Principal Engineer

What you'll do: Engineering oversight & design assessment Expert advisory: serve as the technical expert on payload and countermeasure requirements development, analysis, design, qualification, and fielding Independent evaluation: review and provide assessments of prime contractor designs, plans, reports, and technical procedures Instrumentation analysis: evaluate target instrumentation requirements, physical layouts, component selection, and testing methodologies Program milestone & lifecycle support Milestone reviews: provide technical evaluation and engineering support during all major program milestones (including SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, FRB, MRB, and PAR)Cross-agency coordination: answer technical inquiries from external MDA organizations and lead multi-disciplinary Technical Interchange Meetings (TIMs)Program management & operations collaboration Cost estimation: provide technical assessments to the cost analysis team to ensure accurate program management budget estimates Schedule alignment: partner with the program scheduler to track delivery deadlines and proactively keep leadership advised of status

Required qualifications: Security clearance: active DoD Secret clearance

Education & experience: Master's degree in STEM and 12+ years supporting missile defense or large-scale, complex DoD programs Program execution: experience managing end-to-end program lifecycles, including the development, testing, and fielding of complex systems Adaptability: thrive in a fast-paced environment where priorities change quickly Multitasking: handle multiple urgent tasks at once without losing focus

Travel: able to support travel requests up to 20% of the time

Preferred qualifications: Understanding of IR/RCS signatures for flight objects and countermeasures Experience with material properties and material property measurements Knowledge of real-world threat systems and how they impact target designs Understanding of MDA flight test requirements applied to payload hardware development Technical proposal development and evaluation Apply directly: https://jobs.gusto.com/postings/telesis-research-llc-principal-engineer-598597fb-ec8e-46ed-98ed-9ef351526fb0