Modeling & Simulation Engineer - Level 3 or 4

About the role

The selected Modeling and Simulation Engineer will support the Ground Weapons System (GWS) program as an individual contributor on the System Performance and Analysis - Test Exerciser team. This role is responsible for providing technical contributions and guidance to modeling and simulation products that directly support the design and development of the GWS capability on behalf of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA).

Responsibilities

• Support the design and development of the GWS capability on behalf of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA)
• Provide technical contributions and guidance to modeling and simulation products
• Optimize runtime performance of algorithms or models and simulations
• Profile multithreaded or distributed systems
• Develop software using Object Oriented Design or SOLID principles
• Debug complex software systems
• Develop modeling and simulation software
• Familiarity with MBSE requirements derivation

Requirements

• Current active in-scope US Government issued Secret security clearance at the time of application
• Experience developing software for iTEx
• Experience working with OSF (Objective Simulation Framework) and GTISS (Ground Test Integrated System Simulation)
• Experience optimizing runtime performance of algorithms or models and simulations (C++ is a bonus)
• Experience profiling multithreaded or distributed systems
• Experience working with the Boost thread library
• Strong understanding of data structures, concurrency, and scalable/efficient software design

Qualifications

• Principal Modeling & Simulation Systems Engineer – Level 3: Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline preferred from an accredited university and 5 years of related experience, or a Master's Degree and 3 years of related experience, or 1 year of experience with a PhD.
• Sr. Principal Modeling & Simulation Systems Engineer – Level 4: Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline preferred from an accredited university and 8 years of related experience, or a Master's Degree and 6 years of related experience, or 4 years of experience with a PhD.

Skills

• Proficiency in strongly typed languages such as C, C++, or JAVA
• Experience with other software languages such as ADA or Python
• Experience with the Atlassian tool suite and software version control tools such as Git and Bitbucket

Benefits

• Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results
• Discretionary bonus in addition to base pay
• Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business

Pay

• Primary Level Salary Range: $108,800.00 - $163,200.00
• Secondary Level Salary Range: $135,800.00 - $203,600.00

Schedule

• Yes, 10% of the Time