- Huntsville, Alabama, United States
- On-site
- Full-time · Principal
- 12+ years
Provide engineering oversight for target system payloads and countermeasure development in support of the Missile Defense Agency’s missions, acting as a trusted advisor to the program office.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the technical expert on payload and countermeasure requirements development, analysis, design, qualification, and fielding
- Review and provide assessments of prime contractor designs, plans, reports, and technical procedures
- Evaluate target instrumentation requirements, physical layouts, component selection, and testing methodologies
- Provide technical evaluation and engineering support during all major program milestones (including SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, FRB, MRB, and PAR)
- Answer technical inquiries from external MDA organizations and lead multi-disciplinary Technical Interchange Meetings (TIMs)
Requirements
- Master's degree in STEM
- Nice to have: IR/RCS signatures for flight objects and countermeasures
- Nice to have: Material properties and material property measurements
- Nice to have: Knowledge of real-world threat systems
- Nice to have: MDA flight test requirements application