Senior Associate

Company: CRA International, Inc.
Location: Oakland, CA
Posted on: December 23, 2016

Job Description:

Senior Associate for Charles River Associates in Oakland, CA to work with

legal counsel to develop strategies to create solutions for complex

business problems, while providing economic analysis for clients. Plan and

manage the execution of significant sub-tasks on financial analytical

projects for diverse clients of the Competition Practice. Conceptualize and

analyze issues, determining the direction of a wide variety of subordinate

team members' analytical tasks. Identify and design analytic tasks for

junior associates and contribute to the development of overall analytic

framework for projects that involve analysis. Research of a variety of

economic issues. Maintain relationships with client representatives to

communicate developments and present results internally. Manage the

preparation of research/analytical reports or presentations. Direct project

planning and budget management efforts. Provide training and technical

supervision to junior associates, including review of their analyses and

providing coaching/mentorship/direction. Apply industry knowledge to

project work and identify business opportunities to add value by sharing

acquired knowledge. Contribute to business development efforts and draft

client proposals with other managerial staff. Requires Doctorate (Ph.D.)

degree in Industrial Organization, Applied Micro Econometrics, Labor,

Management, Economics, or related field (will accept foreign equivalent)

plus 1 year of experience assessing and defining strategic objectives and

action plans for statistical model building and economic programming. Or,

in the alternative, Masters degree in Industrial Organization, Applied

Micro Econometrics, Labor, Management, Economics, or related field (will

accept foreign equivalent) plus 3 years of experience assessing and

defining strategic objectives and action plans for statistical model

building and economic programming. Also requires: demonstrated expertise

(DE) modeling multi-stage limited dependent variable models with serially

correlated errors and state-dependent variables -- including state-

dependent binomial and trinomial probit models -- and deriving models’

objective functions and subsequent maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) or

generalized method of moments (GMM) using Matlab, R, Stata and aML; DE

using numerical methods to simulate the outcomes of auctions and game-

theoretic dynamic models with strategic interactions, and semi/non-

parametric econometric techniques to estimate the parameters of such models

using Matlab, Python and R; DE solving complex linear programming models

using advanced global solvers -- including genetic algorithm and simulated

annealing -- programmed in Matlab and AMPL/Knitro; DE performing

computational analyses in the clustered Linux/Unix environment,

parallel/distributed programming, and scientific programming at the GPU

level using CUDA; and DE analyzing dynamic and quickly evolving high

technology industries -- including the mobile wireless industry -- and

modeling the competition for regulated inputs -- including spectrum

licenses -- used by such industries. Send resume to mdesai@crai.com, and

list Job Code: 56 in Subject Line. EOE.

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