Modeling & Simulation Developer Job Listing at SPA in Ogden, UT (Job ID 2024-18628)

Description

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of demonstrated experience in engineering or management support of defense systems, technology, or research and development activities.
• A Bachelor's degree or higher in: Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical, or Software Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or a related technical field.
• Understanding of agile software development practices and procedures.
• Experience with 6-degree-of-freedom simulations or modeling and simulation.
• Developer level proficiency with coding languages such as C++, Fortran, Python, etc.

Desired Qualifications: 

• Master's Degree.
• The ability to achieve and maintain a US DoD Top Secret Security Clearance. Active security clearance is preferred, but not required.
• 3 years of experience in systems design, integration and analysis of military hardware and software systems/processes.

This Senior MS&A Developer will serve as an integral part of the LGM-35A Sentinel Aerospace Vehicle Equipment (AVE) Analysis Branch. The AVE Division has a critical function within the Sentinel program, evaluating the design of solid rocket motors; guidance equipment; and post-boost propulsion systems. The Analysis Branch is developing a six degrees of freedom (6-DOF) model to evaluate flight performance of the Sentinel ICBM currently in development. The successful candidate will work with a team of dedicated and experienced engineers and developers to complete this 6-DOF simulation as well as other critical MS&A tools.

This Senior MS&A Developer will assist the team in the creation, review, and test of advanced rocket and missile dynamics and performance simulations. The ideal candidate can: apply extensive engineering knowledge to ensure correct principles, theories, concepts, practices, and techniques are integral to the MS&A tools which they are developing; ensure accuracy and completeness of content, recommending corrective actions and providing support to programmatic and technical briefings, reports and other related documentation; and be able to plan, coordinate, execute, and complete tasks related to engineering processes, protocols, and implementation for the LGM-35A Sentinel System Program Office.