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Leads Theater Strike Mission Capabilities initiatives across development programs, projects, proposals, and new business efforts. Develops strategies, roadmaps, execution plans, budgets, estimates, schedules, and staffing plans aligned with market and business goals. Builds cross-functional teams, supports recruiting and development, and establishes strong relationships with customers, industry partners, and internal stakeholders. Requires leadership experience in IRAD, CRAD, or development programs and an active Top Secret clearance.

Systems Engineer supporting functional and electrical interface development for a complex defense aerospace system. Responsibilities include coordinating multidisciplinary teams, translating requirements into design agreements, defining electrical interfaces, maintaining system models, supporting requirements reviews, and performing systems integration, verification, validation, trade studies, and risk analyses. The role requires an active Secret clearance, U.S. citizenship, and the ability to obtain and maintain Top Secret clearance.

Leads systems engineering activities including requirements development and decomposition, technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, risk and cost analysis, trade studies, requirements allocation, and interface definition. Converts customer requirements into hardware and software specifications while managing technical, schedule, and cost constraints. Leads engineering teams through major reviews such as SRR, PDR, and CDR, supporting complex defense and space systems.

Supports the software engineering lifecycle for hypersonic missile flight software, including requirements analysis, object-oriented design, code reviews, unit testing, integration, and formal test activities. The intern contributes to navigation, guidance, and control software, embedded systems, and hardware-in-the-loop testing environments while gaining aerospace software development experience under mentorship.

Leads opto-mechanical engineering teams designing, analyzing, testing, and documenting optical payload hardware. Develops precision components, mechanisms, tolerances, specifications, verification plans, and supplier documentation. Provides technical mentorship and collaborates with payload and business leadership to meet mission requirements.

Develops and maintains integrated master schedules for aerospace and defense programs. Tracks progress, cost, resources, risks, critical paths, and schedule margins; integrates cost and schedule performance throughout the program lifecycle. Supports proposals, earned value management, schedule risk assessments, capacity planning, and corrective actions. Partners with program leadership, technical teams, customers, and senior management to resolve execution conflicts and ensure contractual commitments are achieved.

Develops and integrates software and hardware-in-the-loop test systems for mission applications. Responsibilities include configuring testbeds, coordinating integration objectives, developing test scripts and simulations, conducting regression testing, troubleshooting software baselines, verifying requirements, and documenting results. Collaborates with navigation, guidance and control, flight software, and engineering teams while applying software development, testing, configuration management, and DevSecOps practices.

Leads systems engineering for avionics subsystems, including requirements development, verification and validation, integration, and testing. Manages requirements documentation, technical risk mitigation, schedules, budgets, and resource planning. Provides technical leadership, mentoring, and oversight to systems engineers while coordinating with design, test, manufacturing, and program management teams.

Develop and support geospatial intelligence software within a Scrum team for the NGA. Responsibilities include software requirements verification, application development, operational support, and participation in Agile processes. The role may involve Angular, Java, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD tools, Spring, web services, and data formats such as JSON and XML. Employees support critical national security missions and must qualify for access to classified information.

Develop and deploy scalable Generative AI and machine learning solutions for engineering workflows. Responsibilities include identifying AI opportunities, building prototypes and production applications, designing LLM retrieval and agentic workflows, integrating APIs and data, implementing testing and monitoring, and applying cybersecurity, DevSecOps, architecture, and responsible AI governance. The role partners with engineering, architecture, data, and IT teams to mature secure enterprise AI capabilities.