Mission Data System Design Engineer

Mission Data System Design Engineer

Torch Technologies, Inc. is a 100% employee‑owned, Certified Great Place To Work and named Best Places to Work in Huntsville/Madison County, headquartered in Huntsville, AL with over 1200 employee‑owners. Our team provides superior research, development, and engineering services to the Federal Government and Department of Defense. We are one of the nation’s top 100 defense companies and our corporate mission, "Lighting the Pathway of Freedom," reflects the pride of our employee‑owners.

We are a Certified Evergreen ESOP and committed to sustaining our company for the next 100 years. Come grow with us!

• Functions as senior EW system engineer and technical lead for mission data (MD) design, development, testing, evaluation, and engineering on the applicable EW system
• Serves as lead engineer/team manager during major EW System operational test and evaluation
• Functions as senior system project engineer in performing advanced systems engineering and hardware/software applications/design for EW equipment or devices
• Senior engineer with project management responsibility to direct/conduct research and development demonstrations for complex Electromagnetic Warfare systems
• Gather, interpret, and program emitter definitions using EDG, Spectre, and other relevant software referencing applicable intel sources
• Understand and program other ancillary Radar Warning Receiver parameters
• Experience programming and running electromagnetic environment simulations, CEESIM and Keysight Simview desired
• Interpret test results and translate to ability to meet customer objectives
• Ability to build prototype tools to support efforts in suitable languages such as Matlab, Python, and/or Java desired
• Collaborate with all stakeholders to ensure mission data design, development, and testing meets customer requirements
• Provide training to less senior staff to enable them to contribute to the mission
• Ability to write code that supports MD reprogramming process

• U.S. Citizenship
• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or a related field, or comparable experience in Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations related to platforms.
• Specific work experience – 5+ years
• Programming skills and knowledge of various programming languages.
• Testing and debugging skills related to mission data development and testing.
• Experience in the development and implementation of MD on aircraft electronic warfare (EW) and/or defensive systems.
• Experience in providing engineering and analysis in developing and updating threat databases using Electronic Warfare Integrated Reprogramming (EWIR) tools; conducting and reporting performance characterization assessments (PCAs); designing and using computer‑based tools to flag and extract threat system parameters for analysis; generating optimized EW MD software files; developing and using software simulations and EW laboratory facilities to verify and validate MD prior to fielding;
  
  and performing rapid reprogramming of fielded MD in response to adversary threat changes.
• Current TS clearance with SCI eligibility is required to start work and must be maintained throughout employment tenure.

• Experience with programming and debugging electromagnetic environment simulation models and scenarios.
• Experience managing multiple Areas of Regard for mission data and prioritizing and assigning emitters in order to maintain currency of the same.
• Experience interacting with System Program Offices and other military organizations.
• Experience in the DAF acquisition cycle.
• Experience developing and presenting technical briefings.

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Torch Technologies is proud to offer a stable and professional work environment, a competitive salary, and an excellent, comprehensive benefit package including: ESOP participation, 401(k) match and safe‑harbor contribution, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short‑term disability, long‑term disability, flexible spending accounts, Health Saving Accounts and Health Reimbursement…