Specter Aerospace is seeking an Operations Analysis Engineer III-IV to support the design and analysis of high-speed airbreathing testbed vehicles. A successful candidate will have prior experience conducting survivability and performance assessments of weapon systems, to include engagement and mission level simulations.
Role & Responsibilities
- Lead and execute survivability assessments of novel, high-speed weapon systems to support on-going programs
- Create and validate vehicle performance models in AFSIM
- Develop and debug threat IADS simulations in AFSIM
- Conduct engagement simulations using TMAP and ESAMS
- Develop tools in Python and MATLAB to support the performance analysis of weapon systems
- Effectively communicate results to internal and external stakeholders to include government and military officials
- Support trajectory optimization efforts (3DOF/6DOF)
- Other duties as assigned by the company
Job Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Math, Computer Science, Physics, or other related discipline
- 3+ years of relevant full-time experience
- Experience conducting engagement-level analysis of high-speed weapon systems using ESAMS or TMAP
- Experience conducting mission-level simulations in support of weapon system development using AFSIM
- Experience utilizing Linux computers for simulations and experience with HPC interfaces
- Proficiency in MATLAB and Python to support tool development
- Ability to obtain a DoD security clearance (U.S. Citizenship required)
Desired Skills
- Master's Degree in Engineering, Math, Computer Science, Physics, or other related discipline
- 7+ years of relevant full-time experience
- Experience leading survivability studies for weapon system development programs
- Experience working across classification levels to efficiently conduct survivability studies
- Experience communicating with government officials
- Software development experience (including CI/CD pipelines, Git/GitLab)
- Active DoD security clearance
