Weapon Systems Engineer Job Listing at SPA in Alexandria, VA (Job ID 2024-18483)

Description

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Physical Science, or other STEM field.
• Active or prior DoD security clearance.
• Experience with data analytics (e.g. descriptive statistics, predictive modeling, data visualization), and this can include significant academic projects. 
• Experience in any of the following programming languages: Python, R, MATLAB, Java, C++.
• Demonstrated experience in any of the following technologies: Numpy, SciPy, matplotlib, scikit-learn, PyMC, Bokeh, plot.ly, CPLEX, Tableau, Qlik, Palisade Decision Tools (e.g. @Risk), SAS's JMP.
• Knowledge/course work of physics, aerodynamics, control theory, or applied mathematics.
• Proven ability to prioritize and execute workload to meet requirements and deadlines and be comfortable working in a fast paced environment conducting analysis with uncertainties or incomplete data.
• Must be capable of breaking down complex issues into simplified problem statements and laying out objective approaches to identify and compare the merits of competing solutions.

Desired Qualifications

• Active DoD TOP SECRET security clearance.  
• Master's Degree in a related field.   
• Experience with weapon system acquisition programs.  
• Preference for experience working with PyCharm, git, BitBucket, Jira, and Confluence.

Support the Navy SSP customer in a fast paced environment with modeling and simulation (M&S) and systems engineering activities. Participate on multidisciplinary study teams and perform the following activities: study planning; modeling and simulation development, evaluation, verification, validation, and execution; data extraction and analysis. Develop scientific simulations and data processing tools and work with the multidisciplinary team to create integrated analysis reports and recommendations to clients.  Provide support for the development of system requirements, specifications, and architecture.  Support system of systems integration activities for missile development programs.  This work is focused on weapon system modeling and analysis for both the technological and engineering aspects of weapon system design as well as modeling the concepts of operations for the weapon systems being analyzed.