Principal Systems Engineer - BMD SME

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Job Description:

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented  Principal Systems Engineer - Ballistic Missile Defense Subject Matter Expert (BMD SME) to join our team! In this role you will get to facilitate the modeling, simulation, and analyses of future concepts that shape the future of the Missile Defense System (MDS) and respond to Warfighter needs.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Facilitate the definition of future concepts for modeling, simulation, and analysis

• Act as a subject matter expert in future concept definition, architecture analyses, and reviewing preliminary results prior to delivery to customer

• Assess MDS threats, capability gaps, challenges, needs and opportunities, and develop potential system mitigations and capability revolutions and evolutions at the architecture level

• Support modeling & simulation (M&S) efforts related to the above, including analysis efforts on DoD High Performance Computing (HPC)

• Develop analysis plans, run M&S to execute the analysis plan, perform analysis on the results, prepare analysis reports, and provide reviews of analysis products

What Required Skills You'll Bring:

• Master's Degree in STEM Field with 12+ years of experience in missile defense-related or other complex, large DoD program/project

• Active Secret clearance required with the ability to obtain a TS/SCI

• Extensive experience in the modeling, assessment, and evaluation of future missile defense architectures

• Deep understanding of the current MDS architecture and future concepts

What Desired Skills You'll Bring:

• Active TS/SCI Clearance

• Experience with the definition and use of advanced concepts and algorithms for the M&S of MDS architectures

• Experience with M&S and analysis of MDS architectures involving both directed and kinetic energy weapons and other future concepts

• Ability to develop and use MDS architecture simulations; knowledge of MATLAB and/or Python is a plus, including HPC experience and/or MBSE experience

• Experience supporting systems engineering-related architecture design activities

• Ability to perform technology assessment & analysis and provide insight on the utility of potentially useful technologies

• Experience with multidisciplinary analysis and optimization environments, including analysis of diverse physical phenomena

• Specialized MDS analysis experience in: threat characterization, trajectories, RF sensing/signatures, and/or EO/IR sensing/signatures

• Proven ability to coauthor numerous reports and provide significant contributions to MDS studies and responses to Congress

• Experience with Cyber gaps, mitigations, and future Cyber Architecture development

• Experience serving as a key advisor and collaborating on products that may go outside the Agency, such as DoD, Services, Combatant Commands, industry experts, etc.

Minimum Clearance Required to Start:

Secret

This position is part of our Federal Solutions team.

Our Federal Solutions segment delivers resources to our US government customers that ensure the success of missions around the globe. Our diverse, intelligent employees drive the state of the art as they provide services and solutions in the areas of defense, security, intelligence, infrastructure, and environmental. We promote a culture of excellence and close-knit teams that take pride in delivering, protecting, and sustaining our nation's most critical assets, from Earth to cyberspace. Throughout the company, our people are anticipating what’s next to deliver the solutions our customers need now.

Salary Range: 

$140,700.00 - $253,300.00

We value our employees and want our employees to take care of their overall wellbeing, which is why we offer best-in-class benefits such as medical, dental, vision, paid time off, Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), 401(k), life insurance, flexible work schedules, and holidays to fit your busy lifestyle!

Parsons is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in the workplace. Diversity is ingrained in who we are, how we do business, and is one of our company’s core values. Parsons equally employs representation at all job levels for minority, female, disabled, protected veteran and LGBTQ+.

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