Principal Systems Engineer - BMD SME

Banner Defense, Inc.; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense company seeks a Principal Systems Engineer with expertise in Ballistic Missile Defense to support modeling and simulation efforts. Candidates must possess extensive experience in missile defense projects and strong analytical skills. Join a determined team dedicated to advancing the future of missile defense!

Qualifications

• 12+ years' experience in missile defense projects.
• Active Secret Clearance with the ability to obtain TS/SCI.
• Extensive experience with missile defense architectures.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate modeling and simulation for future missile defense concepts.
• Act as a subject matter expert in architecture analysis.
• Develop analysis plans and prepare reports on findings.

Skills

Modeling and Simulation

Architecture Analysis

Systems Engineering

Cyber Assessment

Technical Reporting

Education

Masters in STEM field

Tools

MATLAB

Python

Job description

Principal Systems Engineer - BMD SME

Join our team!

Be a part of our passionate and determined team on a mission to use our skills and experiences to make a difference in the defense and aerospace industry.

Position Description:

Banner Defense is in search of an amazingly talented Principal Systems Engineer - Ballistic Missile Defense Subject Matter Expert (BMD SME) to join our team! In this role you will get to facilitate the modeling, simulation, and analyses of future concepts that shape the future of the Missile Defense System (MDS) and respond to Warfighter needs.

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate the definition of future concepts for modeling, simulation, and analysis
• Act as a subject matter expert in future concept definition, architecture analyses, and reviewing preliminary results prior to delivery to customer
• Assess MDS threats, capability gaps, challenges, needs and opportunities, and develop potential system mitigations and capability revolutions and evolutions at the architecture level
• Support modeling & simulation (M&S) efforts related to the above, including analysis efforts on DoD High Performance Computing (HPC)
• Develop analysis plans, run M&S to execute the analysis plan, perform analysis on the results, prepare analysis reports, and provide reviews of analysis products

Required Skills/Experience:

• Masters in STEM field
• 12+ years' experience working on missile defense-related or other DoD program / project
• Active Secret Clearance with the ability to obtain a TS/SCI
• Extensive experience in the modeling, assessment, and evaluation of future missile defense architectures
• Deep understanding of the current MDS architecture and future concepts
• Travel Required (10%)

Desired Skills/Qualifications:

• Active TS/SCI Clearance
• Experience with the definition and use of advanced concepts and algorithms for the M&S of MDS architectures
• Experience with M&S and analysis of MDS architectures involving both directed and kinetic energy weapons and other future concepts
• Ability to develop and use MDS architecture simulations; knowledge of MATLAB and/or Python is a plus, including HPC experience and/or MBSE experience
• Experience supporting systems engineering-related architecture design activities
• Ability to perform technology assessment & analysis and provide insight on the utility of potentially useful technologies
• Experience with multidisciplinary analysis and optimization environments, including analysis of diverse physical phenomena
• Specialized MDS analysis experience in: threat characterization, trajectories, RF sensing/signatures, and/or EO/IR sensing/signatures
• Proven ability to coauthor numerous reports and provide significant contributions to MDS studies and responses to Congress
• Experience with Cyber gaps, mitigations, and future Cyber Architecture development

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