Advanced System Engineer

Avion Solutions Inc., an employee-owned company, is seeking candidates for an Advanced System Engineer to support the Missile Defense Agency. This position is based in Huntsville, Alabama

Job Responsibilities/Duties:

• Provide technical expertise on missile defense activities to include adversary capabilities, systems engineering, and evaluation.
• Remain cognizant of intelligence updates of new threat systems that affect future missile defense architectures.
• Evaluate the adequacy of the current MDS to include ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile defensive architecture to counter the threat and recommend courses of action for concept of operations, system improvements; and identify alternate strategies for affordable, cost effective and technically advanced systems.
• Evaluate and adapt analysis of Allied Missile Defense systems and how in defense of the Unified Command Theaters, those allied missile defense systems can be incorporated into U.S. missile defense systems to provide a more robust defense.
• Provide reach-back for consulting services for key MDS development expertise; facilitating efforts across internal/external stakeholders such as Services and Combatant Commanders providing strategic advice, guidance and direction.
• Support, evaluate, analyze and develop technical recommendations through exchanges with FFRDCs, UARCs, and OGAs to provide input on program process and technical improvement opportunities.
• Support Defense Architecture evolution strategy and development through assessment of interim and final results of Analysis of Alternatives and other analysis activities to include top-level requirements.
• Assist in the analysis, demonstrations, and tests to support early milestones and feasibility assessments, and to collect data to verify that architecture analysis assumptions are.
• Other duties as assigned.

Required Experience:

• Master's degree in STEM field and 12+ years of relevant experience.
• Missile Defense experience.
• Be able to successfully accomplish the duties by working with minimal guidance.
• Must be a US Citizen and have an active DoD Secret Security Clearance.
• Must be able to travel up to 25% of the time. US travel only.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of Hypersonic weapons and their capabilities and limitations.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel & PowerPoint) with emphasis on PowerPoint.
• Experience working with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) or its members.
• Military or Logistics support with THAAD or other FMS programs with allied nations.
• Experience working Early Warning Systems.
• Have detailed knowledge of the MDS to include Command and Control networks, specifically C2BMC and LINK 16.
• Joint Services experience or Combatant Command experience.
• Space Systems experience.

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 who 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.