Mission Systems Engineer

Cruz Associates, Inc. is looking for a Mission Systems Engineer to join our team at Fort Eustis, VA.

Duties: 

• Generating reports, procedures, plans, and other documentation as required in 

support of the mission of the TDD-SID. Submittal of these documents shall be in draft 

form and shall not include the Contractor name / organization. The draft submittals shall 

be measured against technical competence, timely submittal, and overall 

completeness/fulfillment of the effort/requirement. 

• Performing engineering studies/analyses relating to the design, integration, or 

testing of components. Apply these studies/analyses and engineering models as 

applicable towards associated aviation platforms and support systems. Additionally, 

these may be utilized for the development of requirements definitions, system 

architecture, software, and hardware designs. 

• Conducting test preparation and execution or test-related activities for various 

R&D activities of the TDD-SID. Aid in developing and writing test plans, test reports, and 

test execution of tests IAW approved test plans and procedures. Examples of testing 

shall include but not limited to; material testing, sub-component and full system 

checkout, and environmental testing (temperature, altitude, humidity, vibration, and 

shock testing) IAW military and other appropriate engineering standards. 

• Planning for future efforts, monitoring of program execution, and documenting 

program results. Support organizing and conducting meetings, assembling communities 

of interest, and documenting meeting results. 

• Researching areas relevant to existing and future military systems. Ability to 

support and present results through white papers, technical interchange meetings, and 

Government approved conferences/briefings. 

• Developing modeling and simulation system environments, system 

architectures, and system verification plans for various R&D activities of the SID. 

• Providing systems engineering and analysis support in the definition of 

technical performance measures used in test and evaluation, and for post-test data 

collection and analysis. Examples include but are not limited to subsystem or system 

level simulation evaluation, human-in-the-loop evaluation or field testing of multiple 

aircraft types, or representative avionics, mission computers, sensors, or weapons 

system. 

Education and experience requirements:

• B.S. Degree  In the field of Aerospace, Computer, Electrical, Mechanical, or Systems Engineering 

from an ABET accredited program including differential and integral calculus, electrical 

fields and circuits, and other comparable engineering science or physics; and 

Minimum of eight years of experience with the generation of test plans, analysis, and 

reports specific to aviation and/or R&D programs.

• Ability to present these findings at 

technical interchange meetings and senior level briefings; and 

Minimum of eight years of experience with Modeling and Simulation theory and 

implementation of testing environments.