M&S Integration Engineer/Manager

About the role

The M&S Integration Engineer supports the mission of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Engineering Directorate Modeling & Simulation (M&S) Office (DES) in the role of Integration Manager (IM) to test the Missile Defense System (MDS) in a distributed Hardware-In-the-Loop (HWIL) simulation environment, including MDS Ground Test (GT) events and MDS Flight Test support (pre-mission risk reduction, mission execution team training, and post-flight reconstruction).

Responsibilities

• Participates in all phases of the M&S Framework integration for the MDA Ground Tests events, Flight Tests and Continual Developmental Integration (CDI) activities.
• Supports test planning, functionality tracing, understanding OSF Framework (FW) build requirements and ensuring they are being met in these events/activities.
• Serves as the DES-I representative in the GT/FT events and CDIs, providing support as an interface/focal point for the DT MTD, interface with the Integrator/NOSC to resolve OSF Framework issues and coordinate DES-I Teams response.
• Drafts and distributes End-of-Day reports (EODs) to the DES community to keep the DES-I Teams apprised of event execution progress.
• Covers communications (phone lines, bridges, SVOIPs, etc.) between labs supporting CDI, GT and FT Events for M&S teams.
• Drafts and submits PERSTAT (Personnel Status) reports for deployed personnel supporting GT/FT Events, ensures all site required pre-requisites for team are tracked and completed prior to travel, works with contract travel coordinator for team travel requirements.
• Aids the Event Mission Manager in conducting DES-I Internal Coordination Brief meetings for assigned GT/FT events.
• Aids in drafting and updating meeting briefing slide deck, schedules and facilitates meetings, and provides action item lists as necessary.
• Coordinates scheduling of test resources (facilities, personnel, etc.) to support Missile Defense System-level test events and/or CDI activities.
• Must be willing to support travel (10%) to coordinate/monitor test support, support technical interchange meetings, and test coordination and planning meetings.
• Engages M&S product configuration management for events, including the routing, tracking and coordination of Change Requests (CRs), on-console software & configuration changes, etc.
• Must be willing to support occasional off-nominal work hours (nights / weekends).

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM or related field and Minimum of 5 years’ experience and a Bachelor degree; OR equivalent years of experience without degree.
• Capable of working in a technically challenging environment and interfacing with simulation framework developers; test event integration personnel; data analysts; and event planners, testers, and other stakeholders.
• Self-starter capable of working with minimal direction.
• Good understanding of the overall MDS infrastructure and Element capabilities.
• Strong interpersonal and analytical skills to work as a team player.
• Willingness to support travel (10%) to coordinate/monitor test support, support technical interchange meetings, and test coordination and planning meetings.
• Entry-level familiarity with real-time distributed simulation infrastructures; MDS Element configurations and operations; and DoW Operational Testing (OT) and Development Testing (DT).

Preferred Requirements

• Experience supporting integrated system test events.
• Experience with staffing coordination.
• Entry-level familiarity with real-time distributed simulation infrastructures; MDS Element configurations and operations; and DoW Operational Testing (OT) and Development Testing (DT).