Senior Systems & Mission Engineer: Modeling & Wargaming

Va Tech Foundation; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Virginia Tech Applied Research Corporation seeks a Senior Systems & Mission Engineer in Arlington, VA to support modeling, simulation, wargaming, and related systems engineering in the Decision Science Division. The role develops automated analytical workflows, connects mission artifacts to simulation results, and produces traceable decision products.

The candidate will design prototypes, collaborate with data scientists and AI engineers, and help scale toward production while ensuring

Qualifications

• Ten years of progressively responsible experience in systems engineering or related technical work with defense/national security missions.
• Ability to turn requirements and model logic into a functioning prototype and proven software artifacts.
• Experience with Python, AWS, and coding workflows; capable of independent technical delivery.

Responsibilities

• Translate sponsor questions and operational needs into mission objectives, study boundaries, requirements, assumptions, and performance measures.
• Develop mission decompositions, CONOPS, and scenarios; organize linked mission artifacts and constraints.
• Define models, decision logic, data constraints, and evaluation criteria; translate into working prototypes and specifications.
• Design, test, debug, document, and demonstrate proof-of-concept models and analytical applications.
• Use Python to prepare data, automate workflows, configure and run models, and examine results; perform sensitivity analyses.

Skills

Python

AWS

Systems thinking

Wargaming

Analytical modeling

Team collaboration

Communication with sponsors

Education

Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering or related field

Experience in defense/national security missions

Tools

Git

Jupyter Notebooks

APIs

Job description

Virginia Tech Applied Research Corporation seeks a Senior Systems & Mission Engineer in Arlington, VA to support modeling, simulation, wargaming, and related systems engineering in the Decision Science Division. The role develops automated analytical workflows, connects mission artifacts to simulation results, and produces traceable decision products.

The candidate will design prototypes, collaborate with data scientists and AI engineers, and help scale toward production while ensuring