Missile Integration Engineer (Flight to Shipboard Integration Engineer)

Join JRC’s engineering team and play a key role in integrating an advanced missile flight vehicle with the U.S. Navy’s Virginia-class submarines. As a Missile Integration Engineer, you’ll work alongside government and industry partners to solve complex engineering challenges, develop and validate system interfaces, and ensure the missile and submarine systems operate together as intended.

This role offers the opportunity to contribute to mission-critical defense technology, collaborate across multiple engineering disciplines, and support the integration, testing, and verification of sophisticated missile systems. Your technical expertise will help ensure system compatibility, design integrity, and mission readiness.

💼What You'll Do

• Serve as critical technical contributor reporting to the LOC Missile System Integration Section Head on interface design between the flight vehicle and the submarine.
• Supports system integration efforts across fight vehicle, control, fire control, and launch subsystems.
• Oversee the development of flight vehicle simulators including high fidelity guidance test sets (GTS).
• Serve as the lead liaison between the flight vehicle and shipboard branches.
• Support Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), digital thread/twin management, and configuration control.
• Ensure design integrity through requirements traceability, verification, and validation processes.
• Plan and execute flight system to payload integration activities, ensuring clear hand offs between flight and shipboard integration work streams.
• Lead hardware in the loop (HWIL) and software in the loop (SWIL) verification of the flight to shipboard interface; define test procedures, success criteria, and analyze results.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate/enable technical risks/opportunities specific to the payload interface; track mitigation/enabling actions.
• Provide technical input to Engineering Review Boards (ERB), technical Risk and Opportunities Management Boards (TRMB), and Configuration Control Boards (CCB) as the flight to shipboard interface subject matter expert.
• Contribute fight system to shipboard interface content to the Systems Engineering Plan (SEP), Mission Assurance Plan, and Test & Evaluation Master Plan (TEMP).
• Assist in the oversight of Integration and Test efforts for the LOC missile inclusive of hardware, instrumentation, data-collection, post-test analysis, and ship-integration.
• Prepare and present flight to shipboard integration status for major technical and programmatic LOC reviews.
• Advise and contribute on flight system cost/schedule/technical trade-offs, and its documentation.

🧠What You Bring To The Table

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Systems, or related discipline).
• 7+ years of defense related systems engineering experience on missile or aerospace MDAPs.
• 2+ years of experience working with Naval shipboard systems or mission planning.
• An Active DoW Secret clearance (or have held an active clearance within the last 2 years) with eligibility for Top Secret / SCI.
• Strong communications skills and an ability to communicate complex subject matter to a non-technical personnel.

⭐Bonus Points

• Master’s degree in mechanical or electrical engineering, or related field.
• 10 years of defense related systems engineering experience on missile or aerospace MDAPs.
• Experience working onboard Virginia Class Submarines, with the Tomahawk Weapons System, or with Tomahawk Mission Planning.
• DAWIA Advanced Certification in Engineering or Program Management.
• Experience supporting nuclear-capable or strategic missile programs.
• Sea-Launch Platform Experience such as SSN, SSBN, and SSGN
• Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility.