Job Description

What you'll do

Engineering oversight & design assessment

Expert advisory: serve as the technical expert on payload and countermeasure requirements development, analysis, design, qualification, and fielding
Independent evaluation: review and provide assessments of prime contractor designs, plans, reports, and technical procedures
Instrumentation analysis: evaluate target instrumentation requirements, physical layouts, component selection, and testing methodologies

Program milestone & lifecycle support

Milestone reviews: provide technical evaluation and engineering support during all major program milestones (including SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, FRB, MRB, and PAR)
Cross-agency coordination: answer technical inquiries from external MDA organizations and lead multi-disciplinary Technical Interchange Meetings (TIMs)

Program management & operations collaboration

Cost estimation: provide technical assessments to the cost analysis team to ensure accurate program management budget estimates
Schedule alignment: partner with the program scheduler to track delivery deadlines and proactively keep leadership advised of status

Required qualifications

Security clearance: active DoD Secret clearance
Education & experience: Master's degree in STEM and 12+ years supporting missile defense or large-scale, complex DoD programs
Program execution: experience managing end-to-end program lifecycles, including the development, testing, and fielding of complex systems
Adaptability: thrive in a fast-paced environment where priorities change quickly
Multitasking: handle multiple urgent tasks at once without losing focus
Travel: able to support travel requests up to 20% of the time

Preferred qualifications

Understanding of IR/RCS signatures for flight objects and countermeasures
Experience with material properties and material property measurements
Knowledge of real-world threat systems and how they impact target designs
Understanding of MDA flight test requirements applied to payload hardware development
Technical proposal development and evaluation

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