What are the responsibilities and job description for the Aeroballistics Engineer position at Fed Strat?
Federal Strategies, a rapidly growing small business in Fredericksburg VA, is seeking a hardworking individual to support the United States Marine Corps Range and Training Area Management Division (RTAM). Must be a US Citizen with the ability to obtain a Secret Clearance, and ideally possess 2-5 years of ammunition design / testing experience. Familiarity with Ground-to-Ground, Air-to-Ground, weapon systems, explosives and the GIS based Range Manager’s Toolkit (RMTK) and WDALab desired.
Federal Strategies is looking for a motivated person to fill the role of Aeroballistics Engineer as part of our team designing and implementing new and existing methodologies for danger zone development and modelling. The danger zone development process is concerned with deriving and defining the delivery accuracy, ricochet, and failure behaviors of a particular weapon system based on available or obtainable impact / performance information from weapon manufacturers and simulation labs associated with the weapons program. Data consists of the factors and impact points necessary to determine the initial impact distribution (Delivery accuracy), ricochet impact distribution (spin stabilization / projectile deformation / explosion fragmentation), and failure mode impact distribution. These data are used to generate and define the danger zone that meets the USMC’s 1 : 1,000,000 containment / escapement, probability of hit / miss, as well as the angles and distance that comprise the parts of a danger zone.
Responsibilities include developing, testing, and incorporating danger zones for new weapons systems into the danger zone tools. Develop or analyze mathematical or statistical theory, methods, and models to collect, organize, interpret, and summarize numerical data to provide usable information supporting deterministic and probabilistic danger zone development. Serve as a technical point of contact to others both internal and external to customers. The applicant will be expected to provide subject matter expertise on existing weapon system models included in the RMTK and WDALab in order to explain, defend and justify the program impact prediction and containment behaviors of available weapon systems and munitions. The individual will provide remote support but will be required to travel from time to time in support of customers.
The Engineer may be appointed to serve as Deputy Program Manager for WDALab depending on experience and acumen.
Responsibilities
- Conceive, plan, direct, and conduct basic and applied research in projectile structures and their dynamic behavior.
- Be willing to learn software for modeling and simulation to study explosive and ballistic events and to analyze structural response.
- Have a good understanding of dynamic and static stress analysis and be able to develop technical approaches to achieve customer requirements to a successful conclusion.
- Work with minimal direction and develop or apply mathematical or statistical theory, computational techniques, algorithms, and latest computer technology to provide usable information to evaluate and synthesize data.
- Analyze operational / user requirements and perform functional analysis, testing and verification / validation of models and software.
- Develop mathematical models and processes, techniques and procedures to create new or substantially improved developmental methods.
- Develop detailed modeling methodologies for analyzing raw trials data, developing danger zones and defining new or improved probabilistic modelling solutions.
- Review, analyze, and summarize existing scientific data from disparate sources.
- Make recommendations for improvement to software design methodology.
- Prepare and present presentations and written documents summarizing efforts.
- Develop reports, software documentation, presentations, charts and spreadsheets in support of RTAM operations incorporating USMC standards as defined within various publications.
Qualifications
Benefits
401(k)
The following information aims to provide potential candidates with a better understanding of the requirements for this role.
401(k) matching
Dental insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Paid time off
Retirement plan
Vision insurance
Federal Strategies is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. The company does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, veteran, or any other legally protected status.
Employment Type
Full-time
Job Location
Remote
Date posted
December 13, 2024
Position : Aeroballistics Engineer
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