FAST Labs Mission Assessments - Senior Systems Engineer

Location: Merrimack, New Hampshire

Job Description Do you like to use your analytic skills and operational mindset to help protect America, our citizens, and interests? Our employees design, integrate, and test the world’s next generation communication and electronic warfare systems for the United States DoW and international customers. You will be among the brightest minds, working on the aerospace and defense industry’s most difficult problems. Drawing strength from our differences, we’re innovating for the future. We put our customers first - exemplified by our mission: “We Protect Those Who Protect Us®.” Sound like a team you want to be a part of? Come build your career with us.

BAE Systems’ Mission Assessments (MA) organization is revolutionizing how mission-level operational analysis is planned, executed, and delivered. The Mission Assessments organization was created to address the rapidly increasing demand for mission-level operational analysis. Our mission is to achieve excellence in multidomain (MDO), systems-of-systems (SoS) Mission Assessments and effectively communicate the value of BAE Systems products to customers, DoW leadership and the warfighter. To do this we must bring together models of advanced technologies, weapons, platforms, and threats in relevant mission simulations - and then apply our deep subject matter expertise and experience to deliver assessments that can change the world.

BAE Systems’ Mission Assessments team is seeking highly motivated problem solvers to join the Operations Analysis team. Working as Operations Analysts they will collaborate with design teams assessing threats, developing and quantifying operational level systems requirements, developing operational systems concepts, and assessing mission effectiveness in simulated environments. The analyst will perform operational analysis studies using a wide variety of DoW existing and self-developed modeling & simulation tools.

Duties and Responsibilities may include:

• Perform mission simulation using government or industry standard tools to determine mission effectiveness.
• Perform engagement simulation using standard tools, MATLAB, Simulink and others.
• Perform modeling and simulation studies that optimize mission performance for weapon systems across the air, land, sea, space and cyber domains.
• Develop and apply advanced software and systems methods, theories and research techniques in the investigation, analysis and solution of complex and advanced technical problems.
• Visualization of the battlespace at a mission or engagement level.
• Use, develop, and modifying tools to support:
  • Data analysis of simulation or flight test results
  • Requirements analysis

• Typically a degree in a technical field such as Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, or Operations Research, and 4+ years of experience with a Bachelors or 2+ years of experience with a Masters
• Experience developing and using analysis tools such as MATLAB, Python, VBA, C/C++, or similar tools is required.
• Candidate must have a Secret clearance and the ability to obtain a Top Secret DoW clearance with SCI accesses

• The candidate will have critical thinking skills that will be exercised across multiple levels of detail.
• The candidate should enjoy problem solving and have the ability to produce concrete results despite significant ambiguities in the problem space.
• Experience in multiple tools such as AFSIM, STK, TMAP, ESAMS, or EWIR is a plus, AFSIM preferred
• Top Secret clearance is a plus