Senior Aerospace Engineer

Senior-Level Aerospace Engineer

Location: Huntsville, Alabama

Job Status: Full Time

Clearance: Secret

Systems Engineering Group, Inc. (SEG) is a highly regarded provider of air and missile defense threat engineering and combat, radar, and missile systems engineering and analysis. Principal customers include the U.S. Navy, Missile Defense Agency, and DoD prime item developers. SEG is headquartered in Columbia, MD with offices in Dahlgren, VA, Moorestown, NJ, and Huntsville, AL and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Astrion Corporation.

SEG is seeking enthusiastic candidates to be part of our threat and interceptor missile modeling and simulation team located in Huntsville, AL. This position directly supports the Navy's Digital Threat Engineering team, MDA Threat Engineering Team, and MDA/AB Threat and MDA/AB Threat Systems Engineering team that provides high fidelity U.S. interceptor missile systems simulations and threat engineering simulations of anti-ship cruise missile, anti-ship ballistic missiles, hypersonic glide vehicles, hypersonic cruise missiles, aero-ballistic missiles, and other foreign missile and aircraft systems that threaten the United States and its allies. SEG provides an intellectually stimulating environment with excellent opportunities for technical and leadership growth.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS

• Candidates must be US citizens with the ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance; SCI eligible is preferred
• Candidates must possess a Bachelor of Science Degree in Aerospace Engineering (advanced degrees preferred)
• Candidates must possess at least 10+ years of applicable work experience
• Candidates should demonstrate experience and capability in one or more of the following areas: analysis and modeling of ballistic missile, cruise missile, and/or hypersonic systems including flight dynamics, vehicle performance characterization, propulsion system design, supersonic/hypersonic aerodynamics prediction, guidance, navigation, control, and flight test data analysis
• Candidates must be familiar with MATLAB and/or Python programming languages
• Candidates must be able to communicate well through written documentation and oral presentations
• Good leadership skills; the ability to mentor and train others as well as the ability to lead a multi-disciplinary team to develop high quality products in a timely and cost-efficient manner
• Candidates must be good communicators with both verbal and written English language. They must be able to be able to clearly and concisely express their ideas and defend their work.
• Candidates must be able to work well as part of an integral team of up to 25 people.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS

• Candidates should demonstrate familiarity with the C++ and Python programming languages
• Active DoD Top-Secret clearance desired

RESPONSILIBILITES

• Development of US scientific and technical all-source intelligence-based simulations to characterize the flight performance of threat ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, aero-ballistic missiles, hypersonic cruise missiles, and hypersonic glide vehicle performance for use in supporting Golden Dome America and MDA missile defense acquisition programs as well as Navy operational testing of hardkill and softkill performance via models and simulation. Development of U.S. interceptor missile flight simulations (3DOF to 6DOF) and models for the evaluation of the performance of the interceptor vs. the threat missile systems. The candidate will include:
  • Development of 6DOF aerodynamics, mass properties, propulsion system performance, guidance, navigation and control algorithms, seeker/sensor algorithms for search, detection, track, and decision logic for target selection and ECCM.
  • Characterization of threat missile performance envelopes including development of understanding of the impact of intelligence uncertainty on the overall flight performance and characteristics that impact Navy radar and weapon system designs.
  • Development and use of optimization tool suites for the development and evaluation of advanced interceptor and foreign missile system guidance and control system techniques
  • Executing design trade studies to fill in intelligence gaps to inform decisions regarding engineering modeling and simulation representations of foreign missile systems.
  • Modeling of threat flight variations due to variations in environmental factors, modeling uncertainties, and missile-round to round variations.
• Documentation and presentation of work to internal and external customers
• Support of ongoing activities in developing a high fidelity Six Degrees-of-Freedom (6-DOF) digital flight simulation architecture and environment.
• Ongoing development and refinement of flight optimization software and AI/ML efforts to support Navy, Missile Defense Agency, and Golden Dome America efforts to develop robust defensive weapon systems utilizing complex fire control algorithms, inflight guidance modifications, and robust, adaptive control system designs
• Performing research and augmenting toolsets to enhance modeling techniques and improve current modeling and simulation processes

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