Unmanned Systems and Autonomy Subject Matter Expert
Listed on 2026-09-21
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Manufacturing / Production
Robotics, Systems Engineer
Location: Mac Dill Air Force Base, Tampa, Florida
Work Arrangement: On-site
Employment Type: Full-time, exempt
Travel: CONUS and OCONUS travel may be required
Security Clearance: Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility required; current TS/SCI adjudication preferred
About the PositionCompany: Kinetic Concepts, LLC
Location: Mac Dill Air Force Base, Tampa, Florida
Work Arrangement: On-site
Employment Type: Full-time, exempt
Travel: CONUS and OCONUS travel may be required
Security Clearance: Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility required; current TS/SCI adjudication preferred
Kinetic Concepts, LLC is seeking an experienced Unmanned Systems (UxS) and Autonomy Subject Matter Expert to provide embedded support to the United States Special Operations Command J37 Joint Task Force–Modernization organization at Mac Dill Air Force Base.
The selected candidate will serve as a subject matter expert on unmanned and autonomous systems across the air, ground, and maritime domains. The position will support Special Operations Forces concept development, experimentation, capability assessment, and technology integration.
This position requires knowledge of unmanned-systems employment and autonomy technologies, including modular open systems approaches, common data interfaces, edge processing, collaborative autonomy, and decentralized control. The successful candidate must be able to translate operator requirements into technical and procedural recommendations and coordinate across government, military, academic, laboratory, and industry organizations.
Key Responsibilities- Serve as a subject matter expert for unmanned systems across the air, ground, and maritime domains.
- Advise on Group 1 through Group 3 unmanned aircraft systems, unmanned ground systems, ground robotics, and unmanned surface and undersea vessels.
- Provide expertise on collaborative and decentralized mission autonomy, swarming, peer-to-peer coordination, dynamic retasking, and operations in communications-denied environments.
- Advise on modular open systems approaches, government-owned architectures, common interfaces, and the USSOCOM Modular Payload Standard.
- Assess artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities supporting unmanned systems, including computer vision, training data, synthetic data, model evaluation, and tactical-edge processing.
- Evaluate payload modularity, sensor integration, data links, communications, resilient positioning, navigation and timing, and launch-and-recovery considerations.
- Assess unmanned-system employment in permissive, contested, and denied environments.
- Monitor counter-unmanned systems developments and their effects on friendly-system employment and survivability.
- Support experimentation events, capability assessments, technology demonstrations, exercises, and rapid-prototyping activities.
- Develop assessment criteria, measures of performance and effectiveness, data-collection plans, and operational scenarios.
- Evaluate government and industry submissions, white papers, and technical proposals for maturity, operational relevance, and compliance with applicable standards.
- Conduct after-action analyses and translate operator feedback into technical and procedural recommendations.
- Coordinate with SOFWERX, laboratories, university-affiliated research centers, academic institutions, program offices, and industry partners.
- Conduct capability-gap analyses and recommend mitigation strategies and transition paths to programs of record.
- Coordinate with SOF Acquisition, Technology and Logistics program executive offices, Service program offices, Theater Special Operations Commands, and component commands.
- Review Capability Development Documents, concepts of operation, and related capability and requirements documentation.
- Prepare white papers, technical assessments, evaluation summaries, trip reports, and senior-leader briefings.
- Support the development of tactics, techniques and procedures, user documentation, and training materials.
- Handle classified and sensitive information in accordance with all applicable security requirements.
- Active Top Secret security clearance with SCI eligibility.
- Ability to maintain the required security eligibility throughout employment.
- At least eight years of progressive experience in unmanned-systems operations, employment, integration, testing, or acquisition.
- Experience serving at the O-4, senior noncommissioned officer, or equivalent civilian level.
- Hands-on experience with the operational…
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