Principal Engineer

Summary

Principal Engineer

Redstone Arsenal, AL

Are you ready to enhance your skills and build your career in a rapidly evolving business climate? Are you looking for a career where professional development is embedded in your employer’s core culture? If so, Chenega Military, Intelligence & Operations Support (MIOS) could be the place for you! Join our team of professionals who support large-scale government operations by leveraging cutting-edge technology and take your career to the next level!

Venturi, LLC A Chenega Company has an exciting career opportunity for a Principal Engineer who will provide engineering oversight for target system payloads and countermeasure development in support of the Missile Defense Agency’s missions. This individual will act as a trusted advisor to the program office, delivering critical assessments of prime contractor designs, technical plans, and target instrumentation layouts. Serving as a technical anchor during major program milestones—from System Requirements through Product Acceptance—, this Engineer will seamlessly collaborate across multiple organizations, modeling teams, cost analysts, and schedulers to ensure items are delivered accurately and on time.

Responsibilities

• Engineering Oversight & Design Assessment
  • Expert Advisory: Serve as the technical expert on payload and countermeasure requirements development, analysis, design, qualification, and fielding.
  • Independent Evaluation: Review and provide assessments of prime contractor designs, plans, reports, and technical procedures.
  • Instrumentation Analysis: Evaluate target instrumentation requirements, physical layouts, component selection, and testing methodologies
• Program Milestone & Lifecycle Support
  • Milestone Reviews: Provide technical evaluation and engineering support during all major program milestones (including SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, FRB, MRB, and PAR).
  • Cross-Agency Coordination: Answer technical inquiries from external MDA organizations and lead multi-disciplinary Technical Interchange Meetings (TIMs).
• Program Management & Operations Collaboration
  • Cost Estimation: Provide technical assessments to the cost analysis team to ensure accurate program management budget estimates.
  • Schedule Alignment: Partner with the program scheduler to track delivery deadlines and proactively keep leadership advised of status.
• Perform other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• Master's degree in STEM
• 12+ years supporting missile defense or large-scale, complex DoD programs
• Active DoD Secret clearance
• Successfully pass background and drug screening

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of IR/RCS signatures for flight objects and countermeasures.
• Experience with material properties and material property measurements.
• Knowledge of real-world threat systems and how they impact target designs.
• Have an understanding of MDA flight test requirements and apply that to the payload hardware development.
• Technical proposal development and evaluation.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Program Execution
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  Experience managing end-to-end program life cycles, including the development, testing, and fielding of complex systems.
• Adaptability: Thrive in a fast-paced environment where priorities change quickly.
• Multitasking: Handle multiple urgent tasks at once without losing focus.
• Travel
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  Able to support travel requests up to 20% of the time.

How you’ll grow

At Chenega MIOS, our professional development plan focuses on helping our team members at every level of their careers to identify and use their strengths to do their best work every day. From entry-level employees to senior leaders, we believe there’s always room to learn.

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