INTERDISCIPLINARY ENGINEER/SCIENTIST

Position Description

You will serve as the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) National Modeling and Simulation (M&S) Laboratory Lead in the Weapons Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis Division, Weapons and Energetics Department of NAVAIRWARCENWPNDIV CHINA LAKE.

Position Duties/Responsibilities

• You will develop and execute the PMA-230 lab campaign and Modeling and Simulation-based Verification and Validation strategy, assigning objectives to lab, ground, and flight venues based on maturity, risk, and schedule.
• You will establish recommended entry and exit criteria, test objectives, readiness assessments, and risk-reduction actions to support progression to subsequent test venues and designated approval authority decisions.
• You will coordinate the software, hardware, mission planning, threat representation, interface, distributed simulation, and external laboratory connections required for valid laboratory execution.
• You will synchronize technical dependencies, schedules, assumptions, and integration activities across PMA-230, NAWCWD, NAWCAD, other government organizations, contractors, and external laboratories.
• You will develop technical priorities, laboratory requirements, and tasking recommendations to inform program office resource, contract, and laboratory planning through authorized channels.
• You will provide leadership with technical status, readiness assessments, integration risks, shortfalls, mitigations, and workforce needs related to Modeling and Simulation, software integration, and Verification and Validation.

Minimum Salary

146632

Maximum Salary

197200