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APEX TK 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.
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