Position/PostingTitle Principal Engineer Hypersonics
Listed on 2026-02-16
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Engineering
Systems Engineer, Electrical Engineering
Overview
Job Title:
Principal Engineer for Hypersonics
Location:
Arnold AFB, TN
Job Family Code: O--Engineering
Function/Branch:
Engineering / Hypersonics
Directorate:
Test Operations
Position Type:
Regular, Full-Time
Pay Type:
Exempt
Grade (provided by HR): L11 (OA1108)
Salary Range or Starting Hourly Rate (provided by HR): $150,000 - $220,000 / year
Current U.S. Citizenship is required
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Open to external candidates.Job Summary
The Senior Staff Engineer hired into this role will function as senior technical advisor to an operations and asset sustainment team to coordinate with multiple departments and contractors to support the design, construction, installation, and commissioning of a new ATF hypersonic ground test facility at Arnold AFB, TN. The Senior Staff Engineer will provide input to fully staffing engineering, craft supervision and craft for operation of the facility.
The team would be responsible for design reviews, creating statements of work, inspections, input into the installation of systems, work instruction creation/review, system safety hazard analysis creation/review, and/or facility integrated test plan creation and execution and other duties as needed.
It is an important aspect of this role to engage and facilitate engagement with personnel across other mission areas in seeking technical solutions. The selected candidate will be responsible for representing BNH in discussions with or presentations to clients, management, customers, and senior technical personnel, thus, comfort in verbal presentations and ability to explain highly technical approaches to a broad audience is critical.
Job Duties- Provide technical advice on test operations and facility assets sustainment
- Provide leadership and technical advice in testing and sustainment processes
- Conduct reviews of technical work and help develop technical capability and rigor
- Serve as configuration manager for systems assets hierarchy including coordinating change requests and reviewing/approving Asset Condition Assessments, encouraging commonality across all test operations
- Promote interaction with asset health assurance branch to advance use of Reliability Centered and Condition Based Maintenance practices
- Provide technical oversight support to capital investment, maintenance, and test projects through engineering reviews and analyses of alternative approaches
- Once the facility is completed, the Senior Staff Engineer will support the TOE’s in the operations, maintenance, and system engineering role after activation of the test bed systems is completed.
- Providing technical support to planning, design, fabrication, procurement, installation and check outs
- Provide strategic and tactical planning, gap identification and solution recommendations to meet current and future test and facility sustainment needs
- Exemplifies the company core value and covenant of safety in all aspects of job including wearing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in accordance with company policy
- It is a condition of employment to wear company issued PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) in accordance with supervisory direction and company policy
- Performs other related duties as required
- BS degree in mechanical engineering from an accredited college or university plus a minimum of 15 years’ post degree engineering experience in ground test facilities’ operation
- Technical expertise in operating and maintaining high temperature laboratory type facilities
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a security clearance and the AEDC local area network
- Due to Air Force Security requirements, U.S. Citizenship is required for employment at AEDC
- Obtained qualification as Test Operations Engineer in at least one applicable facility
- Experience/ Examples in successfully leading special assigned efforts such as mishap investigations, large project design reviews; developed or led teams developing unique operational…
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