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Principal Systems Engineer

Company Overview:

KODA is a people-first company recognized as a five-time winner of Huntsville's Best Places to Work Award, certified as a Great Place to Work, and a Best Place for Working Parents. KODA is a small business focused on solving complex engineering problems on national-priority projects in domains such as missile defense, hypersonics, DOD space, and civil space.

Our expertise spans Radar and Missile Development, Multi-Domain Operations, Flight and Ground Test Planning and Execution, Tactical Data Link Testing, Test Range Instrumentation, Systems Engineering and Integration, Model and Simulation Development, and Digital Engineering/Model-Based Systems Engineering.

The name KODA, a Native American word meaning 'allies', embodies our dedication to our customers and each other. Trust and integrity guide us in all we do. We prioritize our people, support national-priority missions, and give back to our community through the KODA Cares program. We offer competitive compensation, excellent benefits, and a commitment to professional growth. Join us and learn more at

www.kodatech.com.

Position Overview:

KODA Technologies is looking for a

Principal Systems Engineer- Ballistic Missile Defense Subject Matter Expert (BMD SME) to join our team! In this role you will get to facilitate the modeling, simulation, and analyses of future concepts that shape the future of the Missile Defense System (MDS) and respond to Warfighter needs.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Facilitate the definition of future concepts for modeling, simulation, and analysis
• Act as a subject matter expert in future concept definition, architecture analyses, and reviewing preliminary results prior to delivery to customer
• Assess MDS threats, capability gaps, challenges, needs and opportunities, and develop potential system mitigations and capability revolutions and evolutions at the architecture level
• Support modeling and simulation (MandS) efforts related to the above, including analysis efforts on DoD High Performance Computing (HPC)
• Develop analysis plans, run MandS to execute the analysis plan, perform analysis on the results, prepare analysis reports, and provide reviews of analysis products

What Required Skills

You'll

Bring:

• Master's Degree in STEM Field with 12+ years of experience in missile defense-related or other complex, large DoD program/project
• Active Secret clearance required with the ability to obtain a TS/SCI
• Extensive experience in the modeling, assessment, and evaluation of future missile defense architectures
• Deep understanding of the current MDS architecture and future concepts

What Desired Skills

You'll

Bring:

• Active TS/SCI Clearance
• Experience with the definition and use of advanced concepts and algorithms for the MandS of MDS architectures
• Experience with MandS and analysis of MDS architectures involving both directed and kinetic energy weapons and other future concepts
• Ability to develop and use MDS architecture simulations; knowledge of MATLAB and/or Python is a plus, including HPC experience and/or MBSE experience
• Experience supporting systems engineering-related architecture design activities
• Ability to perform technology assessment and analysis and provide insight on the utility of potentially useful technologies
• Experience with multidisciplinary analysis and optimization environments, including analysis of diverse physical phenomena
• Specialized MDS analysis experience in: threat characterization, trajectories, RF sensing/signatures, and/or EO/IR sensing/signatures
• Proven ability to coauthor numerous reports and provide significant contributions to MDS studies and responses to Congress
• Experience with Cyber gaps, mitigations, and future Cyber Architecture development
• Experience serving as a key advisor and collaborating on products that may go outside the Agency such as DoD, Services, Combatant Commands, industry experts, etc.

Minimum Clearance Required to Start:

• Active Secret clearance with ability to obtain TS/SCI

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