What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Missile Defense Architecture Engineer position at Modern Technology Solutions, Inc. (MTSI)?
MTSI is seeking to hire a Senior Missile Defense Architecture Engineer to provide technical support to the Missile Defense Agency on the MDA Technical, Engineering, Advisory and Management Support (TEAMS)-Next Specialized Engineering Analyses (SEA) contract.
The unique, highly qualified SEA Team is critical to ensuring the MDA can rapidly develop and deploy missile defense capabilities to defeat advanced missile threats by aggressively pursuing advanced concepts and technologies for leap-ahead capability in directed energy, hypersonic missile defense, radiation hardened electronics, space-based sensors, and Israeli defense systems.
The SEA Team provides comprehensive Missile Defense System test analyses, future Missile Defense System architecture modeling and design, advanced technology analyses, and specialized engineering support to improve the development, testing, and fielding of technical capabilities that are also cybersecure and tamper-proof.
This position will support the office of the MDA Chief Architect and join a team developing and employing Benchmark, a performance modeling tool used for concept exploration and evaluation. This team increases the capability of the Missile Defense Agency to envision and define a future architecture that will enable our nation to stay ahead of adversary threat developments to ensure the safety of our nation and its allies globally.
Duties Include
The unique, highly qualified SEA Team is critical to ensuring the MDA can rapidly develop and deploy missile defense capabilities to defeat advanced missile threats by aggressively pursuing advanced concepts and technologies for leap-ahead capability in directed energy, hypersonic missile defense, radiation hardened electronics, space-based sensors, and Israeli defense systems.
The SEA Team provides comprehensive Missile Defense System test analyses, future Missile Defense System architecture modeling and design, advanced technology analyses, and specialized engineering support to improve the development, testing, and fielding of technical capabilities that are also cybersecure and tamper-proof.
This position will support the office of the MDA Chief Architect and join a team developing and employing Benchmark, a performance modeling tool used for concept exploration and evaluation. This team increases the capability of the Missile Defense Agency to envision and define a future architecture that will enable our nation to stay ahead of adversary threat developments to ensure the safety of our nation and its allies globally.
Duties Include
- Maintain awareness of performance assessments of the Missile Defense System at the full system level and among contributing weapon systems and updating records on any present or future capability gaps that will drive future development efforts.
- Contribute to architecture planning, requirements definition, and development activities at the enterprise level supporting strategic and regional architecture.
- Develop analysis scripts using MATLAB and/or Python to build new capabilities within the Benchmark M&S environment to support trade study analyses for future concepts.
- US Citizenship and a secret level security clearance is required.
- Bachelor's degree at minimum from an accredited college or University.
- 7 years working on missile defense-related or other complex, large DoD program/project or industry equivalent.
- Must possess excellent oral and written communication skills and critical thinking abilities.
- Must be capable of working independently and within teams to solve complex problems.
- Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field such as engineering, physics, or math.
- Experience producing analysis tools using MATLAB and/or Python or a similar scripting language.
- Experience or knowledge of the Benchmark M&S environment.
- Familiarity with one or more elements of the Missile Defense System or MDA.