Missile Defense Architecture Engineer

nou Systems, Inc. (nSI) is now officially a 100% ESOP company! We value teamwork and collaboration, and this transition allows us to take that commitment to a new level. nSI empowers our customers by supplying products, services, and expertise with powerful, data driven insights that transform defense systems and improve capabilities.

We are pleased to announce an opening for a Missile Defense Capabilities Engineer/Architect who will join our Engineering Services Team in Fort Belvoir, VA and become part of our rapidly growing technology company operating in missile defense, cybersecurity, test range modernization, and space control market spaces. Qualified candidates will be part of an exceptional team supporting the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) mission to develop and deploy a layered Missile Defense System to defend the United States, its deployed forces, allies, and friends from missile attacks in all phases of flight.

We have a critical opening for a Missile Defense Advanced Concepts Engineer supporting the MDA Advanced Architectures, Advanced Concepts Evaluation Team. This team performs evaluations for emerging advanced concepts and technologies to increase the effectiveness of the globally deployed Missile Defense System and makes recommendations to the MDA Chief Architect for new concept demonstrations and potential inclusion in future deliveries of MDS Elements.

The selected candidates will provide specialized engineering and analytical support to the Director, Advanced Concepts Evaluation, providing Missile Defense System Architecture updates and plans, and conducting qualitative and quantitative performance analyses, assessments, and special studies.

Duties include:

• Evaluate Missile Defense System capabilities and assess system performance against projected threats
• Leverage knowledge of OUSD(R&E) Critical Technology Area research to enhance existing MDS capability evaluations and propose potential future capability concepts
• Attending presentations, conferences and working groups from organizations spanning the DoD in order to capture Defense developments and their potential utility for missile defense
• Recommend and assess unconventional methods for missile defense and defeat
• Document results in study and analysis reports, point papers, and briefings
• Develop new missile defense concepts and assess feasibility, characterize and assess the fundamental scientific requirements to realize new concepts, and document the results
• Perform mission and component analysis to establish capability and performance baselines
• Formulate and recommend strategies for achieving the desired Missile Defense System architecture in a Capability Development Roadmap
• Validate developing solutions and mission needs. As solutions progress through development, iteratively assess predicted performance and test plans against operational requirements

• A bachelor’s degree in a technical field such as engineering, mathematics, physical sciences, or computer science.
• At least 5 years of full-time professional experience in a technical field related to missile defense and/or technical analysis of a complex Department of Defense (DoD) weapon system.
• Must be eligible to obtain or have an active TOP SECRET clearance with SCI eligibility.
• Must be able to work at our customer site on Fort Belvoir in Fairfax County, Virginia.

Lacking any one of these disqualifies any applicants from this job.

• Prior experience working in, or with, the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, OUSD(R&E), in Critical Technology Areas relevant to missile defense systems or potential future missile defense elements (including, but not limited to, directed energy, hypersonics, integrated sensing and cyber, advanced computing, space technology, microelectronics, integrated network systems-of-systems, and advanced materials).
• Special Access Program (SAP) experience
• Prefer master's degree in STEM field
• Prefer 7 years of relevant professional experience (or, without a master's degree, 20 years of experience is preferred)
• Prior experience analyzing one or more MDS elements or components…