Systems Engineer – Employment Engineer

About the role

Amentum is seeking a Systems Engineer – Employment Engineer to join its engineering team in Dahlgren, VA, supporting the Sea-Launched Cruise Missile–Nuclear (SLCM-N) Program. The role supports the development, integration, analysis and testing of advanced weapon-system capabilities and technologies, focusing on optimizing weapon-system employment, analyzing targeting data and planning capabilities, and translating USSTRATCOM and Combatant Command requirements into platform capabilities.

Key responsibilities

• Evaluate the operational impact of new system design choices using knowledge of the SLCM-N weapon system and its subsystem interactions.
• Assess impacts on operational users, including USSTRATCOM, Combatant Commanders, Strategic Weapons Facilities, the operational fleet and the NC2 community.
• Analyze targeting data, mission-planning capabilities, system performance and emerging threats.
• Support analysis, modeling and simulation for threat mitigation, survivability, weapon effectiveness and platform performance.
• Participate in trade studies and design optimization to balance survivability, range and lethality.
• Support requirements definition, schedule alignment and L0/L1 requirements tracing.
• Maintain programmatic artifacts such as the Lifecycle Mission Data Plan (LMDP) and WISE deliverables.
• Work with the Lead/Product Owner and Technical Project Lead, and support software requirements, engineering analysis and specification development.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in an engineering, scientific or technical discipline, or five years of demonstrated testing expertise in lieu of the degree.
• Five years of experience supporting nuclear operations, nuclear command and control, strategic weapons, nuclear planning and national-level command and control programs.
• Five years of software engineering experience on a real-time, software-intensive weapon, command or intelligence system, including requirements definition.
• Three years of specialized experience in software engineering and requirements analysis, design tradeoffs, structured requirements methods and weapon-system specifications.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance (U.S. citizenship required); active TS/SCI clearance preferred.
• Eligibility to obtain and maintain RD/FRD access.

Required skills

• Weapon-system specification development with tools such as DOORS.
• Software requirements definition, engineering analysis and specification development.
• Design tradeoff studies and structured requirements-analysis methodologies.

What we offer

• Health, dental and vision insurance, paid time off and holidays.
• Retirement benefits including 401(k) matching, educational reimbursement and parental leave.
• Employee stock purchase plan, tax-saving options, disability and life insurance, and pet insurance.