Sr. Mission Integration Engineer.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the primary operational advocate for the product line, ensuring customer missions and operational needs are represented throughout product development
• Mentor engineering and product teams on operational employment concepts and customer perspectives to strengthen mission-focused product development.
• Define Concepts of Operations (CONOPS), operational employment concepts, and mission workflows that guide product development and customer adoption
• Develop and maintain trusted relationships with military customers, operational users, government agencies, prime contractors, and industry partners.
• Influence and translate customer missions, operational concepts, and user feedback into actionable requirements and capability recommendations for improved product strategy.
• Identify operational capability gaps and recommend product enhancements to improve mission effectiveness, usability, survivability, and sustainment.
• Evaluate operational impact of technical decisions, balancing mission effectiveness, technical risk, schedule, and customer priorities.
• Identify supporting capabilities required for successful fielding, including training, documentation, logistics, maintenance, support equipment, and standard operating procedures (SOP).
• Establish and maintain continuous feedback mechanisms with operational users and stakeholders.

Required Experience \ Capability:

• Commitment to Excellence.  Attention to Detail.  Pride in Workmanship.   
• Ability to work in a dynamic environment and maintain composure and strong working relationships under pressure.
• Ability to independently plan, prioritize, and execute work with minimal oversight, meeting mid- to long-term program milestones.
• Advanced problem-solving capability, with the ability to synthesize information from multiple technical disciplines to reach sound engineering decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to translate operational concepts, mission needs, and customer feedback into actionable product or system requirements.
• Demonstrated experience transitioning advanced technologies into operationally deployable military capabilities.
• Experience engaging directly with DoD customers, operational users, and acquisition organizations to define operational needs and influence product direction.
• Strong understanding of military acquisition, technology maturation, and the transition of science and technology efforts into fielded systems.
• Experience developing and maintaining trusted relationships across government, industry, and operational communities.
• Working knowledge of systems engineering principles and their application throughout the product lifecycle.
• Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction and drive cross-functional alignment without direct organizational authority.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present technical concepts to customers, executive leadership, and multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Ability to travel up to 25% in support of customer engagements and operational demonstrations.

Desired Experinece:

• Experience supporting the development, review, or validation of software requirements, Interface Control Documents (ICDs), and system interfaces.
• Experience collaborating across engineering disciplines to consolidate system requirements.
• Familiarity with military kill chains, sensor-to-shooter architectures, command and control (C2), and weapons engagement authorities.
• Experience supporting the transition of advanced technologies from research and development into military acquisition programs or fielded capabilities.
• Experience planning and executing laboratory, field, or operational testing of complex defense systems as well as participating in customer demonstrations/exercises.
• Experience with high-energy laser systems, directed energy technologies, electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) sensors, or advanced targeting systems.
• Experience employing data from test sources to inform system performance, and/or AI/ML model development.
• Familiarity with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), Digital Engineering, and requirements management tools.
• Prior military service or experience working directly with operational military organizations.

Benefits Summary:  

• 4 weeks of Paid Time Off per year 
• 11 paid Holidays 
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan 
• Tuition Assistance Program 
• Health (ACA Gold Plan), Vision and Dental Care paid by employer 100% for Employee and 75% for Dependents 
• Paid Family Leave, Short and Long Term Disability paid by employer 100% 
• Competitive 401k with company match and immediate vesting  

Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or age. For more information about our commitment to equal employment opportunity, please see this government poster: Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal. If you are an individual with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation in the application or hiring process, please contact Human Resources at HR@nlightdefense.com.