Lethality Engineer

Modern Technology Solutions Inc•Huntsville, AL

About The Position

The Lethality candidate will provide and support the lethality Planning, Analysis, and Testing in support of the Army Operational Evaluation Command. This role involves regular and valuable interaction with the government through emails, VTCs, and face-to-face meetings, providing status updates, participating in TIMs, and delivering briefings, among other contractual requirements. The candidate must be self-motivated, possess strong oral and written communication skills, and be able to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic, technically advanced, team environment. The role also requires the ability to track multi-program statuses and adapt to changing/evolving milestones, along with experience in budget planning and expenditure tracking. The engineer will interface with program managers and ATEC Campaign Teams to support and promote lethality activities, schedule meetings, provide meeting minutes, service action items, and brief leadership. Preparation of technical and position papers, engineering briefs, and technical materials such as analysis, assessments, and reports is also a key function.

Requirements

Familiar with GMD, THAAD, Patriot, and AIAMD air and missile defense programs.
Understanding of LFT&E lethality and survivability requirements, planning, and evaluations.
Technical ability to run endgame lethality codes, such as PEELS and LEGS, produce output, and generate briefings and reports on findings.
General physics understanding of lethality modeling for direct hit and blast/fragmentation warheads in support of effectiveness evaluations with probability of kill determination.
Familiarity with Army Operational Evaluation plans, test designs, products and inputs.
Familiarity with sled, light-gas gun, and flight test lethality planning, debris pickup and evaluation, and post-test analysis.
Technical ability to interpret code output, identify trends, assess code stability, assess output integrity, inform code updates where needed.
Technical ability to support lethality M&S accreditation efforts and experience with V&V.
Self-motivated, possess strong oral and written communication skills, and can work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic, technically advanced, team environment.
Skill to track multi-program statuses and adapt to changing/evolving milestones.
Experience with budget planning and expenditure tracking.
Familiarity with DOE hydrocode and hydrostructural code analysis.
BS (minimum) degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Aerospace Engineering, or Physics/Math.
10+ years of direct experience in lethality modeling simulation and analysis, including VV&A and test and evaluation.
Experience must be directly related to running lethality codes and developing pre-and post-processing tools and databases to support file I/O sharing and output assessments.
Technical background and the ability to understand ballistic missile, aircraft, cruise missile, and hypersonic systems lethality.
Experience with lethality assessments for direct hit and blast/fragmentation warhead kinetic energy weapons, engaging air and missile defense threats.

Nice To Haves

MS degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Aerospace Engineering, or Physics/Math.
Top Secret Clearance Desirable.
Skilled in MS Office products.
Skilled in computer programming, PYTHON, FORTRAN, DOS macros.
Proficient in creating engagement scenarios taking system performance definitions and running in fast-running codes, such as PEELS and LEGS.
Familiarity with BRLCAD is a plus.

Responsibilities

Provide and support lethality Planning, Analysis, and Testing in support of the Army Operational Evaluation Command.
Run endgame lethality codes, such as PEELS and LEGS, produce output, and generate briefings and reports on findings.
Support lethality M&S accreditation efforts and experience with V&V.
Track multi-program statuses and adapt to changing/evolving milestones.
Interface with program managers and ATEC Campaign Teams to support and promote lethality activities.
Schedule meetings, provide meeting minutes, service action items and brief leadership.
Prepare technical and position papers, engineering briefs, and technical materials such as analysis, assessments, and reports.
Support lethality planning, debris pickup and evaluation, and post-test analysis for sled, light-gas gun, and flight tests.
Interpret code output, identify trends, assess code stability, assess output integrity, and inform code updates where needed.
Conduct lethality assessments for direct hit and blast/fragmentation warhead kinetic energy weapons, engaging air and missile defense threats.