Advanced System Engineer

Company Overview

KODA is a people-first company recognized as a five-time winner of Huntsville's Best Places to Work® Award, certified as a Great Place to Work®, and a Best Place for Working Parents®. KODA is a small business focused on solving complex engineering problems on national-priority projects in domains such as missile defense, hypersonics, DOD space, and civil space.

Our expertise spans Radar and Missile Development, Multi-Domain Operations, Flight and Ground Test Planning and Execution, Tactical Data Link Testing, Test Range Instrumentation, Systems Engineering and Integration, Model and Simulation Development, and Digital Engineering/Model-Based Systems Engineering.

The name KODA, a Native American word meaning 'allies', embodies our dedication to our customers and each other. Trust and integrity guide us in all we do. We prioritize our people, support national-priority missions, and give back to our community through the KODA Cares program. We offer competitive compensation, excellent benefits, and a commitment to professional growth. Join us and learn more at www.kodatech.com.

Position Overview

KODA Technologies is looking for an Advanced System Engineer to join our team! In this role, you will help define and evaluate the Missile Defense System (MDS) Trade capability space envelope, architectural performance metrics, and other high-level performance metrics as applicable.

What You'll Be Doing

• Provide technical expertise on missile defense activities, including adversary capabilities, systems engineering, and evaluation.
• Remain cognizant of intelligence updates of new threat systems that affect future missile defense architectures.
• Evaluate the adequacy of the current MDS to include ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile defensive architecture to counter the threat, recommend courses of action for concept of operations and system improvements, and identify alternate strategies for affordable, cost-effective, and technically advanced systems.
• Evaluate and adapt analysis of Allied Missile Defense systems and how in defense of the Unified Command Theaters, those allied missile defense systems can be incorporated into U.S. missile defense systems to provide a more robust defense.
• Provide reach-back for consulting services for key MDS development expertise, facilitating efforts across internal/external stakeholders such as Services and Combatant Commanders providing strategic advice, guidance, and direction.
• Support, evaluate, analyze, and develop technical recommendations through exchanges with FFRDCs, UARCs, and OGAs to provide input on program process and technical improvement opportunities.
• Support Defense Architecture evolution strategy and development through assessment of interim and final results of Analysis of Alternatives and other analysis activities to include top-level requirements.
• Assist in the analysis, demonstrations, and tests to support early milestones and feasibility assessments, and to collect data to verify that architecture analysis assumptions are credible.
  
  

What Required Skills You'll Bring

• Master's degree in STEM field and 12 years of relevant experience.
• Active Secret clearance.
• Missile Defense experience.
• Be able to successfully accomplish the duties by working with minimal guidance.
  
  

What Desired Skills You'll Bring

• Knowledge of Hypersonic weapons and their capabilities and limitations.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel & PowerPoint) with emphasis on PowerPoint.
• Experience working with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) or it's members.
• Military or Logistics support with THAAD or other FMS programs with allied nations.
• Experience working Early Warning Systems.
• Have detailed knowledge of the MDS to include Command and Control networks, specifically C2BMC and LINK 16.
• Joint Services experience or Combatant Command experience.
• Space Systems experience.
  
  

KODA Technologies Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, status as a parent, national origin, disability (physical or mental), family medical history or genetic information, political affiliation, military service, or other non-merit based factors. If you are unable to complete this application due to a disability, contact info@kodatech.com to ask for an accommodation or an alternative application process.

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