectives, analytic standards, and operational security (OPSEC) protocol
• Experience delivering analytic or intelligence products
• Proficiency with open source tools, techniques and research resources
• Familiarity with closed source or subscription-based tools, or demonstrate ability to learn quickly