Acquisition Program Engineer- Electronic Warfare

DCS Corp; Town of Florida (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

DCS Corp is seeking a Senior Acquisition Program Electronic Warfare Engineer to support the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center at Eglin AFB, Florida. The role delivers weapons engineering capabilities across the DoD acquisition process.

Responsibilities include defining requirements, performing system-level design, conducting trade studies, and providing technical oversight for EW systems, radar, and threat simulations. Requires strong DoD experience and TS clearance.

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship required.
• Top Secret clearance.
• Bachelor of Science degree (or Masters/ PhD with years of experience) in related discipline.

Responsibilities

• Provide full-spectrum engineering support across 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 requirements, simulators, and technical feasibility.
• Perform cost, schedule, producibility, reliability, maintainability, and life-cycle cost analyses.
• Conduct simulation studies for armament systems and model performance.
• Provide source-selection technical advising and program readiness assessments.
• Support FMS, program management, IPTs, and overall system-level technical oversight.
• Review and analyze system concepts and baselines.
• Apply EW engineering across radar systems, RF propagation, signal processing, EW modeling, and test planning.

Skills

DoD lifecycle knowledge

Requirements management

Architecture design

V&V

Configuration management

Risk analysis

SysML modeling

DoDI 5000 series

ARMament systems understanding

EW engineering fundamentals

Education

Bachelor of Science in related discipline

Job description

DCS has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Acquisition Program Electronic Warfare Engineer supporting the Air Force Life Cycle Management Centerat Eglin AFB, Florida. This position provides the knowledge and experience to efficiently and effectively deliver weapons engineering capabilities in support of the acquisition process.

Essential Job Functions:

• 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.

Required Skills:

Due to the sensitivity of customer related requirements, US Citizenship is required.

Current Top Secret clearance.

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 with:

• 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
• Experience supporting DoD acquisition programs or similar engineering environment.

Desired Skills:

Undergraduate and/or graduate engineering degree from a college or university with anAccreditationBoardofEngineeringandTechnology(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.