Position Description

As a member of the Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division (NAWCTSD), Research, Development, Test and Evaluation Department, Systems Engineering and Integration Division, you will work as part of a highly motivated and collaborative engineering team in support of the Warfighter. This position will provide distributed mission training systems engineering support for the Joint Strike Fighter program.

Experience Required

4-7 Years

Position Duties/Responsibilities

• You will provide systems engineering advice, consultation and technical documentation to engineers, project directors and management on designated specialty areas, as required.
• You will integrate systems engineering and subject-matter-expertise requirements, approaches, trade-offs, costs, schedule and risks as the consolidated technical input to the IPT.
• You will finalize the performance requirements as baselined in the configuration, design and performance characteristics of the conceptually defined training system.
• You will support the requirements definition and acquisition of F-35 distributed training, support requirements definition and future acquisition of coalition distributed training standards and F-35 integration into customer provided networks.
• You will support update of the pilot training devices to support the new standards, and support stand up of additional DMT sites.
• You will provide input to the technical management and performance of the engineering functions related to training systems acquisition, development, and operational support. This includes: concept formulation (analyze customer performance requirements, develop conceptual design approaches and technical cost & lead time estimates, market research); contract definition (prepare acquisition package documents, proposal evaluation and source selection; contract technical management (monitor contractor progress, conduct design reviews, technical member of Integrated Product Teams); in-house design and development; test and acceptance (process of testing, delivery and installation of training system).
• You will identify and document engineering staffing requirements in order to exercise technical conscience, identification of technical risks, identification of technical impacts to cost, schedule and performance with appropriate technical documentation and communication to program and competency personnel.

Minimum Salary

103,409

Maximum Salary

134,435

Our work in leading-edge defense systems, engineering, computer science, electronics, finance, logistics, and contract management provides our Sailors and Marines with the capabilities they need to accomplish their mission and return home safely.

NAVAIR’s culture is as rich and diverse as its people. Civilians work side-by-side with military personnel to accomplish the NAVAIR mission.