Applications Engineering, Architect- Missile Defense
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In short
Responsibilities
- Build high-fidelity models of threat trajectories, including staging events, flight dynamics, and multi-spectral signature behaviors.
- Develop and integrate radar phenomenology models.
- Support the creation of synthetic datasets for AI/ML training.
- Collaborate with signature characterization experts, sensor engineers, and government stakeholders.
- Implement sensing system models within frameworks like STK and AFSIM.
- Provide technical leadership on modeling requirements, simulation architecture, and fidelity tradeoffs.
- Integrate threat modeling and sensor simulations into larger analysis and experimentation environments.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, or related field with 12+ years of professional experience, or Master's with 10+ years, or PhD with 7+ years.
- US citizen required with an active DoD TS/SCI clearance.
- Deep domain knowledge in air and missile defense systems.
- Demonstrated experience modeling radar phenomenology and RF sensing systems.
- Hands-on experience with missile flight dynamics.
- Proficiency in MATLAB or Python.
- Experience with Systems Tool Kit (STK) and Advanced Framework for Simulation, Integration and Modeling (AFSIM) is a strong plus.
Desired Qualifications
- Ability to explain complex radar phenomenology tradeoffs to government program managers.
- Experience with real-world radar or EO/IR data.
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity and building models when requirements are still being defined.
- Ability to push back when a simulation requirement does not align with physics.
- Ability to manage multiple technical efforts simultaneously.
- Possess a point of view on good modeling and advocate for the right approach.
Benefits
- Eligible for an annual bonus, equity, and other discretionary bonuses.
- Comprehensive health, wellness, and financial benefits.
- Competitive total rewards package.
- The actual compensation offered will be based on a number of job-related factors.
Skills
About Synopsys Inc
Smart, Secure Everything—From Silicon to Software Synopsys technology is at the heart of innovations that are changing the way we live and work. The Internet of Things. Autonomous cars. Wearables. Smart medical devices. Secure financial services. Machine learning and computer vision. These breakthroughs are ushering in the era of Smart, Secure Everything―where devices are getting smarter, everything’s connected, and everything must be secure. Powering this new era of technology are advanced silicon chips, which are made even smarter by the remarkable software that drives them. Synopsys is at…
Company
Synopsys IncJob Posted
1 day ago
Employment Type
Full Time
Work mode
On Site
Salary
US$172,000–258,000 / year
Experience Level
Executive
Locations
Exton, United States
Huntsville, United States
Dayton, United States
Qualification
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