MTSI is seeking a highly skilled
Principal Targets & Countermeasures Systems Engineer to provide engineering oversight for target system payloads and countermeasure development. In this role, you will act 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 items are delivered accurately and on time.
Job Responsibilities- Serve as the technical expert on payload and countermeasure requirements development, analysis, design, qualification, and fielding.
- Review and provide assessments of prime contractor designs, plans, reports, and technical procedures.
- Evaluate target instrumentation requirements, physical layouts, component selection, and testing methodologies
- Provide technical evaluation and engineering support during all major program milestones (including SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, FRB, MRB, and PAR).
- Answer technical inquiries from external MDA organizations and lead multi-disciplinary Technical Interchange Meetings (TIMs).
- Provide technical assessments to the cost analysis team to ensure accurate program management budget estimates.
- Partner with the program scheduler to track delivery deadlines and proactively keep leadership advised of status.
Required Qualifications- Active DoD Secret clearance
- Bachelor's degree and 7+ years supporting missile defense or large-scale, complex DoD programs.
- Experience managing end-to-end program lifecycles, including the development, testing, and fielding of complex systems.
- Thrive in a fast-paced environment where priorities change quickly.
- Handle multiple urgent tasks at once without losing focus.
- Able to support travel request up to 20% of the time.
Desired Qualifications- Master's degree in STEM and 12+ years supporting missile defense or large-scale, complex DoD programs.
- 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.
- Understanding of MDA flight test requirements and ability to apply those requirements to payload hardware development.
- Technical proposal development and evaluation.
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