Senior Air Warfare Test and Evaluation​/Threat M&S​/HWIL​/Ove Security Clearance

Position: Senior Air Warfare Test and Evaluation / Threat M&S / HWIL / Ove with Security Clearance
Title:

Senior Air Warfare Test and Evaluation / Threat M&S / HWIL / Over-the-Air Test Subject Matter Expert Belong. Connect. Grow. with K ! K 's National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country's most critical role - protecting our national security.

Why Join Us?
* Innovative Projects: K 's work is at the forefront of engineering, logistics, operations, science, program management, mission IT and cybersecurity solutions.

* Collaborative Environment:
Be part of a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration and innovation, fostering a supportive and intellectually stimulating workplace.

* Impactful Work:
Your contributions will be pivotal in designing and optimizing defense systems that ensure national security and shape the future of space defense.

Job Description:

Job Title:

Senior Air Warfare Test and Evaluation / Threat M&S / HWIL / Over-the-Air Test SME

Location:

CONUS; remote/work from home acceptable, with supervisor based in Huntsville, AL Clearance:
Top Secret (TS) required at hire; candidate must be able to successfully obtain and maintain a Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) investigation and eligibility. Existing TS/SCI is strongly preferred. Employment:
Full-time

Summary:

K  is seeking a senior subject matter expert (SME) to support the Test and Evaluation Threat Resource Activity (TETRA) in Air Warfare Test and Evaluation (T&E), threat modeling and simulation (M&S), hardware-in-the-loop (HWIL), and over-the-air (OTA) test capability development. The ideal candidate brings deep experience across developmental test (DT) and operational test (OT), threat surrogate development and validation, air electronic warfare (EW) systems, and intelligence community (IC)-produced threat emulators.

This role will help define requirements, assess test capabilities, support range and laboratory integration, and provide technically rigorous analysis and recommendations to government stakeholders across the DoD and IC.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead technical assessments for Air Warfare T&E efforts spanning laboratory, HWIL, open-air range, and flight test environments.
• Develop and evaluate threat M&S approaches, including threat surrogates, IC-validated digital models, and closed-loop or open-loop threat representations for T&E.
• Define requirements and methodologies for OTA test capabilities, threat emitter systems, mobile threat simulators, and HWIL test infrastructure that support specification verification, mission effectiveness assessment, and rapid reprogramming validation in support of TETRA and the office of the Director, Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E).
• Provide subject matter expertise in Air EW M&S capabilities, threat environment assessments, intelligence-based analyses, and the operational use of threat emulators produced by the IC.
• Coordinate with government, industry, academia, test ranges, laboratories, and intelligence stakeholders to mature test capabilities, assess system performance, support acquisition decisions, and identify cost, schedule, and technical risk reduction opportunities.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or a related technical discipline.
• 20+ years of relevant experience in Air Warfare T&E, threat M&S, flight test, laboratory test, range test, or related defense acquisition and integration activities.
• Active TS clearance required; TS/SCI eligibility required, with active TS/SCI strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated experience with threat surrogate development, verification and validation (V&V), intelligence data and threat assessments, and integration of threat models into Live, Virtual, and Constructive (LVC) test environments.
• Experience developing requirements, test methodologies, test plans, technical assessments, and briefing materials for senior government and program leadership.
• Strong communication skills and proven ability to work effectively across the DoD, IC, national…