JSE Lead Open Systems Architect

Compensation

Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including a candidate's qualifications, education, skills, and experience as well as market demands. These factors impact the salary/wage offered.

Flight Safety offers a competitive total rewards package, which includes vacation, sick leave, a 401k match, healthcare coverage and a broad range of other benefits.

Flight Safety Defense Corporation is gearing to become a recognized integration partner and solution provider for the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy in the Joint Simulation Environment (JSE) and Simulator Common Architecture Requirements and Standards (SCARS) ecosystem. The JSE Lead Open Systems Architect is a senior technical contributor who owns FSI Defense's open architecture strategy across the JSE/SCARS ecosystem and Government Reference Architecture (GRA) landscape.

This role is responsible for ensuring that Flight Safety's Weapon System Trainer (WST) portfolio and JSE-connected simulation products are positioned to compete and win in an acquisition environment built on open architectures, sustained competition, and modular, vendor-agnostic design.

This individual brings deep familiarity with the full spectrum of Government-owned open architectures and candidate standards — including AMS-GRA, A-GRA, OMS, UCI, SCARS, SOSA, and related frameworks — and understands how each maps to training system design, JSE integration, and FSI Defense's strategic growth opportunities. The role directly supports FSI Defense's response to the DoD's Next Generation Acquisition Model and its emphasis on government-owned open architectures as the foundation for agile, competitive, and sustainable defense programs.

• The JSE Lead Open Systems Architect defines and maintains FSI Defense's open systems architecture strategy for all JSE/SCARS pursuits, ensuring that simulator designs, integration approaches, and product roadmaps align with the MOSA ecosystem and the Government's GRA-based acquisition framework. This includes mapping FSI Defense capabilities against candidate GRAs (AMS-GRA, A-GRA) and candidate open standards (e.g., OMS, UCI, UAI, WOSA, SCARS, etc.)
  
  to identify gaps, compliance requirements, and competitive positioning.
• The architect leads the design of modular, open, and platform-agnostic simulation architectures for FSI Defense's WST and JSE-connected products. This includes decoupling operator interfaces from aircraft-specific implementations, enabling Virtual Aircraft Services (VAS) and reconfigurable cockpit architectures, and integrating simulation components with the JSE Technical Baseline (JTB) via the Global Reusable Interface Domain (GRID). Solutions designed by this role must demonstrate scalability to large, multi-site training environments with 100 or more players across shared synthetic battlespace environments.
• The JSE Lead Open Systems Architect serves as the primary technical resource for Government Reference Architecture compliance across bids and programs. The role reviews solicitations, Requests for Proposals, and DIU Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO) submissions for open architecture requirements and ensures FSI Defense's technical volumes accurately and compellingly represent the company's GRA alignment. This architect shapes proposal responses, oral presentation content, and architecture documentation for JSE/SCARS-relevant programs.
• The role works closely with the JSE Architect and Project Lead to align FSI Defense's SCARS compliance roadmap — including Architecture Standard Increment 5, the Dev Sec Ops  Process Standard, and the Common Security Controls Standard — with the broader MOSA and GRA requirements flowing from AFLCMC and HAF/A3T. The architect also coordinates with MBSE modelers and simulation engineers to maintain SysML-based architecture models, interface control documents (ICDs), and compliance traceability artifacts that reflect FSI Defense's open systems posture.
• The JSE Lead Open Systems Architect participates in government industry days, SCARS collaboration events, and relevant technical interchange meetings (TIMs), building FSI Defense's…