Principal Engineer

Chenega Corporation; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Chenega MIOS at Redstone Arsenal, AL is seeking a Principal Engineer to provide engineering oversight for target system payloads and countermeasures in support of Missile Defense Agency missions.

The role acts as a technical anchor from System Requirements through Product Acceptance, collaborating with cost analysts, schedulers, and multiple teams to ensure timely delivery and rigorous assessments.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in STEM.
• 12+ years supporting missile defense or large-scale DoD programs.
• Active DoD Secret clearance.
• Successfully pass background and drug screening.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical oversight of payloads and countermeasure development.
• Review prime contractor designs, plans, and test procedures.
• Analyze target instrumentation layouts and testing methods.
• Support milestone reviews and cross‑agency coordination.

Skills

Program Execution

Adaptability

Multitasking

Travel

Education

Master's degree in STEM

Job description

Summary

Principal Engineer

Redstone Arsenal, AL

Are you ready to enhance your skills and build your career in a rapidly evolving business climate? Are you looking for a career where professional development is embedded in your employer’s core culture? If so, Chenega Military, Intelligence & Operations Support (MIOS) could be the place for you! Join our team of professionals who support large-scale government operations by leveraging cutting‑edge technology and take your career to the next level!

Venturi, LLC A Chenega Company has an exciting career opportunity for a Principal Engineer who will provide engineering oversight for target system payloads and countermeasure development in support of the Missile Defense Agency’s missions. This individual will act as a trusted advisor to the program office, delivering critical assessments of prime contractor designs, technical plans, and target instrumentation layouts. Serving as a technical anchor during major program milestones—from System Requirements through Product Acceptance—, this Engineer will seamlessly collaborate across multiple organizations, modeling teams, cost analysts, and schedulers to ensure items are delivered accurately and on time.

Responsibilities

• Engineering Oversight & Design Assessment
  • Expert Advisory: Serve as the technical expert on payload and countermeasure requirements development, analysis, design, qualification, and fielding.
  • Independent Evaluation: Review and provide assessments of prime contractor designs, plans, reports, and technical procedures.
  • Instrumentation Analysis: Evaluate target instrumentation requirements, physical layouts, component selection, and testing methodologies
• Program Milestone & Lifecycle Support
  • Milestone Reviews: Provide technical evaluation and engineering support during all major program milestones (including SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, FRB, MRB, and PAR).
  • Cross-Agency Coordination: Answer technical inquiries from external MDA organizations and lead multi-disciplinary Technical Interchange Meetings (TIMs).
• Program Management & Operations Collaboration
  • Cost Estimation: Provide technical assessments to the cost analysis team to ensure accurate program management budget estimates.
  • Schedule Alignment: Partner with the program scheduler to track delivery deadlines and proactively keep leadership advised of status.
• Perform other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• Master's degree in STEM
• 12+ years supporting missile defense or large-scale, complex DoD programs
• Active DoD Secret clearance
• Successfully pass background and drug screening

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of IR/RCS signatures for flight objects and countermeasures.
• Experience with material properties and material property measurements.
• Knowledge of real-world threat systems and how they impact target designs.
• Have an understanding of MDA flight test requirements and apply that to the payload hardware development.
• Technical proposal development and evaluation.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Program Execution: Experience managing end-to-end program lifecycles, including the development, testing, and fielding of complex systems.
• Adaptability: Thrive in a fast-paced environment where priorities change quickly.
• Multitasking: Handle multiple urgent tasks at once without losing focus.
• Travel: Able to support travel requests up to 20% of the time.

How you’ll grow

At Chenega MIOS, our professional development plan focuses on helping our team members at every level of their careers to identify and use their strengths to do their best work every day. From entry-level employees to senior leaders, we believe there’s always room to learn.

We offer opportunities to help sharpen skills in addition to hands‑on experience in the global, fast‑changing business world. From on-the-job learning experiences to formal development programs, our professionals have a variety of opportunities to continue to grow throughout their careers.

Benefits

At Chenega MIOS, we know that great people make a great organization. We value our team members and offer them a broad range of benefits.

Learn more about what working at Chenega MIOS can mean for you.

Chenega MIOS’s culture

Our positive and supportive culture encourages our team members to do their best work every day. We celebrate individuals by recognizing their uniqueness and offering them the flexibility to make daily choices that can help them be healthy, centered, confident, and aware. We offer well‑being programs and continuously look for new ways to maintain a culture where we excel and lead healthy, happy lives.

Corporate citizenship

Chenega MIOS is led by a purpose to make an impact that matters. This purpose defines who we are and extends to relationships with our clients, our team members, and our communities. We believe that business has the power to inspire and transform. We focus on education, giving, skill‑based volunteerism, and leadership to help drive positive social impact in our communities.

Learn more about Chenega’s impact on the world.

Chenega MIOS News-

Chenega MIOS News- https://chenegamios.com/news/

Tips from your Talent Acquisition Team

We want job seekers exploring opportunities at Chenega MIOS to feel prepared and confident. To help you with your research, we suggest you review the following links:

Chenega MIOS web site - www.chenegamios.com

Glassdoor - https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Chenega-MIOS-EI_IE369514.11,23.htm

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/1472684/

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/chenegamios/

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