Missile Defense System Architecture Engineer

Avion Solutions•Huntsville, AL

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About The Position

Avion Solutions Inc., an employee-owned company, seeks candidates for a Missile Defense System Architecture Engineer to support the Missile Defense Agency (MDA). This position is based in Huntsville, AL.

Requirements

Master's Degree in a STEM Field with 12+ years of experience in missile defense-related or other complex, large DoD program/project.
Deep understanding of the current MDS architecture and future concepts
Experience in modeling, assessment, and evaluation of future missile defense architectures
Experience with MATLAB
Must be a U.S. Citizen and have an active Secret clearance with the ability to obtain a TS/SCI..
Must be able to travel up to 15% of the time.

Nice To Haves

Active TS/SCI Clearance.
Experience with the definition and use of 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.
Experience with HPC Systems, Python, and Git.
Experience with BMD Benchmark.
Experience supporting systems engineering-related architecture design activities.
Ability to perform technology assessment & analysis and provide insight on the utility of potentially useful technologies.
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 serving as a key advisor and collaborating on products that may go outside the Agency, such as DoD, Services, Combatant Commands, industry experts, etc.

Responsibilities

Assess MDS threats, capability gaps, challenges, needs, and opportunities to develop potential system mitigations and capability evolutions at the architecture level.
Support modeling & simulation (M&S) efforts related to the above, including analysis efforts on the DoD High-Performance Computing (HPC) system.
Develop analysis plans, execute M&S to implement those plans, assess analysis results, prepare analysis briefs/reports, and provide reviews of analysis products.
Facilitate the definition/implementation 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.
Other duties as assigned.

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