Range Safety and Flight Termination Engineer

Job overview

The Range Safety and Flight Termination Engineer role is onsite in Huntsville, AL; compensation is not specified. The engineer supports the Missile Defense Agency Targets and Countermeasures Engineering Directorate, providing expertise for flight termination systems used on launch and reentry vehicles. The role provides range-safety and flight-termination engineering oversight for target systems, supporting requirements verification, technical surveillance, flight-test activities, and stakeholder reviews to help ensure system readiness and safety.

What you'll do

• Serve as the Targets Program office range-safety expert during flight tests, Range Safety Working Groups, and flight-termination testing
• oversee requirements development, allocation, and verification for target-system flight termination products, including autonomous systems
• conduct technical surveillance of hardware and software development, qualification, acceptance, integration, and checkout
• author technical reports
• represent government stakeholder interests in working groups, customer forums, and design reviews.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

range safety

flight termination systems

engineering

missile defense agency

targets and countermeasures

flight tests

dod secret clearance

rcc-319

rcc-324

huntsville al

acqcentric

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

Requires a Master’s degree in STEM, 12+ years of experience, active DoD Secret clearance, and proficiency with RCC-319 and RCC-324. Flight-test operations and autonomous flight termination experience are desired.

About the employer

ACQCENTRIC INC is hiring for this role. Industry: Engineering Services. Sector: 54.