Principal Engineer

Venturi • Huntsville, AL

4d • Onsite

About The Position

Principal Engineer Redstone Arsenal, AL Are you ready to enhance your skills and build your career in a rapidly evolving business climate? Are you looking for a career where professional development is embedded in your employer’s core culture? If so, Chenega Military, Intelligence & Operations Support (MIOS) could be the place for you! Join our team of professionals who support large-scale government operations by leveraging cutting-edge technology and take your career to the next level! Venturi, LLC A Chenega Company has a challenging career opportunity for a Principal Engineer who will provide engineering oversight for target system payloads and countermeasure development for the Missile Defense Agency. This Engineer will function as a trusted advisor to the program office, delivering critical assessments of prime contractor designs, technical plans, and target instrumentation layouts. You will serve as a technical anchor during major program milestones—from System Requirements through Product Acceptance—while seamlessly collaborating across multiple organizations, modeling teams, cost analysts, and schedulers to ensure accurate and timely delivery of items.

Requirements

• Master's degree in STEM and 12+ years of experience supporting missile defense or large-scale, complex DoD programs
• Active DoD Secret clearance
• Successfully pass background and drug screening
• Experience managing end-to-end program lifecycles, including the development, testing, and fielding of complex systems.
• Thrive in a fast-paced environment where priorities change quickly.
• Handle multiple urgent tasks at once without losing focus.
• Able to support travel request up to 20% of the time.

Nice To Haves

• Understanding of IR/RCS signatures for flight objects and countermeasures.
• Experience with material properties and material property measurements.
• Knowledge of real-world threat systems and how they impact target designs.
• Understand MDA flight test requirements and apply that understanding to the payload hardware development.
• Technical proposal development and evaluation.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical expert on payload and countermeasure requirements development, analysis, design, qualification, and fielding.
• Review and provide assessments of prime contractor designs, plans, reports, and technical procedures.
• Evaluate target instrumentation requirements, physical layouts, component selection, and testing methodologies.
• Provide technical evaluation and engineering support during all major program milestones (including SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, FRB, MRB, and PAR).
• Answer technical inquiries from external MDA organizations and lead multi-disciplinary Technical Interchange Meetings (TIMs).
• Provide technical assessments to the cost analysis team to ensure accurate program management budget estimates.
• Partner with the program scheduler to track delivery deadlines and proactively keep leadership advised of status.
• Perform other duties as assigned

Benefits

• professional development is embedded in their core culture
• opportunities to help sharpen skills in addition to hands-on experience in the global, fast-changing business world
• on-the-job learning experiences
• formal development programs
• well-being programs
• continuously look for new ways to maintain a culture where we excel and lead healthy, happy lives.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal