Full Time: Systems Engineering Senior

Location: Fort Eustis, VA
Work Arrangement: Primarily onsite
Clearance: Active Secret clearance; Interim Secret acceptable during onboarding
Travel: Up to 25%
Employment: Full-time; contingent upon contract award
Essnova is seeking a Senior Mission Systems Engineer to support multidisciplinary engineering, modeling and simulation, systems integration, and testing for U.S. Army aviation research and development.
Key Responsibilities

Develop technical reports, plans, procedures, studies, and white papers.
Perform engineering analyses related to component design, integration, and testing.
Apply engineering models to requirements definition, system architecture, software design, and hardware design.
Develop and execute material, subcomponent, full-system, and environmental test plans.
Develop modeling and simulation environments, architectures, and system-verification plans.
Define technical performance measures and perform post-test analysis.
Support simulations, human-in-the-loop evaluations, and field testing involving aircraft, avionics, mission computers, sensors, or weapons systems.
Monitor program execution, present technical results, and oversee less-senior personnel.
Requirements
Minimum Qualifications

ABET-accredited degree in Aerospace, Computer, Electrical, Mechanical, or Systems Engineering.
Bachelor’s degree with at least eight years of aviation/R&D test and modeling-and-simulation experience; master’s degree with at least six years; or doctoral degree with at least six years of aviation/R&D test experience and three years of modeling-and-simulation experience.
Experience developing test plans, analyses, and technical reports.
Ability to present findings at technical interchange meetings and senior-level briefings.
Active Secret clearance; Interim Secret acceptable during onboarding.
Ability to work primarily onsite at Fort Eustis and travel up to 25%.
Preferred Qualifications

Army aviation mission-systems or R&D experimentation experience.
Systems architecture, requirements, verification, avionics, sensors, weapons, or mission-computer experience.
Human-in-the-loop or field-testing experience.
Proposal Requirement
Selected candidates must provide a qualification-traceable résumé and sign a Letter of Commitment confirming availability at the anticipated start of contract performance.