M&S PRODUCT TEAM LEAD

QTEC Aerospace is seeking a MODELING & SIMULATION (M&S) PRODUCT TEAM LEAD to join our team of professionals in Colorado Springs, CO. The successful candidate will become part of a team of professionals representing both industry and government in support of a Missile Defense System (MDS) with a mission of protecting the United States and our allies. The successful candidate will be detail oriented, have a proven track record and a positive work ethic.

Job Summary

QTEC Aerospace is looking for highly capable and motivated individuals. The successful candidate will function as an integral member of a multi-contractor team providing program, engineering, and technical support to Missile Defense programs. The M&S Product Team Lead will be developing emulators, integrating 3rd party simulators, developing scenarios, and anchoring models and system behaviors for the organization on the program at Schriever Space Force Base, CO, which supports the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and Space Force (SF) customers.

Job Duties/Responsibilities

Responsibilities will include, but may not be limited to the following:

• Support a broad range of topics, with increasing scope and complexity as assigned including, but not limited to:
  • the development of sensor emulation, interface exchange behaviors, scenario development, coordinate transforms of state vectors and covariances between various coordinate systems transformations, implementation of Kalman filtering, radar signal processing, various metaheuristics for performance optimization problems, and use case development and testing
• Work closely with agile teams to understand concepts, algorithms, and logging in order to prototype M&S Tools and generate scenario datasets
• Utilize math, physics, statistics, data parsing, plotting, and database techniques to develop Algorithm Description Documents (ADDs) and algorithm reference implementations and commit them to Git repositories for version control
• Develop unit tests, preferably as Cucumber scenarios, in order to support the transition and development of MATLAB reference implementations in Java
• Use DevSecOps principles to setup and maintain nightly pipelines to support automated analysis / test and continuous integration testing of algorithm reference implementations
• Provide demonstrations of their ADDs and reference implementations as part of Agile sprints with their respective Integrated Product Team (IPT) to the program Project Owners (POs) and Release Train Engineer (RTE)
• Provide technical support to the IPTs in order to develop M&S tools that help verify and validate the tactical implementation of algorithms
• Develop technical briefs and present briefings to both internal and external stakeholders at Technical Interchange Meetings (TIMs)
• Complete understanding and wide application of technical principle, theories, and concepts in the field
• General knowledge of other related disciplines
• Frequently interface internally with IPT of other systems engineers, software developers, and analysts
• Frequently interface external contacts and government customer
• Represent the organization in providing solutions to difficult technical issues
• Interfacing with the RTE and POs in order to develop and maintain the M&S IPT Backlog within JIRA
• Contribute to the M&S IPT completion of stories
• Mentor junior engineers on the M&S IPT

Minimum Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in physics, Mathematics, or related Science, Engineering discipline, or equivalent combination of education and experience, with at least 9 years of experience or a related Master's degree at least 7 years of experience

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Strong math and physics, including probability and statistics, linear algebra, and calculus
• Must have ability to use MATLAB or similar languages (Python, Perl, Bash, Mathematica, JavaScript, etc.) to perform prototyping, data visualization, scripting, parsing, and functional programming
• Developing and working with mathematical models
• Algorithm engineering to solve computer algorithm problems, including design, analysis, implementation, optimization, profiling, and experimental evaluation
• Systems engineering and software engineering processes and principles
• Be able to work both independently and in a team environment
• Must have the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams, and prepare and brief presentations to the customer as needed
• Self-starter with ability to work both independently and in a team environment

Desired Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Strong analytical skill including Monte Carlo analysis and statistical regression
• The ability to use MATLAB, Linux, databases, Git, Bitbucket, Jenkins/Hudson, Jira, Cucumber, Confluence, Twiki, and regular expressions
• Familiarity with Linux and/or Unix based development
• Modeling and simulation of large complex systems
• Machine learning techniques and metaheuristics
• Verification & Validation (V&V) testing of complex software systems
• Surveillance and target acquisition, track state estimation and correlation, track-to-truth mapping, state vectors, tracking covariances, coordinate conversions, time conversions, and EOIR/RF phenomenology, scheduling and resource management, identification and discrimination, battle management, signal processing, and/or orbital dynamics
• Agile software development processes
• Distributed application environments coded in Java, C++, or other Object-Oriented languages.
• Current DoD Top Secret security clearance
• Capability of supporting occasional domestic and foreign travel
• Capability of supporting occasional off-duty hours

Security Clearance

Candidates must currently have and be able to maintain a minimum DoD SECRET level security clearance.

Salary Range

$150,000 - $224,000

Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results.

Benefits

QTEC Aerospace offers a variety of benefits including healthcare, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, 401(k) retirement plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business. Employees may choose among the offered benefits to design the best benefits package to suit their individual or family needs.

Location

Colorado Springs, CO

It is the policy of QTEC, Inc. not to discriminate on the basis of gender, age, race, religion, disability, veteran status or any protected statuses and to take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment qualified individuals within the company.