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Imagine Next!At Parsons, you can imagine a career where you thrive, work with exceptional people, and be yourself. Guided by our leadership vision of valuing people, embracing agility, and fostering growth, we cultivate an innovative culture that empowers you to achieve your full potential. Unleash your talent and redefine what’s possible.Job Description:\nParsons is seeking a highly skilled Principal Engineer to provide engineering oversight for target system payloads and countermeasure development.\nIn 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.\nWhat You'll Be Doing:\nServe as the technical expert on payload and countermeasure requirements development, analysis, design, qualification, and fielding.\nReview and provide assessments of prime contractor designs, plans, reports, and technical procedures.\nEvaluate target instrumentation requirements, physical layouts, component selection, and testing methodologies\nProvide technical evaluation and engineering support during all major program milestones (including SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, FRB, MRB, and PAR).\nAnswer technical inquiries from external MDA organizations and lead multi-disciplinary Technical Interchange Meetings (TIMs).\nProvide technical assessments to the cost analysis team to ensure accurate program management budget estimates.\nPartner with the program scheduler to track delivery deadlines and proactively keep leadership advised of status.\nWhat Required Skills You'll Bring:\nActive DoD Secret clearance\nMaster's degree in STEM and 12+ years supporting missile defense or large-scale, complex DoD programs.\nExperience managing end-to-end program lifecycles, including the development, testing, and fielding of complex systems.\nThrive in a fast-paced environment where priorities change quickly.\nHandle multiple urgent tasks at once without losing focus.\nAble 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.\n Security Clearance Requirement:\nAn active Secret security clearance is required for this position.This position is part of our Federal Solutions team.The Federal Solutions segment delivers resources to our US government customers that ensure the success of missions around the globe. Our intelligent employees drive the state of the art as they provide services and solutions in the areas of defense, security, intelligence, infrastructure, and environmental. We promote a culture of excellence and close-knit teams that take pride in delivering, protecting, and sustaining our nation's most critical assets, from Earth to cyberspace. Throughout the company, our people are anticipating what’s next to deliver the solutions our customers need now.Salary Range: $134,100.00 - $241,400.00We value our employees and want our employees to take care of their overall wellbeing, which is why we offer best-in-class benefits such as medical, dental, vision, paid time off, Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), 401(k), life insurance, flexible work schedules, and holidays to fit your busy lifestyle!Parsons is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other protected status.We truly invest and care about our employee’s wellbeing and provide endless growth opportunities as the sky is the limit, so aim for the stars! Imagine next and join the Parsons quest-APPLY TODAY!Parsons is aware of fraudulent recruitment practices. 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