Federal Strategies is looking for a motivated person to fill the role of Aeroballistics Engineer as part of our team designing and implementing new and existing methodologies for danger zone development and modelling. The danger zone development process is concerned with deriving and defining the delivery accuracy, ricochet, and failure behaviors of a particular weapon system based on available or obtainable impact/performance information from weapon manufactures and simulation labs associated with the weapons program. Data consists of the factors and impact points necessary to determine the initial impact distribution (Delivery accuracy), ricochet impact distribution (spin stabilization/projectile deformation/explosion fragmentation), and failure mode impact distribution. These data are used to generate and define the danger zone that meets the USMC’s 1:1,000,000 containment/escapement, probability of hit/miss, as well as the angles and distance that comprise the parts of a danger zone.
Responsibilities include developing, testing, and incorporating danger zones for new weapons systems into the danger zone tools. Develop or analyze mathematical or statistical theory, methods, and models to collect, organize, interpret, and summarize numerical data to provide usable information supporting deterministic and probabilistic danger zone development. Serve as a technical point of contact to others both internal and external to customers. Applicant will be expected to provide subject matter expertise on existing weapon system models include in the RMTK and WDALab in order to explain, defend and justify the program impact prediction and containment behaviors of available weapon systems and munitions. Individual will provide remote support but will be required to travel from time to time in support of customers.
The Engineer may be appointed to serve as Deputy Program Manager for WDALab depending on experience and acumen.
- Conceive, plan, direct, and conduct basic and applied research in projectile structures and their dynamic behavior.
- Be willing to learn software for modeling and simulation to study explosive and ballistic events and to analyze structural response.
- Have a good understanding of dynamic and static stress analysis and be able to develop technical approaches to achieve customer requirements to a successful conclusion.
- Work with minimal direction and develop or apply mathematical or statistical theory, computational techniques, algorithms, and latest computer technology to provide usable information to evaluate and synthesize data.
- Analyze operational/user requirements and perform functional analysis, testing and verification/validation of models and software.
- Develop mathematical models and processes, techniques and procedures to create new or substantially improved developmental methods.
- Develop detailed modeling methodologies for analyzing raw trials data, developing danger zones and defining new or improved probabilistic modelling solutions.
- Review, analyze, and summarize existing scientific data from disparate sources.
- Investigate new data sources for potential use in determining danger zone development.
- Make recommendations for improvement to software design methodology.
- Prepare and present presentations and written documents summarizing efforts.
- Develop reports, software documentation, presentations, charts and spreadsheets in support of RTAM operations incorporating USMC standards as defined within various publications.
- Applicants should have received a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree in Mathematics, Physics, Modelling and Simulation Software Engineering or similar field with a strong background in numerical, analytical, and experimental methods. This includes knowledge of materials constitutive behaviors.
- Applicants should have a working knowledge of computational structural mechanics techniques and software. Applicants may perform research in investigating the dynamic response of projectile structures, the structural response of various conventional and novel weapon systems, projectile free flight, impact and post impact behaviors, as well as the effect of projectile-gun interactions on overall system performance.
- Experience converting measured and simulated effects data into an interactive simulation representative of the weapon system over its defined use model.
- Experience developing and maintaining the data analysis, visualization and program maintenance codes in order to sustain, maintain, debug and improve the core simulation codes.
- Experience researching, organizing, interpreting and characterizing weapon performance and failure effects characterization data.
- Experience developing and implementing an accurate representation of a weapon systems use models for application within the general WDZ or relevant RMTK real-time simulation product.
- Experience with, at a minimum, C++, and Fortran or MATLAB strongly recommended.
- Must be able to obtain a SECRET Clearance.
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Federal Strategies is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. The company does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, veteran, or any other legally protected status.
