What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Program Engineer - Electronic Warfare position at Odyssey Consulting?
Position Summary
Odyssey has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Acquisition Program Electronic Warfare Engineer supporting the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center at Eglin AFB, Florida. This position provides the knowledge and experience to efficiently and effectively deliver weapons engineering capabilities in support of the acquisition process.
Responsibilities
Duties may include, but are not limited to:
- Provide full-spectrum engineering and technical support across all phases of the DoD acquisition life cycle.
- Define, analyze, and translate requirements into system-level designs, architectures, interfaces, and documentation.
- Conduct engineering reviews, audits, trade studies, AoAs, system effectiveness assessments, and risk analyses.
- Develop technical artifacts including SEPs, design review materials, system specs, and program documentation.
- Support integration, verification/validation, configuration management, and life‑cycle sustainment planning.
- Evaluate proposals, system modifications, training system requirements, simulators, and technical feasibility.
- Perform cost, schedule, producibility, reliability, maintainability, and life‑cycle cost analyses.
- Conduct simulation studies for armament systems and model system/component performance.
- Provide source‑selection technical advising, milestone documentation development, and program readiness assessments.
- Support FMS, program management, risk activities, engineering IPTs, and overall system‑level technical oversight.
- Review and analyze system concepts and requirements baselines.
- Apply Electronic Warfare (EW) engineering expertise across radar systems, threat simulations, RF propagation, signal processing, EW modeling, test planning, and verification.
Qualifications
Minimum Required Qualifications:
Citizenship: Must be a US Citizen
Clearance: Current Top Secret clearance
Education and experience:
- Bachelor of Science degree in related discipline and 20 years of relevant experience; OR Master of Science degree in related discipline and 15 years of relevant experience; OR PhD in related discipline and 5 years of relevant experience
- Experience supporting DoD acquisition programs or similar engineering environments
Preferred Qualifications
- Undergraduate and/or graduate engineering degree from a college or university with an Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET) accredited engineering program.
- Experience with armament systems (air-to-air, air-to-surface munitions, missiles, or related systems)
- Knowledge of DoD acquisition lifecycle processes and DoDI 5000 series
Additionally, the successful candidate will demonstrate the following:
Technical Skills
- Requirements definition, analysis, traceability, and management (DOORS or similar)
- Architecture design, system integration, implementation, and interface management
- Verification & validation (V&V) and transition planning
- Configuration management and technical documentation development
- Risk management, technical problem‑solving, and decision analysis
- Modeling tools such as SysML or similar modeling environments
- DoD acquisition lifecycle knowledge, including DoDI 5000 series compliance
- Experience supporting system development, integration, sustainment, and readiness assessments
- Conducting AoAs, trade studies (performance, cost, reliability, maintainability, producibility, schedule)
- Technical review participation (SRR, PDR, CDR, TIMs, MRAs) and artifact development
- Proposal analysis for feasibility, compatibility, and cost effectiveness
- Knowledge of armament systems (munitions, missiles, air‑to‑air/air‑to‑surface systems)
- Electronic Warfare (EW) engineering, including RF propagation, radar systems, signal processing, transmitter/receiver/antenna design
- EW modeling & simulation development, EW model V/V, threat system simulation design
- Flight test methods, hardware evaluation, and system performance validation
Interpersonal Skills
- Ability to operate independently and as part of a multidisciplinary engineering team
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to support complex, mission-critical programs
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
Additional Information
Location: Eglin AFB, FL
Travel: Travel may be required per the customer's discretion.
Work Environment: Onsite
9/80 work schedule option may be available
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Company Overview
Odyssey is a world-class technical, engineering, and integration company serving the warfighting ecosystem with airborne integration, ISR, C2, and warfighter readiness capabilities. Odyssey meets the military’s operational needs by integrating layered defense systems from equipment, technology, and services to data, information, and business operations. We streamline defense acquisition and sustainment, engineering the technical battlefield with domain-specific proficiency to ensure lethality. Odyssey is dedicated to excellent contract execution, peak organizational performance, and fostering a workplace built on employee care.
Odyssey is proud to live out our core values of commitment, ambition, and respect in our work and communities through OdysseyCares, a philanthropic group focused on giving back through direct donations, an employer match program, and volunteering events.
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