Senior Program Engineer - Electronic Warfare

Senior Acquisition Program Electronic Warfare Engineer

Odyssey has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Acquisition Program Electronic Warfare Engineer supporting the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center at Eglin AFB, Florida. This position provides the knowledge and experience to efficiently and effectively deliver weapons engineering capabilities in support of the acquisition process.

Duties may include, but are not limited to:

• Provide full-spectrum engineering and technical support across all phases of the DoD acquisition life cycle.
• Define, analyze, and translate requirements into system-level designs, architectures, interfaces, and documentation.
• Conduct engineering reviews, audits, trade studies, AoAs, system effectiveness assessments, and risk analyses.
• Develop technical artifacts including SEPs, design review materials, system specs, and program documentation.
• Support integration, verification/validation, configuration management, and life‑cycle sustainment planning.
• Evaluate proposals, system modifications, training system requirements, simulators, and technical feasibility.
• Perform cost, schedule, producibility, reliability, maintainability, and life‑cycle cost analyses.
• Conduct simulation studies for armament systems and model system/component performance.
• Provide source‑selection technical advising, milestone documentation development, and program readiness assessments.
• Support FMS, program management, risk activities, engineering IPTs, and overall system‑level technical oversight.
• Review and analyze system concepts and requirements baselines.
• Apply Electronic Warfare (EW) engineering expertise across radar systems, threat simulations, RF propagation, signal processing, EW modeling, test planning, and verification.

Minimum Required Qualifications:

Citizenship:
Must be a US Citizen

Clearance:
Current Top Secret clearance

Education and experience:

• Bachelor of Science degree in related discipline and 20 years of relevant experience; OR Master of Science degree in related discipline and 15 years of relevant experience; OR PhD in related discipline and 5 years of relevant experience
• Experience supporting DoD acquisition programs or similar engineering environments

Preferred Qualifications

• Undergraduate and/or graduate engineering degree from a college or university with an Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET) accredited engineering program.
• Experience with armament systems (air-to-air, air-to-surface munitions, missiles, or related systems)
• Knowledge of DoD acquisition lifecycle processes and DoDI 5000 series

Additionally, the successful candidate will demonstrate the following:

Technical Skills

• Requirements definition, analysis, traceability, and management (DOORS or similar)
• Architecture design, system integration, implementation, and interface management
• Verification & validation (V&V) and transition planning
• Configuration management and technical documentation development
• Risk management, technical problem‑solving, and decision analysis
• Modeling tools such as SysML or similar modeling environments
• DoD acquisition lifecycle knowledge, including DoDI 5000 series compliance
• Experience supporting system development, integration, sustainment, and readiness assessments
• Conducting AoAs, trade studies (performance, cost, reliability, maintainability, producibility, schedule)
• Technical review participation (SRR, PDR, CDR, TIMs, MRAs) and artifact development
• Proposal analysis for feasibility, compatibility, and cost effectiveness
• Knowledge of armament systems (munitions, missiles, air‑to‑air/air‑to‑surface systems)
• Electronic Warfare (EW) engineering, including RF propagation, radar systems, signal processing, transmitter/receiver/antenna design
• EW modeling & simulation development, EW model V/V, threat system simulation design
• Flight test methods, hardware evaluation, and system performance validation

Interpersonal Skills

• Ability to operate independently and as part of a multidisciplinary engineering team
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to support complex, mission-critical programs
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment

Location:

Eglin AFB, FL

Travel:
Travel may be required per the customer's discretion.

Work Environment:
Onsite

9/80 work schedule option may be available