Senior​/SME Seeker Engineer – Long-Range Weapons

Senior/SME Seeker Engineer – Long‑Range Weapons

K ’s National Security Solutions team provides advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country’s most critical mission – protecting our national security.

• Innovative projects across engineering, logistics, operations, science, program management, mission IT and cybersecurity solutions.
• Collaborative environment fostering support and intellectual stimulation.
• Impactful work on advanced long‑range weapon capabilities that strengthen the future joint force.

K  seeks a highly experienced Senior to SME‑level seeker engineering professional to support a U.S. Government program office developing and fielding advanced long‑range weapon systems. The role offers expert technical and programmatic support across seeker architecture, design, integration, performance assessment, risk reduction, testing, and transition to production.

• Serve as a senior technical advisor on seeker technologies, architectures, performance, integration, and technical risk for long‑range air‑to‑air and air‑to‑ground systems.
• Evaluate contractor seeker concepts, designs, development plans, technical baselines, performance claims, and maturation strategies.
• Assess active and passive radar seeker technologies, including RF front ends, antennas, transmit/receive modules, signal processing, waveform design, target detection, tracking, discrimination, and electronic‑protection features.
• Assess EO/IR seeker technologies, including imaging infrared sensors, focal plane arrays, optics, cryogenic and uncooled detectors, image processing, automatic target recognition, scene‑based navigation, and target tracking.
• Evaluate single‑mode, dual‑mode, and multimode seeker architectures and the allocation of functions among radar, EO/IR, onboard processing, navigation, datalinks, and weapon‑level guidance and control.
• Asses seeker performance across representative air‑to‑air and air‑to‑ground missions, target sets, engagement geometries, environmental conditions, and contested electromagnetic environments.
• Support evaluation of seeker requirements, specifications, interface definitions, verification methods, technical performance measures, and traceability.
• Evaluate seeker integration with guidance, navigation, weapon control, mission computer, inertial navigation, datalink, power, thermal systems, airframe, radome or optical window, and fire‑control/launch‑platform interfaces.
• Assess modeling, simulation, hardware‑in‑the‑loop, digital engineering, laboratory, captive‑carry, flight‑test, and live‑fire test approaches for verifying seeker performance.
• Analyze test data, anomalies, failure investigations, root‑cause assessments, corrective actions, and technical trade studies to identify implications for performance, cost, schedule, and fielding risk.
• Support technical reviews, design reviews, test readiness reviews, program reviews, source selections, proposal evaluations, and other acquisition activities requiring independent seeker expertise.
• Research comparable seeker approaches across defense, allied, industry, and technological bases to identify applicable technologies, lessons learned, and risk‑reduction opportunities.
• Evaluate opportunities to improve seeker affordability, modularity, commonality, open architecture, processing capability, software reusability, producibility, upgradeability, and resilience.
• Assess technology maturity, integration readiness, supplier dependencies, critical components, obsolescence, exportability, cybersecurity, software assurance, and transition‑to‑production risks.
• Develop technical assessments, risk summaries, decision papers, briefing materials, and courses of action for Government stakeholders.
• Provide advice on acquisition strategies, contractor proposals, schedule assumptions, technical trades, test results, and fielding decisions.

• Location: On‑site, Eglin AFB, FL
• Travel: Low‑to‑moderate, approximately 25%
• Hours: Standard schedule; core hours 0900–1500

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