Senior System Engineer

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The Airborne Battle Management and Command and Control (ABMC2) department is seeking technical staff to join our energetic and diverse team of engineers, scientists, and global flight operations domain analysts in assisting our sponsors with their most critical mission problems. In the BMC2 area, we are assisting our U.S. and foreign partner Military on major upgrades to enhance effectiveness of their airborne surveillance and battle management platforms (e.g., E-3/E-7) in a contested environment to gain and retain air superiority. Some of our skill areas are sensor systems performance analysis, Operational Analysis through modeling and simulation, and the application of open system architecture approaches. A successful candidate will assist our sponsors in mission requirements analysis, technology tradeoffs, and experimentation.

In our Global Flight Operations program, we do impact assessments and develop approaches to proactively improve the integration of Civil Aviation and Military operations. One of our major technology thrusts is enhancements to enable the Air Force's Agile Combat Employment through cutting edge improvements in deployability of electronic systems.

Job Responsibilities:

• Identify operational or technical gaps in current systems and recommending mitigations for fielded or new systems in development
• Identify opportunities to apply emerging technology to the air battle management and command and control (C2) domains
• Develop and present prototypes and system models to help customers frame emerging technology trends to increase affordability, efficiency, and effectiveness
• Engage in system concept development, requirements engineering, system architecture development and evaluation, and test strategy development
• Present technical recommendations to government sponsors

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree and 5 years of related experience; or 3 years and a Master's degree; or a PhD with relevant experience who can immediately contribute at this job step
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance
• Interest and exposure to C2 systems, cross-system interoperability, networking and communications, or sensor modeling
• Excellent interpersonal, writing, communication, and briefing skills to interact with team members and sponsors.

Preferred Qualifications :

• Active Secret clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI
• Experience implementing rapid prototyping for DoD projects
• Experience with systems engineering lifecycle processes
• Expertise in simulation and analysis software tools such as MATLAB, R, AFSIM and programming languages such as C++ and Java
• Experience with Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and Digital Engineering concepts and tools
• Demonstrated experience developing DoD or FAA systems in the areas of Command and Control, cross-system interoperability, networking and communications, or sensor modeling
• Master's or Ph.D. in Engineering, Physics, or related field

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

None

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):

Secret

Work Location Type:

Hybrid

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