OverviewPrincipal Engineer
Redstone Arsenal, AL
Venturi, LLC A Chenega Company has a challenging career opportunity for a Principal Engineer who will provide engineering oversight for target system payloads and countermeasure development for the Missile Defense Agency. This Engineer will function as a trusted advisor to the program office, delivering critical assessments of prime contractor designs, technical plans, and target instrumentation layouts. You will serve as a technical anchor during major program milestones—from System Requirements through Product Acceptance—while seamlessly collaborating across multiple organizations, modeling teams, cost analysts, and schedulers to ensure accurate and timely delivery of items.
Responsibilities
Engineering Oversight & Design Assessment
- Expert Advisory:Serve as the technical expert on payload and countermeasure requirements development, analysis, design, qualification, and fielding.
- Independent Evaluation:Review and provide assessments of prime contractor designs, plans, reports, and technical procedures.
- Instrumentation Analysis:Evaluate target instrumentation requirements, physical layouts, component selection, and testing methodologies
Program Milestone & Lifecycle Support
- Milestone Reviews:Provide technical evaluation and engineering support during all major program milestones (including SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, FRB, MRB, and PAR).
- Cross-Agency Coordination:Answer technical inquiries from external MDA organizations and lead multi-disciplinary Technical Interchange Meetings (TIMs).
Program Management & Operations Collaboration
- Cost Estimation:Provide technical assessments to the cost analysis team to ensure accurate program management budget estimates.
- Schedule Alignment:Partner with the program scheduler to track delivery deadlines and proactively keep leadership advised of status.
- Perform other duties as assigned
Qualifications
- Master's degree in STEM and 12+ years of experience supporting missile defense or large-scale, complex DoD programs
- Active DoD Secret clearance
- Successfully pass background and drug screening
Preferred Qualifications:
- Understanding of IR/RCS signatures for flight objects and countermeasures.
- Experience with material properties and material property measurements.
- Knowledge of real-world threat systems and how they impact target designs.
- Understand MDA flight test requirements and apply that understanding to the payload hardware development.
- Technical proposal development and evaluation.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Program Execution: Experience managing end-to-end program lifecycles, including the development, testing, and fielding of complex systems.
- Adaptability: Thrive in a fast-paced environment where priorities change quickly.
- Multitasking: Handle multiple urgent tasks at once without losing focus.
- Travel: Able to support travel request up to 20% of the time.
How you’ll grow
At Chenega MIOS, our professional development plan focuses on helping our team members at every level of their careers to identify and use their strengths to do their best work every day. From entry-level employees to senior leaders, we believe there’s always room to learn.
We offer opportunities to help sharpen skills in addition to hands-on experience in the global, fast-changing business world. From on-the-job learning experiences to formal development programs, our professionals have a variety of opportunities to continue to grow throughout their careers.
Benefits
At Chenega MIOS, we know that great people make a great organization. We value our team members and offer them a broad range of benefits.
Learn more about what working at Chenega MIOS can mean for you.
