MISSILE MODELING ENGINEERS

Location

Colorado Springs, CO | United States

Job description

QTEC Aerospace is seeking multiple MISSILE MODELING ENGINEERS to join our team of professionals in Colorado Springs, CO. The successful candidates will become part of a team of professionals representing both industry and government in support of a Missile Defense System (MDS) with a mission of protecting the United States and our allies. The successful candidates will be detail oriented, have a proven track record and a positive work ethic.

Job Summary

QTEC Aerospace is looking for highly capable and motivated individuals. The successful candidates will function as an integral member of a multi-contractor team providing program, engineering, and technical support to Missile Defense programs.

Job Duties/Responsibilities

Responsibilities will include, but may not be limited to the following:

• Develop, analyze and quality control Radar Cross Section (RCS) models, produce RCS signatures, and be responsible for the verification and validation of RCS signatures
• Responsible for understanding RCS models, adjusting RCS models to work within the TMC's RCS generation framework, understanding and verifying RCS results, and providing documentation required for running threat data in Ground Test architectures.

Minimum Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics) discipline from an accredited university with at least 5 years of experience, or a Master's degree in a STEM discipline with at least 3 years of experience

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Good understanding of radar systems and RCS phenomenology, as well as modeling and simulation methods and processes
• Willing to work in new areas of development and be able to pioneer new capability development and requirements.
• Effectively communicate requirements and processes to fellow engineers, system engineers, software developers.
• Comfortable working with little or no direct supervision and work as an integral member of a geographically dispersed Agile cross functional team.
• Ability to collaborate with systems engineers, software engineers, model end users, and MDA ground test stakeholders to ensure product requirements are met
• Strong knowledge of Radar systems, Radar Cross Sections, scattering models.
• Ability to develop radar system model representations from radar specifications.
• Familiar with Computer Aided Design tools and models.
• Understanding of the flight characteristics, motion, and performance of missile systems.
• Understanding of electromagnetic energy transmission, reflection, scattering.
• Experience with verification and validation RCS simulation results.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams, and prepare and brief presentations to the customer as needed
• Self-motivated and customer-oriented, able to work in a dynamic team environment.

Desired Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Experience in modeling missile signature representations to include Radar Cross Section.
• Ability to run method of moments codes.
• Experience developing FACET models from CAD.
• Understanding and experience with High Performance Computing architectures.
• Ability to reduce simulation outputs to RCS averages and scattering point representations.

Security Clearance

Candidates must currently have and be able to maintain a minimum DoD SECRET level security clearance.

Salary Range

$120,000 - $183,000

Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results.

Benefits

QTEC Aerospace offers a variety of benefits including healthcare, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, 401(k) retirement plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business. Employees may choose among the offered benefits to design the best benefits package to suit their individual or family needs.

Location

Colorado Springs, CO

It is the policy of QTEC, Inc. not to discriminate on the basis of gender, age, race, religion, disability, veteran status or any protected statuses and to take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment qualified individuals within the company.

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$120k - $183k