Requisition #: TLS-26-030 | Clearance: Active DoD Secret (US citizenship required) | Level: Principal | Experience: 12+ years | Education: Master's | Work site: Redstone Arsenal - Huntsville, AL (on-site)
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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Principal Engineer in Huntsville at Telesis
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