System Architecture Engineer

Avion Solutions Inc., a 100% employee-owned company, is seeking candidates for a System Architecture Engineer to support the Missile Defense Agency. This position is located in Huntsville, AL.

Job Responsibilities/Duties:

• Assess missile defense system capability gaps, challenges, needs, and opportunities against current and future threats to develop potential architecture solutions that mitigate gaps and/or improve performance.

• Assist with the development of analysis plans, execute MDS simulation tools utilizing the DoD High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems, assess analysis results, prepare analysis briefs/reports, and provide reviews of analysis products.

• Support modeling & simulation (M&S) efforts related to the above to tailor tools to specific analysis plans.

• Other duties as assigned.

Required Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree in a STEM Field with 7+ years of experience in missile defense-related or other complex, large DoD program/project.

• Solid understanding of the current MDS architecture and future concepts.

• Experience in modeling, assessment, and evaluation of future missile defense architectures.

• Experience with MATLAB.

• Must be a U.S. citizen and have the ability to obtain/maintain a DoW security clearance.

• Must be able to travel up to 15% of the time.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Active TS/SCI Clearance.

• Experience with the definition and use of advanced concepts and algorithms for the M&S of MDS architectures.

• Experience with M&S and analysis of MDS architectures involving both directed and kinetic energy weapons and other future concepts.

• Experience with HPC Systems, Python, and Git is a plus.

• Experience with BMD Benchmark.

• Experience supporting systems engineering-related architecture design activities.

• Ability to perform technology assessment & analysis and provide insight on the utility of potentially useful technologies.

• Specialized MDS analysis experience in: threat characterization, trajectories, RF sensing/signatures, and/or EO/IR sensing/signatures.

• MBSE experience related to missile defense system architectures.

Equal Opportunity: Avion Solutions, Inc. reaffirms its belief in equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants. Avion Solutions, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and a VEVRAA-governed Federal Contractor that affords equal employment opportunity to protected veterans and people with disabilities. Avion Solutions, Inc. provides all employees and job applicants equal employment opportunities in hiring and promotion without regard to age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, religion, color, veteran status, genetic information, physical or mental disability, national origin, or any other reason prohibited by law.