Avionics Subject Matter Expert

About the role

The candidate will provide multi-disciplinary engineering support and will apply knowledge and experience in engineering principles, criteria, and procedures to Air Force systems, subsystems, and equipment procurement activities, post award project/program management tasks, and acquisition programs throughout their life cycles.

Responsibilities

• Support and develop large, major, and complex classified procurement requirements.
• Maintain a Top Secret level clearance, with the ability to obtain and maintain Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) access with Counterintelligence Polygraph.
• Provide services as described below to support DoD acquisition program management requirements.
• Develop, integrate, test, field, and support aircraft avionics hardware and software on an ACAT I or equivalent low observable aircraft program.
• Understand offensive and defensive avionics systems and their application to mission employment.
• Integrate sensors, communications, displays, processing, and navigation hardware and software components into an aircraft avionics system.
• Integrate avionics systems into aircraft systems.
• Integrate avionics systems onto a low observable aircraft.
• Flight test avionics systems on a low observable aircraft.
• Support development and review of the full range of documentation and products required by DoDI 5000.02.
• Affirm execution of the USAF Airworthiness process per MILHDBK-516 and the AF Life-Cycle Systems Engineering (LCSE) and Operational Safety, Suitability, and Effectiveness (OSS&E) processes as prescribed by AFMCI 63-1201.
• Support implementation of Air Force Integrity Programs.
• Support requirements development, allocation, and verification.
• Support review and evaluation of DoD’s system design, analyses, and verification documentation and reports.
• Gather and develop technical and business data necessary to build and, as required, present program briefs.
• Support program meetings, working groups, and technical and business reviews as needed.
• Analyze equipment and software performance deficiencies and make recommendations for corrective actions.
• Support development of contract and documentation changes and updates.
• Support source selections in a technical advisory role as requested.

Qualifications

• 10-12 years of progressive experience supporting and developing large, major, and complex classified procurement requirements.
• Top Secret level clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) access with Counterintelligence Polygraph.