Mission Systems Engineer, Lead

Roles and Responsibilities

• Define mission problems, analysis objectives, decision contexts, assumptions, constraints, and investigative questions.
• Collaborate with operators, government customers, engineers, analysts, and subject matter experts to validate mission context, data sources, and analytic approaches.
• Define operational environments, CONOPS, scenarios, threats, timelines, and mission constraints.
• Develop operational, functional, logical, and system of systems architectures that capture mission activities, systems, interfaces, dependencies, and information flows.
• Establish Measures of Success, Measures of Effectiveness, Measures of Performance, and supporting metrics.
• Apply modeling, simulation, experimentation, sensitivity analysis, and comparative assessments to evaluate baseline and alternative mission approaches, system of systems performance, risks, and mission impacts.
• Analyze quantitative and qualitative results, assess uncertainty and confidence, and validate findings with stakeholders.
• Deliver actionable recommendations, mission architectures, briefings, reports, visualizations, models, and reusable digital artifacts to inform acquisition, prototyping, experimentation, and capability decisions.

Basic Qualifications

• Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 6 years and a Master's degree; or a PhD with 3 years' experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• Experience supporting defense, aerospace, intelligence, national security, or other mission-critical technical programs.
• Knowledge of the DoW R&E Mission Engineering Guide (MEG) v2.
• Experience with analysis and data tools such as but not limited to Python, MATLAB, R, SQL.
• Experience with architecture/modeling tools: iGrafx, CAMEO, Rhapsody, or equivalent.
• Experience with modeling languages and frameworks: SysML 1.7, BPMN, UAF/UAFML, or related methods.
• Experience with simulation and mission analysis tools: Simulink, AFSIM, ITASE, NGTS, STL/Systems Tool Kit, OneSAF, or similar tools.
• Ability to analyze complex missions, operational scenarios, system dependencies, system of systems interactions, or capability gaps.
• Experience developing or supporting at least several of the following: mission threads, operational scenarios, vignettes, CONOPS, use cases, functional flows, system architectures, interface concepts, requirements, measures and metrics, run matrices, trade studies, or analysis reports.
• Ability to communicate complex technical and operational findings clearly through briefings, white papers, visualizations, technical reports, and stakeholder discussions.
• Ability to work with cross-functional teams that may include operators, engineers, software developers, modelers, data scientists, test personnel, subject matter experts, and government customers.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Must have an active Secret U.S Government issued Security Clearance and must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Top Secret/SCI U.S Government issued Security Clearance.
• Per the U.S. Government's eligibility requirements, you must be a U.S Citizen to be considered for a security clearance.
• This position requires a minimum of 4 days a week on-site.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in systems engineering, modeling and simulation, software engineering, computer science, or related disciplines.
• Experience supporting Joint Staff, Combatant Command, acquisition, science and technology, prototyping, test, or experimentation organizations.
• Experience executing and implementing DoW R&E MEG v2.
• Experience developing mission architectures that connects operational mission outcomes to system-level functions, capabilities, interfaces, dependencies, and performance parameters.
• Experience defining and applying MOSs, MOEs, MOPs, key performance parameters, operational measures, technical measures, and mission outcome metrics.
• Experience conducting tradespace analyses, gap analysis, sensitivity analysis, capability assessments, portfolio assessments, campaign analysis, operational analysis, or system of systems performance analysis.
• Experience with live, virtual, and constructive experimentation; test event planning; wargaming; red/blue/green force representations; operational scenario development; or data collection in operationally relevant venues.
• Experience with data pedigree, uncertainty quantification, model verification and validation, configuration management, and curation of reusable mission engineering artifacts.
• Active DoD Top Secret clearance with access to Secure Compartmented Information (TS/SCI).