Senior Engineer​/Scientist

• Compensation: USD 135000 - USD 175000 - yearly

Bryce Tech is a trusted leader in complex technology domains, delivering data-driven solutions in aerospace, biosecurity, and defense. We specialize in systems engineering, advanced analytics, R&D programs, and strategic advisory support. Our clients – including NASA, DoD, HHS, DHS, and other civil and national security agencies – rely on us to drive mission success and accelerate innovation.

Bryce Tech has been recognized in the Washington Technology Fast 50 ranking of top high-growth small businesses for five consecutive years and received a Gov Con Contractor of the Year Award in 2025, underscoring our strong growth, competitive positioning, and excellence in federal contracting. With a proven track record of winning sought-after contracts, scaling high-performance teams, and executing on critical government missions, Bryce Tech presents a compelling opportunity for strategic partnerships in the Gov Con space.

Bryce Tech is seeking a Senior Engineer/Scientist to provide scientific, engineering, and technical advisory support to the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Space Warfare Directorate (AFRL/RJ) and Information and Spectrum Warfare Directorate (AFRL/RF) under the JUPITER program at Kirtland AFB, New Mexico.

The Senior Engineer/Scientist will provide technical expertise and advisory support for research and development, technology planning, technical assessments, strategic planning, and technology investment activities. The position will support AFRL efforts to develop, evaluate, demonstrate, and transition advanced technologies and systems that address evolving warfighter requirements.

The JUPITER mission encompasses space warfare and information and spectrum warfare technologies, including space communications, positioning, navigation and timing, space warfare cyber, modeling and simulation, space warfare evaluation and analysis, defensive space warfare control, space warfare situational awareness, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, high-powered electromagnetics, laser systems, electro-optics, and related technologies.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior-level scientific, engineering, and technical advisory support to AFRL/RJ and AFRL/RF
• Support technical and strategic planning activities related to space warfare and information and spectrum warfare technology investments
• Evaluate technologies, systems, concepts, and research and development activities for technical merit, feasibility, capability, maturity, and potential warfighter impact
• Conduct and support technical studies, analyses, evaluations, assessments, and trade studies
• Provide technical input to near-term and long-term technology investment and acquisition strategies
• Support the development, assessment, and refinement of technology and enterprise investment approaches
• Analyze emerging technologies and assess their potential application to future space warfare and information and spectrum warfare capabilities
• Support technology development, maturation, demonstration, integration, and transition activities
• Provide technical expertise in support of research and development programs, technology experiments, prototypes, demonstrations, and related activities
• Support technical reviews, working groups, committees, Scientific Advisory Boards, Office of Scientific Research Reviews, and other technical forums as required
• Prepare technical documents, analyses, briefings, presentations, recommendations, and other decision-support materials
• Present technical findings and recommendations to government leadership and other senior stakeholders
• Collaborate with AFRL personnel, other government organizations, industry, academia, federally funded research and development centers, and other technical partners
• Provide independent technical judgment and recommendations regarding technology investments, research priorities, technical approaches, and future capabilities
• Monitor developments within relevant technical communities and assess their implications for AFRL research and development priorities
• Apply professional engineering and scientific expertise to complex technical and strategic problems
• Support other technical planning and advisory activities within the scope of the JUPITER program

Required Qualifications

• Active DoD Top Secret Clearance with SCI Eligibility (TS/SCI)
• PhD degree in engineering or science disciplines with seven years of experience, or master’s degree in…