Engineer Scientist - Awards Writer

About the Role

Apogee has an exciting new opportunity for an Engineer Scientist-Awards Writer to support the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) onsite at Kirtland AFB, New Mexico. This full-time position fuses technical and engineering subject-matter expertise with business development and organizational development support. The role will produce high-quality technical proposals, white papers, business development packages, and organizational planning documents for AFRL Space Vehicles and Directed Energy directorates.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and lead development of competitive award proposals, grant/partnership narratives, white papers, and capability briefs that clearly present technical concepts, program benefit, and partnership value to funding and partner stakeholders.
• Translate technical team input (engineers, scientists) into persuasive, compliant technical narrative and cost/management descriptions for proposals and award submissions, ensuring technical accuracy while optimizing readability and alignment with evaluation criteria.
• Support development of partnership mechanisms and documentation (e.g., MOUs, teaming descriptions, enhanced use leases, or public/private partnership narratives).
• Support organizational development deliverables: draft diagnostic reports, capability alignment papers, organizational-improvement action plans, and change management communication collateral for directorates.
• Provide regular status and deliverable reporting (monthly status reports, CDRL submittals as required) and incorporate Government feedback into iterative drafts.
• Ensure proposals and other deliverables comply with program security, formatting, and submission requirements; coordinate with Program Manager and COR for approval and CDRL submission.

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. citizen.
• Must have and be able to maintain a Top-Secret clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, physical sciences, technical communications, or a related field.
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience combining technical subject-matter exposure (space, directed energy, or related defense R&D) and written proposal/awards experience.
• Experience drafting technical proposals, business development materials, and briefing/communications for senior leadership.
• Strong stakeholder facilitation skills — comfortable interviewing senior scientists/engineers and translating their input into structured narratives aligned with sponsor evaluation criteria.
• Clear, professional oral and written communication; proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint), and experience with proposal production tools and version control.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Experience supporting AFRL or DoD research directorates, with knowledge of AFRL mission areas (space vehicles, directed energy), program acquisition, and PPBE planning processes.
• Prior awards-winning track record (agency or mission-driven program awards, SBIR solicitations, internally-run AFRL solicitations).
• Familiarity with federal funding mechanisms, public/private partnerships, university teaming, and Historically Black Colleges & Universities/Minority Institutions engagement.
• Experience drafting organizational-development products: diagnostics, action plans, organizational charts, governance narratives.

Pay

USD $70,000.00 - USD $90,000.00 per year.