Systems Engineer

Avion Solutions Inc., an employee-owned company, seeks candidates for a Systems Engineer to support the Missile Defense Agency. This position is based in Huntsville, AL.

Job Responsibilities/Duties:

• Provide engineering support to the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Modeling and Simulation (M&S) Products Support team, with a focus on requirements, modeling, and simulation (M&S), and V&V activities in support of missile defense framework and Core Truth Model (CTM) development.
• Develop and review missile defense system requirements for the framework and CTM development.
• Develop and review verification and validation plans for CTM development and coordination with the accrediting organization.
• Draft and review technical documents.
• Coordinate system engineering life cycle products and activities with both internal and external stakeholders including prime developers and the Missile System elements.
• Support troubleshooting and develop solutions for framework and CTM observations in support of MDA's ground test and flight test programs.
• Interact between the government and prime developer in support of MDA's ground test and flight test programs.
• Analyze the integration of systems engineering processes and methodologies to ensure the effectiveness of work.
• Other duties as assigned.

Required Experience:

• BS degree in a STEM field.
• 7+ years of related professional experience.
• Experience with Agile and SAFe software development principles.
• Experience with M&S requirements development.
• Experience with M&S development.
• Experience with M&S verification and validation.
• Ability to work with a diverse team of engineers (geographically diverse) of different perspectives, skillsets, and backgrounds.
• Ability to effectively communicate complex ideas to non-technical trained people.
• Must be a US Citizen and have/able to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret Security Clearance.
• Must be able to travel up to 25% of the time. US travel only.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with the missile defense system and the Missile Defense Agency.
• Practical experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and Systems Modeling Language (SysML) and other languages typically used for system modeling (i.e. DoD Architecture framework and UML).
• Exposure to MDA test events and activities supported by M&S products and services.
• Experience with analysis, test, and systems engineering of M&S for one or more elements of the MDS (i.e. Patriot, THAAD, GMD, Sensors, or C2).

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.