Principal Missile Systems Simulation, Test & Analysis Engineer
AI summary of the role
Senior technical contributor for a next-generation counter-UAS missile program, responsible for modeling and simulation, guidance and control, seeker/radar integration, flight-test planning, and post-test analysis.
What you’ll do
- Develop, maintain, and validate six-degree-of-freedom missile simulations for design, performance analysis, and test preparation.
- Analyze telemetry, radar, seeker, RF, and optical data from lab, ground, captive-carry, and live-fire tests to identify system deficiencies.
- Support hardware-in-the-loop, software-in-the-loop, and end-to-end missile testing, including flight-test planning and real-time operations.
- Investigate complex system anomalies across sensors, timing, communications, navigation, guidance, control, software, and hardware.
What you’ll bring
- Bachelor's degree in electrical, aerospace, mechanical, computer engineering, physics, applied mathematics, or related field.
- Minimum 10 years of relevant engineering experience in missile systems, aerospace, or defense-system testing.
- Demonstrated experience developing or using six-degree-of-freedom flight or missile simulations.
- Strong knowledge of guidance, navigation and control, including guidance laws, autopilots, state estimation, and flight dynamics.
Technologies
six-degree-of-freedom simulation · MATLAB/Simulink · Python · C++ · Kalman filtering · state estimation · guidance navigation and control · radar modeling · seeker modeling · hardware-in-the-loop · telemetry analysis · Missile DATCOM
About Bluehalo
Builds mission-critical defense systems across space communications, counter-drone, directed energy, EW/cyber, and autonomous maritime missions for U.S. and allied government customers.
Acquired · 2000–5000 people
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Worker Type Regular Job Description Next Generation Counter-Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-UAS) Missile Program Location: Huntsville, Alabama Work Arrangement: Primarily on-site, with travel to integration and flight-test locations Clearance: Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance Citizenship: U.S. citizenship required Position Overview We are seeking a highly experienced Missile Systems Simulation, Test & Analysis Engineer to support the development, integration, and flight testing of a next-generation counter-unmanned aircraft system missile. This position will serve as a senior technical contributor across missile system modeling and simulation, guidance and control, seeker and radar integration, flight-test planning, and post-test analysis. The successful candidate will connect simulation predictions, laboratory testing, hardware performance, and
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Worker Type Regular Job Description Next Generation Counter-Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-UAS) Missile Program Location: Huntsville, Alabama Work Arrangement: Primarily on-site, with travel to integration and flight-test locations Clearance: Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance Citizenship: U.S. citizenship required Position Overview We are seeking a highly experienced Missile Systems Simulation, Test & Analysis Engineer to support the development, integration, and flight testing of a next-generation counter-unmanned aircraft system missile. This position will serve as a senior technical contributor across missile system modeling and simulation, guidance and control, seeker and radar integration, flight-test planning, and post-test analysis. The successful candidate will connect simulation predictions, laboratory testing, hardware performance, and flight-test results to identify system deficiencies and drive rapid technical improvements. This role requires broad systems-level understanding and the ability to work across guidance, navigation and control; radar and RF sensors; flight software; telemetry; system integration; and test operations. The engineer must be comfortable developing analysis tools, investigating complex system behavior, working directly with flight hardware and technical teams, and communicating findings to program leadership an [... source excerpt omitted ...] representative threat profiles. · Integrate aerodynamic models, propulsion characteristics, seeker and radar models, environmental effects, state estimators, autopilot logic, and production-representative GNC software into system simulations. · Use simulation to support sensor requirement development, engagement-envelope analysis, guidance-law evaluation, autopilot gain tuning, and missile performance optimization. · Analyze missile telemetry, radar tracks, seeker data, RF data, network traffic, inertial measurements, and optical truth data from laboratory, ground, captive-carry, and live-fire testing. · Develop software tools that allow engineers and operators to visualize tes [... source excerpt omitted ...] nd signal-processing analysis, including calibration, measurement-error characterization, filtering, and sensor-performance evaluation. · Support evaluation of system performance requirements and recommend technically sound improvements to missile hardware, software, algorithms, interfaces, and test processes. · Prepare technical reports, test plans, analysis briefings, and recommendations for engineering teams, program leadership, customers, and system users. · Collaborate closely with missile designers, flight-software developers, GNC engineers, seeker and radar engineers, systems engineers, test personnel, government customers, and external suppliers. · Provide technical direc
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