Systems Engineer – Nuclear Weapon Systems

Amentum company; Virginia, Northern (MN, KY); Hybrid; USD 126,000 - 154,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Educational reimbursement

Parental leave

Stock purchase plan

Job summary

Amentum is seeking a Systems Engineer – Employment Engineer to join our engineering team in Dahlgren, VA, supporting the Sea-Launched Cruise Missile–Nuclear (SLCM-N) Program. This position will support development, integration, analysis, and testing of advanced weapon-system capabilities and technologies.

The Employment Engineer will focus on optimizing weapon-system employment, analyzing targeting data, translating USSTRATCOM requirements into platform capabilities, and performing analysis,

Qualifications

• BS in an engineering/science/technical discipline or 5 years of related experience in lieu of degree.
• 5 years of experience supporting nuclear operations, nuclear command and control principles, strategic weapons, nuclear planning, and national-level command and control programs.
• 5 years of software engineering experience supporting real-time, software-intensive weapon/system with requirements definition activities.
• 3 years of experience in software requirements analysis, design tradeoff studies, and DOORS-based specification development.

Responsibilities

• Apply knowledge of the SLCM-N weapon system to evaluate operational impact of design choices.
• Assess impacts to USSTRATCOM, CCDRs, SWFs, operational fleet, and NC2 community.
• Analyze targeting data, mission-planning, system performance, and emerging threats.
• Support modeling and simulation for threat mitigation, survivability, and weapon effectiveness.

Skills

Software engineering

Real-time systems

Requirements analysis

Design trade studies

System integration

Security clearance eligibility

Education

BS in Engineering/Scientific/Technical discipline

Tools

DOORS

Job description

Amentum is seeking a Systems Engineer – Employment Engineer to join our engineering team in Dahlgren, VA, supporting the Sea-Launched Cruise Missile–Nuclear (SLCM-N) Program. This position will support development, integration, analysis, and testing of advanced weapon-system capabilities and technologies.

The Employment Engineer will focus on optimizing weapon-system employment, analyzing targeting data, translating USSTRATCOM requirements into platform capabilities, and performing analysis,