Senior Electronic Warfare Acquisition Engineer

DCS Corporation; Eglin Air Force Base (FL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

DCS Corporation seeks a Senior Acquisition Program Electronic Warfare Engineer to support the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center at Eglin AFB, Florida. You will lead EW engineering across the DoD lifecycle, shaping radar, threat simulations, RF modeling, and verification activities.

Candidates should have DoD lifecycle experience, strong DOORS/SysML skills, and a TS clearance. Join a mission-focused program delivering critical weapons engineering capabilities.

Qualifications

• US Citizenship is required.
• Current Top Secret clearance.
• Experience with: DoD acquisition lifecycle knowledge, including DoDI 5000 series.
• 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 and technical problem solving.
• Modeling tools such as SysML or similar modeling environments.
• Experience supporting system development, integration, sustainment, and readiness assessments.
• 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).
• Electronic Warfare (EW) engineering including RF propagation, radar systems, signal processing.

Responsibilities

• Provide full-spectrum engineering 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 reviews, system specs, and program documentation.
• Support integration, verification/validation, configuration management, and lifecycle sustainment planning.
• Evaluate proposals, training system requirements, simulators, and technical feasibility.
• Perform cost, schedule, producibility, reliability, maintainability, and lifecycle cost analyses.
• Conduct simulation studies for armament systems and model system/component performance.
• Provide technical advisory, milestone documentation development, and program readiness assessments.
• Support FMS, program management, risk activities, engineering IPTs, and overall system-level oversight.
• Review and analyze system concepts and requirements baselines.
• Apply EW engineering across radar systems, threat simulations, RF propagation, signal processing, EW modeling, and test planning.

Skills

DoD acquisition lifecycle

Requirements analysis & traceability

AoAs & trade studies

System architecture design

V&V

Configuration management

RF/EW modeling

SysML modeling

Risk management

Flight test methods

Education

Bachelor of Science in related discipline

Master of Science in related discipline

PhD in related discipline

Tools

DOORS

SysML modeling tools

Job description

DCS Corporation seeks a Senior Acquisition Program Electronic Warfare Engineer to support the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center at Eglin AFB, Florida. You will lead EW engineering across the DoD lifecycle, shaping radar, threat simulations, RF modeling, and verification activities.

Candidates should have DoD lifecycle experience, strong DOORS/SysML skills, and a TS clearance. Join a mission-focused program delivering critical weapons engineering capabilities.