Threat Systems Architect & Customer Liaison

Sigma Defense; Red Stone (GA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 147,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Dental and Vision Insurance

Medical Insurance with HSA, FSA, andDF

Life and AD&D coverage

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

401(k) Plan with Company Matching

PTO and holidays

Educational Assistance

Highly Competitive Salary

Job summary

Sigma Defense is seeking a Threat Systems Subject Matter Expert (SME) to serve as a technical and operational authority on threat systems, threat representation, and their application within the test and training community. The SME translates ambiguous requirements into defined technical solutions, guiding from concept through delivery in collaboration with intelligence, engineering, and training teams.

The role requires TS/SCI clearance eligibility, 10+ years in threat-related disciplines, and

Qualifications

• 10+ years of extensive professional experience with threat systems, intelligence analysis, threat characterization, threat representation, or related technical disciplines.
• Significant background supporting or working within the Intelligence Community.
• Strong technical understanding of Radio Frequency (RF) systems and their application to threat systems and threat representation.
• Demonstrated understanding of threat representation requirements within Department of Defense test, evaluation, experimentation, and/or training environments.
• Ability to interpret intelligence and technical information and translate it into practical, executable threat representation requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to take incomplete, ambiguous, or poorly defined customer requirements and develop technically sound solutions.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the organization's Subject Matter Expert for threat systems, threat representation, and associated test and training applications.
• Apply extensive Intelligence Community experience and threat knowledge to ensure threat representations are technically credible, operationally relevant, and appropriately aligned with customer objectives.
• Provide technical expertise regarding RF systems, emitters, threat characteristics, effects, capabilities, limitations, and representative threat environments.
• Understand the relationship between intelligence-derived threat information and the development of appropriate threat representations for test, evaluation, experimentation, and training activities.
• Serve as the primary liaison between customers requesting threat support and organizations responsible for developing, providing, integrating, or operating threat representations.
• Engage customers to identify the underlying operational or technical objective when requirements are incomplete, ambiguous, or not fully defined.
• Translate complex or obscure customer requests into clear, actionable technical requirements and recommended solutions.
• Evaluate available threat representation capabilities and recommend the most appropriate solution based on customer objectives, technical requirements, test or training conditions, schedule, and available resources.
• Coordinate threat support requirements from initial customer engagement through planning, technical coordination, execution, and final delivery of the threat product or capability.
• Facilitate technical discussions among intelligence professionals, engineers, program managers, test personnel, operators, leadership, and other stakeholders.
• Communicate complex threat and RF concepts in a manner appropriate for audiences ranging from highly technical personnel to senior leadership and non-technical customers.
• Identify technical, programmatic, or operational gaps that could affect the fidelity or effectiveness of threat representation and recommend appropriate mitigation strategies.
• Develop and deliver technical reports, threat assessments, recommendations, briefings, presentations, and other documentation supporting customer and organizational requirements.
• Participate in technical interchange meetings, planning conferences, test and training working groups, program reviews, and customer engagements.
• Maintain awareness of evolving threat systems, technologies, capabilities, and intelligence assessments relevant to current and future test and training requirements.
• Establish and maintain strong working relationships across the Intelligence Community, test and evaluation organizations, training organizations, threat providers, engineering organizations, and supported customer activities.

Skills

Threat systems

RF systems

Intelligence Community experience

Technical leadership

Communication skills

Stakeholder engagement

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Tools

Threat modeling tools

RF measurement equipment

Job description

Sigma Defense is seeking a Threat Systems Subject Matter Expert (SME) to serve as a technical and operational authority on threat systems, threat representation, and their application within the test and training community. The SME translates ambiguous requirements into defined technical solutions, guiding from concept through delivery in collaboration with intelligence, engineering, and training teams.

The role requires TS/SCI clearance eligibility, 10+ years in threat-related disciplines, and