The Missile Defense Advanced Concepts Engineer will be providing technical support to the Missile
Defense Agency on the MDA Technical, Engineering, Advisory and Management Support (TEAMS)-Next
Specialized Engineering Analyses (SEA) contract. The unique, highly qualified SEA Team is critical to
ensuring the MDA can rapidly develop and deploy missile defense capabilities to defeat advanced
missile threats by aggressively pursuing advanced concepts and technologies for leap-ahead capability in
directed energy, hypersonic missile defense, radiation hardened electronics, space-based sensors, and
Israeli defense systems. The SEA Team provides comprehensive Missile Defense System test analyses,
future Missile Defense System architecture modeling and design, advanced technology analyses, and
specialized engineering support to improve the development, testing, and fielding of cybersecure and
tamper-proof upgrades to MDS Elements.
We have a critical opening for a Missile Defense Advanced Concepts Engineer supporting the MDA
Advanced Architectures, Advanced Concepts Evaluation Team (MDA/CAS). The MDA/CAS team performs
evaluations for emerging advanced concepts and technologies to increase the effectiveness of the
globally deployed Missile Defense System and makes recommendations to the MDA Chief Architect for
new concept demonstrations and potential inclusion in future deliveries of MDS Elements. The selected
candidates will provide specialized engineering and analytical support to the Director, Advanced
Concepts Evaluation, providing Missile Defense System Architecture updates and plans, and conducting
qualitative and quantitative performance analyses, assessments, and special studies.
Duties include:
- Attending presentations, conferences and working groups from organizations spanning the DoD in order to capture Defense developments and their potential utility for missile defense
- Evaluate Missile Defense System capabilities and assess system performance against projected threats
- Recommend and assess unconventional methods for missile defense and defeat
- Document results in study and analysis reports, point papers, and briefings
- Develop new missile defense concepts and assess feasibility, characterize and assess the fundamental scientific requirements to realize new concepts, and document the results
- Perform mission and component analysis to establish capability and performance baselines
- Formulate and recommend strategies for achieving the desired Missile Defense System architecture in a Capability Development Roadmap
- Validate developing solutions and mission needs. As solutions progress through development iteratively assess predicted performance and test plans against operational requirements
Basic Qualifications:
At a minimum, qualified candidates must have:
- A bachelor’s degree in a technical field such as engineering, mathematics, physical sciences, or
computer science. - At least 7 years of full-time professional experience in a technical field related to missile defense and/or technical analysis of a complex Department of Defense (DoD) weapon system.
- Must be eligible to obtain or have an active TOP SECRET clearance with SCI eligibility.
- Must be able to work at our customer site on Fort Belvoir in Fairfax County, Virginia.
