Mission Planning Engineer

Responsibilities

• Support the integration, certification, sustainment, and operational use of mission planning systems across Naval Aviation platforms
• Collaborate with engineering teams, program offices, and fleet operators to ensure systems are effectively integrated, maintained, and operationally reliable
• Ensure mission planning capabilities meet fleet needs, enabling safe, efficient mission execution and timely resolution of system issues through coordinated engineering support
• Evaluate mission planning software functionality, interfaces, and compatibility
• Assess operational suitability and system performance
• Support certification efforts for mission planning systems and mission data loading capabilities
• Contribute to verification, validation, and compliance documentation
• Interface with fleet users and platform teams to identify requirements and resolve mission planning issues
• Support mission planning workflows and operational execution needs
• Support mission data loading processes, configuration management, and data distribution
• Assist with mission planning workflows and system configuration control
• Coordinate with Data Integrity, Navigation, Surveillance, and Communications engineers
• Interface with PMAs, software vendors, and platform stakeholders

• Experience with mission planning systems, including:
• JMPS, VMPS, NOMS, or similar mission planning applications
• Mission data loaders and mission planning workflows
• Knowledge of:
• Systems engineering principles and software integration
• Verification & validation, test & evaluation, and configuration management
• Requirements management processes
• Understanding of:
• Aviation mission planning processes and flight planning concepts
• Airspace operations and military aviation mission execution
• Ability to support cross-functional coordination across engineering disciplines and stakeholders
• Desired:
• Experience supporting Naval Aviation or DoD aviation programs
• Familiarity with mission planning system certification processes
• Experience working with operational fleet users or aviation platform teams
• Knowledge of data integrity, navigation, surveillance, or communications systems integration
• Experience with mission planning system upgrades, modernization, or software development environments
• Education/Years of
  
  Experience:
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or a related technical field and at least 4 years mission planning and domain experience
• Security Clearance:
• Active Secret clearance required. Requirements to obtain a clearance include US Citizenship, security investigation, etc.