C-UAS Specialist: Training, Integration & Evaluation

Constellis; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 55,000 - 83,000; Part time

Job summary

Constellis seeks a C-UAS Technical Expert to plan, integrate, execute, and evaluate counter-UAS activities across the United States and abroad, collaborating with customers, instructors, engineers, and range personnel. Roles may include trainer, integrator, spectrum manager, or evaluator based on experience.

Responsibilities span training, testing, and exercises, with emphasis on layered-defense concepts, sensor fusion, and mission-specific solutions.

Qualifications

• Have at least three years of relevant C-UAS, air defense, electronic warfare, radar, RF, UAS, or related experience.
• Demonstrate knowledge of layered C-UAS defense and the integration of multiple detection, tracking, identification, command-and-control, and defeat capabilities.
• Strong written and verbal communication with military, government, law enforcement, commercial, technical, and executive audiences.
• Willingness to travel and work in classroom, field, range, and austere environments.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a technical and operational C-UAS subject matter expert during training, testing and evaluation, technology demonstrations, exercises, site assessments, and customer engagements.
• Apply the detect, track, identify, decide, and defeat methodology when planning, evaluating, and supporting layered C-UAS operations.
• Support the employment and integration of radar, passive RF, electronic warfare, EO/IR, acoustic, command-and-control, communications, kinetic defeat, and non-kinetic defeat capabilities.
• Evaluate C-UAS system performance, operational suitability, capabilities, limitations, coverage, interoperability, and effectiveness against representative UAS threats.
• Support layered-defense planning based on the threat, terrain, airspace, electromagnetic environment, mission requirements, protected assets, and available authorities.
• Advise customers and operational personnel on C-UAS system employment, sensor placement, coverage considerations, engagement procedures, and tactical integration.
• Operate, configure, inspect, test, and troubleshoot assigned C-UAS systems and associated equipment within individual qualifications and authorization.
• Support tactical scenarios involving UAS detection, tracking, identification, classification, decision-making, reporting, and authorized defeat procedures.
• Support C-UAS battle drills, crew drills, command-and-control processes, reporting procedures, and coordination between sensors, operators, decision-makers, and defeat capabilities.
• Assist with the development, validation, and refinement of C-UAS concepts of operation, SOPs, tactics, techniques, procedures, training materials, test plans, and evaluation criteria.
• Support realistic threat replication and Red Force activities using representative UAS platforms, flight profiles, tactics, payloads, and operational scenarios.
• Provide technical observations, operational analysis, after-action feedback, and recommendations following training, testing, demonstrations, and exercises.
• Maintain accurate system records, test data, training documentation, equipment accountability, configuration information, and operational reports.
• Coordinate with customers, instructors, range control, safety personnel, UAS operators, vendors, engineers, spectrum personnel, and other Constellis staff.
• Ensure activities comply with applicable FAA, FCC, DoD, customer, range, airspace, spectrum, safety, security, and information-protection requirements.
• Maintain technical proficiency on assigned systems, emerging UAS threats, evolving C-UAS technologies, and current operational practices.

Skills

Communication skills

Doc interpretation

Multi-stakeholder collaboration

Travel readiness

Problem solving

Security clearance (preferred)

Education

High school diploma or GED

Job description

Constellis seeks a C-UAS Technical Expert to plan, integrate, execute, and evaluate counter-UAS activities across the United States and abroad, collaborating with customers, instructors, engineers, and range personnel. Roles may include trainer, integrator, spectrum manager, or evaluator based on experience.

Responsibilities span training, testing, and exercises, with emphasis on layered-defense concepts, sensor fusion, and mission-specific solutions.