Sr. Systems Engineer - Modeling & Simulation Lead

RTX•Tucson, AZ

11h•Onsite

About The Position

The Processing, Guidance and Controls (PG&C) Center within the Systems Engineering and Test Capabilities Directorate consists of Guidance, Navigation, and Control; Signal Processing; and Modeling and Simulation disciplines for Effectors. The PG&C Center is hiring a Sr. Systems Engineer - Modeling & Simulation Lead to provide simulated environments for testing of missile effectors through 6DOF modeling, scene modeling, and hardware modeling while testing software in simulation capabilities. As the Sr. Systems Engineer - Modeling & Simulation Lead you will serve as current Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis lead, having ownership of development and execution of a Naval Power program. This position is an onsite role based in Tucson, AZ.

Requirements

Typically requires a Bachelor’s in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 5 years of prior relevant experience
Experience on a missile program
Experience designing, developing, and/or validating Simulations to Government standards
Experience with object oriented languages and other languages such as C, C++, and Python in a Linux environment
Experience with design and analysis for 6DOF simulations
Experience leading others in technical and/or functional capacities within an engineering environment
Experience with Design of Experiments and High Processor Computing resources
Current and active U.S. government issued Secret Security Clearance is required with the ability to obtain program access after start.
U.S. citizenship is required

Nice To Haves

An Advanced Degree in Electrical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Optical Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or Mathematics
Experience using MATLAB and/or Python for evaluation and analysis of data sets
Experience using HPC Management tools such as SLURM

Responsibilities

Act as a recognized Modeling, Simulation and Analysis subject matter expert responsible for the budget, schedule, development, execution, and completion of complex program objectives.
Develop and use credible simulation models to estimate system and sub-system level performance for a myriad of systems and provide pre and post flight test predictions.
Participate in production, engineering, and field-test environments to test, verify, and validate requirements for system performance requirements.
Collaborate in all development phases from proposals to live-fire testing, making improvements to processes and providing signal processing expertise for BOEs, design reviews, peer reviews, and technical briefings to internal and external customers.
Lead, or be able to lead, a technical team, mentor engineers, and/or manage an engineering project.