Chief MS&A Engineer

Job description

NextGen Federal Systems is seeking a Chief Modeling, Simulation and Analysis (MS&A) Engineer to lead our engineering efforts in either Dayton Ohio, Aurora Colorado, or Huntsville Alabama. ### Responsibilities - Serve as the Lead MS&A Engineer responsible for defining the technical strategy, architecture, and analytical approach for simulation and mission engineering activities. - Provide technical leadership to multidisciplinary teams of systems engineers, modeling and simulation engineers, software engineers, and mission analysts. - Develop technical roadmaps and establish MS&A priorities based on mission objectives, customer requirements, and program decision needs. - Present analytical results, technical findings, trade studies, and recommendations to Government customers and program leadership. - Establish MS&A best practices, including modeling priorities, analytical workflows, required tools, data, and enabling technologies. - Develop integrated MS&A workflows that connect system and subsystem models to evaluate end-to-end mission performance and system effectiveness. - Develop automated analytical workflows for scenario generation, model execution, data processing, optimization, visualization, and results assessment. - Apply tools including Ansys STK, Ansys Fluent, ModelCenter, Cameo Systems Modeler, MATLAB/Simulink, and other Government and commercial modeling and simulation tools. - Lead development of mission-level and system-level models and simulations supporting missile, space, Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD), and advanced weapon-system analysis. - Develop and integrate models supporting missile trajectories, engagement geometries, orbital mechanics, sensor performance, RF propagation, communications, EW, threat representation, and mission effectiveness. - Develop analytical mission threads addressing detection, tracking, targeting, engagement, intercept, battle management, and mission assessment. - Develop and integrate multidisciplinary models across domains including propulsion, guidance/navigation/control, aerodynamics, RF, radar, EO/IR, communications, EW, thermal, structures, and space systems. - Lead digital engineering activities in coordination with partner SMEs - Lead trade-space exploration, sensitivity analysis, optimization, Monte Carlo analysis, and Design of Experiments (DOE) to evaluate alternative system architectures, technologies, and mission concepts. - Lead verification and validation of models and analytical workflows to ensure results are technically credible, repeatable, and suitable for engineering decision-making. - Oversee a multi-tenanted digital engineering environment which integrates multiple COTS & GOTS modeling, simulation, and analysis tools. - Define, design, and implement APIs, adapters, and interfaces required to connect engineering models, simulations, data sources, and analytical tools. - Containerize, deploy, and test modeling and simulation capabilities within cloud and on-premises computing environments. ### Requirements - BS, MS, or PhD in Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, Applied Mathematics, or a related technical discipline. - 10+ years of systems engineering, modeling and simulation, digital engineering, or mission engineering experience. - Demonstrated experience leading technical teams performing missile, space, IAMD, aerospace, or weapon-system modeling and analysis. - Experience developing and executing system-level and mission-level simulations to support engineering decisions, architecture assessments, trade studies, and mission effectiveness analysis. - Experience in one or more of the following technical areas: - Missile trajectories and flight dynamics - Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) - Missile engagement and intercept analysis - Satellites, orbital mechanics, and space mission analysis - Radar, RF, EO/IR, and sensor performance - Communications and data-link architectures - Integrated Air and Missile Defense - Command and Control / Battle Management - Threat and weapon-system performance - Experience performing trade studies, sensitivity analyses, optimization, Monte Carlo analysis, DOE, and mission effectiveness assessments. - Experience developing technical artifacts including requirements, CONOPS, mission threads, system architectures, analytical plans, interface definitions, test plans, and analysis reports. - Experience working within Agile software development and DevSecOps engineering environments.