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In this role, you will act as a trusted advisor to the program office, delivering critical assessments of prime contractor designs, technical plans, and target instrumentation layouts. You will serve as a technical anchor during major program milestones-from System Requirements through Product Acceptance-while seamlessly collaborating across multiple organizations, modeling teams, cost analysts, and schedulers to ensure items are delivered accurately and on time.\nWhat You'll Be Doing:\nEngineering Oversight & Design Assessment\nExpert Advisory: Serve as the technical expert on payload and countermeasure requirements development, analysis, design, qualification, and fielding.\nIndependent Evaluation: Review and provide assessments of prime contractor designs, plans, reports, and technical procedures.\nInstrumentation Analysis: Evaluate target instrumentation requirements, physical layouts, component selection, and testing methodologies\nProgram Milestone & Lifecycle Support\n Milestone Reviews: Provide technical evaluation and engineering support during all major program milestones (including SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, FRB, MRB, and PAR).\n Cross-Agency Coordination: Answer technical inquiries from external MDA organizations and lead multi-disciplinary Technical Interchange Meetings (TIMs).\nProgram Management & Operations Collaboration\nCost Estimation: Provide technical assessments to the cost analysis team to ensure accurate program management budget estimates.\nSchedule Alignment: Partner with the program scheduler to track delivery deadlines and proactively keep leadership advised of status.\nWhat Required Skills You'll Bring:\nSecurity Clearance: Active DoD Secret clearance\nEducation & Experience: Master's degree in STEM and 12+ years supporting missile defense or large-scale, complex DoD programs.\nProgram Execution: Experience managing end-to-end program lifecycles, including the development, testing, and fielding of complex systems.\nAdaptability: Thrive in a fast-paced environment where priorities change quickly.\nMultitasking: Handle multiple urgent tasks at once without losing focus.\nTravel: Able to support travel request up to 20% of the time.\nWhat Desired Skills You'll Bring:\nUnderstanding of IR/RCS signatures for flight objects and countermeasures.\nExperience with material properties and material property measurements.\nKnowledge of real-world threat systems and how they impact target designs.\nHave an understanding of MDA flight test requirements and apply that to the payload hardware development.\nTechnical proposal development and evaluation.","description_format":"text","description_chars":2747,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":12,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"master","optional":false},"security_clearance":true,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Artificial Intelligence","Machine Learning","Industrial Engineering"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-11T23:11:43Z"}],"liveness":{"score":34,"band":"fade","label":"Fading","p_open":1,"p_active":0.623,"p_room":0.55,"age_days":34,"expected_fill_days":31,"reasons":["conf:5","velocity","win:tail"],"computed_at":"2026-10-01T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/apextk-principal-systems-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/apextk-principal-systems-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-01T22:04:09Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":4740,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":260,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-02T00:00:00Z"}}}