Range Safety and Flight Termination Engineer

Avion Solutions Inc., a 100% employee-owned company, is seeking candidates for a Range Safety and Flight Termination Engineer to support the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) in Huntsville, AL.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the Range Safety expert on behalf of the Targets Program office during flight tests, Range Safety Working Groups, and flight termination testing.
• Provide oversight of requirements development, allocation, and verification for target system Flight Termination Systems (FTS) products, including autonomous flight termination systems.
• Conduct technical surveillance across FTS hardware and software development, qualification, acceptance, integration, and final checkout.
• Author technical reports detailing system status, analytical findings, and formal recommendations.
• Represent government stakeholder interests in technical working groups, customer forums, and formal design reviews.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Master’s degree with 12+ years of experience, or a Bachelor’s degree with 20+ years of experience, supporting missile defense or large-scale, complex DoD programs.
• Demonstrated background in flight termination systems and ordnance systems.
• Proficient in flight safety analysis products, specifically RCC-319 and RCC-324.
• Working knowledge of range tracking architectures, including GPS, Inertial Measurement Units (IMU), and C-band tracking.
• Strong written and verbal briefing skills; willingness and ability to travel for mission deployments.
• Must be a U.S. citizen and have the ability to obtain/maintain a DoD security clearance.
• Must be able to travel up to 15% of the time.

Preferred Qualifications

• Direct experience with Autonomous Flight Termination Systems (AFTS).
• Hands-on flight test operations experience.
• Technical background in RF systems, antennas, batteries, and ordnance devices.
• 10+ years of experience in defense and aerospace.