Senior Reliability Engineer

Responsibilities

• Your primary responsibility will be to provide subject matter expertise (SME) and thought leadership by engaging with and advising on reliability and resilience topics across several strategic deterrent systems.
• You will participate as a reliability SME in various projects, studies, and technical working groups focusing on requirements development, analysis, concept/technology development, acquisition, risk assessments, test planning and system evaluation.
• You will develop reliability methodologies and analyses of strategic deterrence weapon system capabilities and assist in the development of future weapon system requirements.
• You will provide reliability domain expertise while leading/coordinating research, studies, and analysis on current and future weapons system capabilities and performance, and provide supporting data and technical recommendations to advise program sponsors.
• You will deliver formal presentations to sponsors and supporting contractors, effectively communicating proposed concepts/solutions and analysis results, and produce reports that bring together concept definitions, requirements, analysis results, and technical recommendations.
• You will identify risk areas to project and program leaders with recommended mitigation strategies that are cost- and schedule-effective to meet program needs.

Minimum qualifications:

• Have a Bachelor’s degree in engineering, mathematics, physics or a related technical field.
• Have 5+ years of relevant experience performing systems reliability (RAM) engineering in the design, development or evaluation of complex weapon systems.
• Have experience developing and executing reliability approaches (e.g., FMEA, FMECA, reliability block diagrams, fault tree analysis, probabilistic risk assessment) to quantify risk and inform program decisions in early concept development, acquisition, requirements analysis, design, test and evaluation, and sustainment.
• Have familiarity with developing and allocating RAM requirements based on assessment of mission needs in relation to the end‑user concept of operations.
• Have familiarity with RAM management strategies that evolve as the system matures through DoD acquisition phases.
• Have strong verbal and written communication skills and strong critical‑thinking skills.
• Show ability to interact effectively with and lead multidisciplinary teams, including industry and government sponsors.
• Are willing and able to travel periodically, including short visits to sponsor offices at the Washington Navy Yard and to supporting contractor sites, as well as occasional travel to other military bases across the country.
• Hold an active Secret security clearance and be able to obtain a Top Secret clearance. U.S. citizenship is required.

Preferred qualifications:

• Have an advanced degree in engineering, mathematics, physics or a related technical field.
• Have 10+ years of experience applying reliability engineering for the Department of Defense, particularly for strategic weapon systems, ballistic defense systems, or space systems in development and deployment.
• Have experience formulating, implementing, and/or executing reliability models or metrics for strategic weapon systems.
• Have experience with DoD acquisition processes and managing or evaluating reliability, availability and maintainability for DoD systems.
• Familiarity with reliability and statistical engineering software tools such as Reliasoft, Windchill, Sapphire, MADiE, JMP, R, SAS, and similar.
• Experience developing reliability tools and analysis through code development (R, MATLAB, Python, SAS, etc.).
• Experience applying Bayesian techniques to data analysis for prediction, planning, and evaluation purposes.
• Experience with software reliability analysis and implementation of best practices for ensuring highly reliable and available code.
• Experience identifying risk to system performance or system safety, taking into account human factors.
• Familiarity with systems engineering software, especially model‑based systems engineering tools like CAMEO and DOORS.
• Experience with new DoD program development to include concept development and Pre‑Milestone A activities.
• Experience…