Missile Performance and Simulation Engineer

• Develop and utilize missile system modeling and simulation tools to conduct trade studies, performance assessments, and conceptual design studies of ATBM interceptors

• Derive Missile Simulation requirements from ETE Simulation requirements and provide a Verification & Validation Plan

• Analyze problems spanning missile design and performance, Missile Up-/downlink scheduling in ballistic missile defense scenarios and early-stage hardware design.

• Formulate, develop, and implement state-of-the-art physics-based/empirical models for conceptual design and performance analysis of missile components especially RF & IR seeker.

• Distill complex technical analysis into actionable insights; communicate findings to technical experts, executive management, and to inform critical technical and programmatic decisions.

• Translate operational needs and real-world threat characteristics including signature into mathematical formulations suitable for modeling, simulation, and optimization.

• Participate in missile test and evaluation activities to include test operations and pre/post flight evaluations

• Be able to implement (pseudo) random number generators (RNG)

• Support missile subsystem trade studies, designs, and analysis for an ATBM missile system, including one or more of the following:

- 3DOF and 6DOF model development, integration and verification

- Performance prediction and verification
- Both high fidelity (e.g. physics-based) and low fidelity (e.g. parameterized) seeker modeling

• Stay updated with the latest advancements in simulation and Guidance technology and incorporate innovative solutions into designs.

• Analyze and interpret test data to validate ETE Missile Model & simulation

• Assess the performance of the Mark-X missile subsystems, including one or more of the following:

- Pre-flight performance prediction using 6 DOF models, covariance analysis, etc...