Senior Electrical Engineer

ironmountainsolutions; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

IronMountain Solutions in Huntsville, AL seeks a Senior Electrical Engineer to support Space and Missile Defense CoE. You will document complex SoS architectures, evaluate ECPs, and liaise with government leaders and warfighters to ensure readiness and compliant system upgrades.

The role emphasizes strict configuration management, baselining, and participation in technical reviews. A US Secret clearance is required, relocation negotiable, and travel ~10%.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in a relevant engineering field.
• 10+ years of relevant experience in defense or space systems.
• Experience with military configuration management processes (SAE EIA-649C, MIL-HDBK-61A).

Responsibilities

• Document complex system-of-systems (SoS) architectures, sensors, effectors, command and control (C2) nodes, and training networks.
• Evaluate Engineering Change Proposals (ECPs) to analyze operational impacts, interoperability risks, and performance degradation across the system network.
• Act as the technical liaison between the engineering team, government program leadership, independent testing agencies, and warfighters executing the mission.
• Participate in joint technical reviews, test events, and readiness assessments to ensure system upgrades align with user needs.
• Formulate, establish, and enforce hardware, software, and firmware configuration baselines across operational and training variations.
• Serve as a core technical guide for the Configuration Control Board (CCB), helping government stakeholders evaluate technical variations and manage configuration risk.
• Execute formal Functional Configuration Audits (FCAs) and Physical Configuration Audits (PCAs) to verify system delivery builds mirror authorized technical data packages.
• Manage comprehensive technical data repositories, ensuring all baseline changes are thoroughly documented and tracked.
• Requires approximately 10% travel.

Skills

Configuration management

Military program office

Communication skills

C2 systems

Tactical data links

Education

Master's degree

Job description

Senior Electrical Engineer

Work Location: Huntsville, AL

Schedule: Full Time - 40 hours per week; 8 hours per day in office (remote work not authorized)

Relocation: Negotiable

Senior Electrical Engineer provides Space and Missile Defense Center of Excellence (CoE) with professional engineering, technical and programmatic assistance to support efforts in development of a NCR-IADS MIC. Advisory and assistance services may include advisory assistance support in; vulnerability and risk assessment and mitigation; project justification and defense; program planning; evaluation and analyses of programs, projects, budgets and performance; and project execution, transition and commercialization. This also includes providing programmatic support in the development and preparation of acquisition and procurement documents. These services are comprehensively categorized as Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) support services. As such, SETA support must expeditiously acquire the fundamental understanding of CoE's mission support to the National Capital Regions Integrated Air Defense systems overall and respective Management and Integration offices' mission, practices, policies, and procedures; and respond professionally and promptly to mission needs within a demanding, challenging, and evolving environment.

Job Responsibilities

• Document complex system-of-systems (SoS) architectures, sensors, effectors, command and control (C2) nodes, and training networks.
• Evaluate Engineering Change Proposals (ECPs) to analyze operational impacts, interoperability risks, and performance degradation across the system network.
• Act as the technical liaison between the engineering team, government program leadership, independent testing agencies, and the warfighters executing the mission.
• Participate in joint technical reviews, test events, and readiness assessments to ensure system upgrades align with user needs.
• Formulate, establish, and enforce hardware, software, and firmware configuration baselines across operational and training variations.
• Serve as a core technical guide for the Configuration Control Board (CCB), helping government stakeholders evaluate technical variations and manage configuration risk.
• Execute formal Functional Configuration Audits (FCAs) and Physical Configuration Audits (PCAs) to verify system delivery builds mirror authorized technical data packages.
• Manage comprehensive technical data repositories, ensuring all baseline changes are thoroughly documented and tracked.
• Requires approximately 10% travel.

Education and General experience

Employee must have a master's degree and 10+ years of relevant experience.

Key Skills and Qualifications

• Blending technical systems design with formal configuration management practices.
• Communication Skills: Exceptional interpersonal skills with a demonstrated ability to brief complex technical concepts to military operators, test communities, and civilian program leadership.
• CM Standards: Familiarity with standard military configuration management processes, including SAE EIA-649C and MIL-HDBK-61A.
• Prior experience working directly within a military program office environment or supporting Army/Joint Air and Missile Defense (AMD) systems.
• Familiarity with tactical data links, multi-domain sensors, or command and control (C2) nodes utilized in air defense networks.

Security Clearance

Must currently hold or be eligible to obtain a U.S. Secret security clearance. Per federal requirements, only U.S. citizens are eligible for this level of clearance.

IronMountain Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer