{"id":144136,"url":"https://alion.io/job/nextgen-federal-systems-chief-msa-engineer","title":"Chief MS&A Engineer","company":{"id":7117,"name":"NextGen Federal Systems","domain":"nextgenfs.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/nextgenfs","size_band":"51-200","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Lever","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":86,"open_postings":16,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.563,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":54,"computed_at":"2026-10-20T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Industrial Engineering","role_family":"Industrial Engineering","seniority":"head","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Dayton, United States","Huntsville, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":126000,"max_usd":245000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":628},"experience_years_min":10,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agile","optional":false},{"name":"C++","optional":false},{"name":"Docker","optional":false},{"name":"HPC","optional":false},{"name":"Java","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":false},{"name":"MATLAB","optional":false},{"name":"Podman","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Simulink","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-08-26T18:31:11Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-08-26","last_verified_at":"2026-10-20T19:25:50Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":55,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":0,"flags":[],"days_open":54},"description":"NextGen Federal Systems is seeking a Chief Modeling, Simulation and Analysis (MS&A) Engineer to lead our engineering efforts in either Dayton Ohio, Aurora Colorado, or Huntsville Alabama.\nResponsibilities\nServe as the Lead MS&A Engineerresponsible for defining the technical strategy, architecture, and analytical approach for simulation and mission engineering activities.\n\nProvide technical leadership to multidisciplinary teams of systems engineers, modeling and simulation engineers, software engineers, and mission analysts.\n\nDevelop technical roadmaps and establish MS&A priorities based on mission objectives, customer requirements, and program decision needs.\n\nPresent analytical results, technical findings, trade studies, and recommendations to Government customers and program leadership.\n\nEstablish MS&A best practices, including modeling priorities, analytical workflows, required tools, data, and enabling technologies.\n\nDevelop integrated MS&A workflows that connect system and subsystem models to evaluate end-to-end mission performance and system effectiveness.\n\nDevelop automated analytical workflows for scenario generation, model execution, data processing, optimization, visualization, and results assessment.\n\nApply tools including Ansys STK, Ansys Fluent, ModelCenter, Cameo Systems Modeler, MATLAB/Simulink, and other Government and commercial modeling and simulation tools.\n\nLead development of mission-level and system-level modelsand simulations supporting missile, space, Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD), and advanced weapon-system analysis.\n\nDevelop and integrate models supporting missile trajectories, engagement geometries, orbital mechanics, sensor performance, RF propagation, communications, EW, threat representation, and mission effectiveness.\n\nDevelop analytical mission threads addressing detection, tracking, targeting, engagement, intercept, battle management, and mission assessment.\n\nDevelop and integrate multidisciplinary models across domains including propulsion, guidance/navigation/control, aerodynamics, RF, radar, EO/IR, communications, EW, thermal, structures, and space systems.\n\nLead digital engineering activitiesin coordination with partner SMEs\n\nLead trade-space exploration, sensitivity analysis, optimization, Monte Carlo analysis, and Design of Experiments (DOE) to evaluate alternative system architectures, technologies, and mission concepts.\n\nLead verification and validation of models and analytical workflows to ensure results are technically credible, repeatable, and suitable for engineering decision-making.\n\nOversee a multi-tenanted digital engineering environmentwhich integrates multiple COTS & GOTS modeling, simulation, and analysis tools.\n\nDefine, design, and implement APIs, adapters, and interfaces required to connect engineering models, simulations, data sources, and analytical tools.\n\nContainerize, deploy, and test modeling and simulation capabilities within cloud and on-premises computing environments.\n\nRequirements\nBS, MS, or PhD in Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, Applied Mathematics, or a related technical discipline.\n\n10+ years of systems engineering, modeling and simulation, digital engineering, or mission engineering experience.\n\nDemonstrated experience leading technical teams performing missile, space, IAMD, aerospace, or weapon-system modeling and analysis.\n\nExperience developing and executing system-level and mission-level simulations to support engineering decisions, architecture assessments, trade studies, and mission effectiveness analysis.\n\nExperience in one or more of the following technical areas:\n\nMissile trajectories and flight dynamics\n\nGuidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC)\n\nMissile engagement and intercept analysis\n\nSatellites, orbital mechanics, and space mission analysis\n\nRadar, RF, EO/IR, and sensor performance\n\nCommunications and data-link architectures\n\nIntegrated Air and Missile Defense\n\nCommand and Control / Battle Management\n\nThreat and weapon-system performance\n\nExperience performing trade studies, sensitivity analyses, optimization, Monte Carlo analysis, DOE, and mission effectiveness assessments.\n\nExperience developing technical artifacts including requirements, CONOPS, mission threads, system architectures, analytical plans, interface definitions, test plans, and analysis reports.\n\nExperience working within Agile software development and DevSecOps engineering environments.\n\nExperience collaborating across Government customers, system engineers, software developers, mission analysts, and modeling and simulation teams.\n\nStrong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate complex analytical results to technical and Government leadership audiences.\n\nActive Top Secret security clearance with SCI eligibility.\n\nTechnical Qualifications\nExperience integrating ModelCenter, Ansys STK, MATLAB/Simulink, and/or equivalent engineering and MS&A tools.\n\nExperience developing analytical automation using Python, C++, and/or Java.\n\nExperience integrating engineering applications through APIs, data interfaces, messaging frameworks, and custom adapters.\n\nExperience deploying modeling and simulation applications using Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, and cloud-based computing environments.\n\nAbility to translate mission and system-level questions into Measures of Performance (MOPs), Measures of Effectiveness (MOEs), analytical experiments, and defensible engineering conclusions.\n\nAbility to work closely with software and systems engineers to evolve the overall modeling and digital engineering architecture.\n\nDesired Qualifications\nExperience supporting missile defense, hypersonics, strategic systems, space systems, IAMD, or advanced weapon-system programs.\n\nExperience with STK Astrogator, STK Analyzer, and/or STK EOIR.\n\nExperience with AFSIM or other mission-level constructive simulation environments.\n\nExperience developing digital mission engineering workflows connecting MBSE, physics-based models, mission simulations, and analytical results.\n\nExperience with model verification and validation, uncertainty quantification, and analytical credibility assessment.\n\nExperience with High Performance Computing (HPC) or distributed execution of large-scale simulation campaigns.\n\nExperience applying AI/ML to model development, simulation automation, surrogate modeling, optimization, or mission analysis.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6446,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":10,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":true,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["National Security","Custom Software Development"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-08-26T18:31:11Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":31,"band":"fade","label":"Fading","p_open":1,"p_active":0.559,"p_room":0.55,"age_days":54,"expected_fill_days":54,"reasons":["conf:3","stale_co","win:tail"],"computed_at":"2026-10-20T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/nextgen-federal-systems-chief-msa-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/nextgen-federal-systems-chief-msa-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-20T22:02:18Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":25743,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-21T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":7117},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=7117"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fnextgen-federal-systems-chief-msa-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fnextgen-federal-systems-chief-msa-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fnextgen-federal-systems-chief-msa-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/nextgen-federal-systems-chief-msa-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fnextgen-federal-systems-chief-msa-engineer"}]}