Missile Defense Software Expert, Senior

The Opportunity

As an expert in missile defense systems, your unique background inspires you to think bigger, push further, and ask questions others don’t. We need your extensive knowledge and skills to guide teams as they solve some of our clients’ most complex problems and find solutions that keep our nation safe.

As an expert in missile defense systems, your unique background inspires you to think bigger, push further, and ask questions others don’t. We need your extensive knowledge and skills to guide teams as they solve some of our clients’ most complex problems and find solutions that keep our nation safe.

As a Missile Defense Expert, you’ll bring your technical, analytical, and strategic expertise to work on projects related to fire control and weapon-target pairing for complex weapons systems. You’ll analyze and capture functional needs of the user community to enhance design and system capabilities for a critical defense system. We’ll look to you to identify, analyze, and evaluate complex systems, policies, and processes to improve operations.

You’ll develop the next generation of U.S. missile defense systems and deliver solutions and capabilities to meet the homeland defense mission. Further, your career with us as you solve complex design, integration, and analytical problems.

Join us. The world can’t wait.

• 10+ years of experience with the design, development, testing, or analysis for Missile Defense Weapons Systems or Fire Control Systems
• 7+ years of experience with weapon system engineering, planning, and integration
• Experience with weapon system requirements, design, and performance analysis for features such as engageability, interceptability, and lethality
• Experience with systems architecture, requirements management, and technical baseline management
• Experience with reviews of complex systems in accordance with the System Engineering Technical Review (SETR) process
• Knowledge of Systems Modeling Language (SysML), DoD Architecture Framework (DoDAF), and Unified Architecture Framework (UAF)
• Ability to effectively communicate, work independently and collaboratively on a cross-functional team, and demonstrate initiative to complete complex tasks to achieve program goals in a fast-paced environment
• Secret clearance
• Bachelor’s degree

• Experience with strategic and operational-level missile defense planning, employment, and concepts of operations
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines such as Git Hub Actions, Git Lab CI, or Jenkins
• Experience with embedded programming and scripting languages such as Rust, C, C++, Python, Java, or Java Script
• Experience developing software within an Agile framework and Dev Sec Ops  infrastructure as part of a CI/CD pipeline
• Experience designing the architecture and containerized services with Kubernetes
• TS/SCI clearance
• Master’s degree

Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information;
Secret clearance is required.

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