Defense Mission Expert, Senior
Huntsville
Friday, 01 May 2026
As an expert in missile defense systems, your unique background inspires you to think bigger, push further, and ask questions others don’t. We need your extensive knowledge and skills to guide teams as they solve some of our clients’ most complex problems and find solutions that keep our nation safe. As a Defense Mission Expert, you’ll bring your technical, analytical, and strategic expertise to work on projects related to fire control and weapon-target pairing for complex weapons systems. You’ll analyze and capture functional needs of the user community to enhance design and system capabilities for a critical defense system. We’ll look to you to identify, analyze, and evaluate complex systems, policies, and processes to improve operations. You’ll develop the next generation of U.S. missile defense systems and deliver solutions and capabilities to meet the homeland defense mission. Further, your career with us as you solve complex design, integration, and analytical problems. Join us. The world can’t wait. You Have: 5 years of experience with the design, development, testing, or analysis for Missile Defense Weapons Systems or Fire Control Systems Experience with weapon system requirements, design, and performance analysis for features such as engageability, interceptability, and lethality Experience developing software within an Agile framework and Dev. Sec. Ops infrastructure as part of a CI/ CD pipeline. Experience with embedded programming and scripting languages such as Rust, C, C , Python, Java, or JavaScript. Ability to effectively communicate, work independently and collaboratively on a cross-functional team, and demonstrate initiative to complete complex tasks to achieve program goals in a fast-paced environment. Secret clearance Bachelor’s degree. Nice If You Have: Experience with strategic and operational-level missile defense planning, employment, and concepts of operations. Experience implementing CI/ CD pipelines such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins. Experience designing the architecture and containerized services with Kubernetes. Knowledge of Systems Modeling Language (Sys. ML), DoD Architecture Framework (DoDAF), and Unified Architecture Framework (UAF)TS/ SCI clearance Master’s degree. Clearance:Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; Secret clearance is required. Compensation.