Principal Systems Engineer BMD SME

Avion Solutions - Huntsville, AL

- Senior

Huntsville, AL

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

Avion Solutions Inc., an employee-owned company, seeks candidates for a Principal Systems Engineer BMD SME to support the Missile Defense Agency. This position is based in Huntsville, AL.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate the definition of future concepts for modeling, simulation, and analysis.
• Act as a subject matter expert in future concept definition, architecture analyses, and reviewing preliminary results before delivery to the customer.
• Assess MDS threats, capability gaps, challenges, needs, and opportunities, and develop potential system mitigations and capability revolutions and evolutions at the architecture level.
• Support modeling & simulation (M&S) efforts related to the above, including analysis efforts on DoD High-Performance Computing (HPC).
• Develop analysis plans, run M&S to execute the analysis plan, perform analysis on the results, prepare analysis reports, and provide reviews of analysis products.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Master's Degree in STEM Field with 12+ years of experience in missile defense-related or other complex, large DoD programs/projects.
• Extensive experience in the modeling, assessment, and evaluation of future missile defense architectures.
• Deep understanding of the current MDS architecture and future concepts.
• Must be a US Citizen and maintain a DoD Secret Security Clearance.
• Must be able to travel up to 25% of the time. US travel only.

Nice-to-haves

• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Experience defining and using advanced concepts and algorithms for the M&S of MDS architectures.
• Experience with M&S and analysis of MDS architectures involving both directed and kinetic energy weapons and other future concepts.
• Ability to develop and use MDS architecture simulations; knowledge of MATLAB and/or Python is a plus, including HPC experience and/or MBSE experience.
• Experience supporting systems engineering-related architecture design activities.
• Ability to perform technology assessment & analysis and provide insight into the utility of potentially useful technologies.
• Experience with multidisciplinary analysis and optimization environments, including analysis of diverse physical phenomena.
• Specialized MDS analysis experience in: threat characterization, trajectories, RF sensing/signatures, and/or EO/IR sensing/signatures.
• Proven ability to coauthor numerous reports and provide significant contributions to MDS studies and responses to Congress.
• Experience with Cyber gaps, mitigations, and future Cyber Architecture development.
• Experience serving as a key advisor and collaborating on products that may go outside the Agency, such as DoD, Services, Combatant Commands, industry experts, etc.