Lead Scientist, Strategic Defense

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Lead system and mission architecture for end-to-end IAMD kill chains spanning sensing, track formation, identification, threat evaluation, weapon assignment, engagement planning, fire-control execution, and kill…
• Define and mature fire-control functionality, including engagement-quality track requirements, sensor-to-shooter interfaces, weapon-control integration, timing and latency budgets, safety constraints, and…
• Develop dynamic sensor-tasking approaches that allocate and coordinate distributed sensors based on threat priority, track quality, geometry, resource availability, defended-asset priorities, and anticipated engagement…
• Translate operational concepts, threat scenarios, and customer needs into testable system requirements, behaviors, interfaces, and performance measures.
• Decompose mission objectives into subsystem requirements and maintain traceability from operational need through architecture, implementation, verification, and validation.
• Perform and review technical analyses involving detection and tracking performance, sensor coverage, track quality, discrimination, system latency, raid handling, resource allocation, engagement timelines, and…
• Build and use modeling and simulation environments to evaluate architectures, algorithms, sensor and effector pairings, system-of-systems behavior, and mission performance against representative threat sets.
• Work directly with software engineers to implement battle-management, fire-control, sensor-management, track-management, and decision-support capabilities.

Job requirements

• 10–15 years of relevant engineering experience developing, integrating, testing, or fielding complex defense, aerospace, radar, missile, weapon, battle-management, or command-and-control systems.
• A sustained record of hands-on technical work in systems engineering, software engineering, controls, electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, radar engineering, modeling and simulation, integration and test, or…
• Demonstrated engineering experience with fire-control systems or engagement chains, including several of the following: engagement-quality tracks, weapon assignment, engagement planning, sensor-to-shooter integration,…
• Demonstrated experience with sensor tasking or sensor resource management, including task planning, revisit scheduling, search and track allocation, track-quality management, multi-sensor coordination, or closed-loop…
• Working knowledge of IAMD missions and threats, including a meaningful subset of cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, hypersonic threats, fixed-wing aircraft, rotary-wing aircraft, and other airborne threats.
• Experience developing and analyzing end-to-end system architectures that integrate multiple sensors, command-and-control nodes, fire-control elements, communications networks, and effectors.
• Experience translating operational needs and concepts of operation into technical requirements, architectures, interface definitions, and verification plans.
• Experience with sensor fusion, tracking, battle management, mission planning, resource allocation, or real-time decision systems.