​Senior Defense Technologist – Land Warfare

Responsibilities

• Serve as a subject matter expert (SME) for platforms, systems, and capabilities within the land domain, advising on their integration into multi-domain warfare scenarios.
• Conduct detailed technical and operational assessments of emerging land warfare capabilities and their roles in joint campaigns.
• Integrate land warfare insights into campaign analyses, modeling and simulation, and experimentation.
• Evaluate technology performance, feasibility, operational benefit, and potential transition pathways.
• Identify and communicate land capability gaps, opportunities, and priorities to DoW stakeholders.
• Support development of study requirements, test objectives, modeling inputs, and analytical methodologies.
• Work with DoW stakeholders (Joint Staff, Combatant Commands, Service Components) to advocate for investments in land warfare capabilities that demonstrate operational value in campaign scenarios.
• Cook up with stakeholders across the Joint Force to advocate for the incorporation of advanced land warfare systems and architectures into military planning efforts.
• Provide expert input into the development and transition of novel land warfare technologies from R&D programs into operational force structures.
• Support evaluations of technology viability and readiness for integration into joint force operations.
• Engage with senior DoW leadership to provide land warfare insights that inform strategic and operational decisions.
• Navigate foreign disclosure, classification, and tech transition processes.

Qualifications

• Required: 15 years of experience working with advanced land warfare technologies, systems, and platforms with emphasis on: Supporting development and implementation of advanced land warfare technologies and systems. Planning, developing, and executing R&D-oriented technical projects tied to operational missions. Conducting research and analyses that combine operational expertise with innovative technology approaches. Assessing military effectiveness, engineering viability, and operational integration of land systems. Working within DoW environments (e.g., Joint Staff, military services, or Combatant/Functional Commands) to advance capability development. Applying advanced techniques, theories, and practices in technology programs, ideally with transition to operational use. Executing technology transition efforts.
• Preferred: Staff-level, Headquarters-level, Joint/Combatant Command experience.
• Education: Master’s degree in physics, chemistry, mathematics, engineering, or related technical discipline. Doctoral/Terminal degree in physics, chemistry, mathematics, engineering, or a related technical discipline (preferred).