What are the responsibilities and job description for the Missile Defense System Architecture Engineer position at Avion Solutions, Inc.?
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 located in Huntsville, AL.
Job Responsibilities/Duties:
Job Responsibilities/Duties:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.