Senior CUAS Survivability Engineer

Torch Technologies

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Torch Technologies is seeking a Senior CUAS Survivability Engineer to provide hands-on technical leadership and expert-level engineering support to the Product Manager Counter-Unmanned Aircraft Systems (PdM C-UAS) within PEO Missiles and Space (PEO MS). The CUAS Survivability Engineer will define and implement survivability protective technology and system assurance requirements across radar interceptor electronic warfare (EW) and command-and-control (C2) systems. This position integrates survivability engineering system protection and rapid prototyping to ensure fielded C-UAS systems remain secure resilient and effective against evolving near-peer threats.

As a CUAS Survivability Engineer your duties will include the following but are not limited to:

• Lead the development and enforcement of protective technology export control and system assurance requirements for all PdM C-UAS systems.

• Collaborate with the Intelligence Community (IC) to derive classified threat intelligence into actionable engineering and survivability requirements.

• Provide system protection and survivability guidance to OEMs and monitor implementation across system development and fielding.

• Ensure identification and protection of Critical Program Information (CPI) during Foreign Military Sales (FMS) activities and technology transfers.

• Drive compliance with DoD and Army Program Protection System Assurance and Export Control policies and best practices.

• Lead survivability design modeling and testing to ensure system resilience against kinetic electronic warfare (EW) and directed-energy threats.

• Define engineering requirements for radar missile EW and C2 systems to maintain performance under contested and degraded conditions.

• Conduct trade studies and develop system security architectures to enhance C-UAS security resiliency and survivability.

• Integrate GPS/GNSS anti-jam anti-spoof and resilient navigation capabilities into system designs.

• Develop and maintain key documentation including Program Protection Plans (PPP) and Security Classification Guides (SCG).

• Oversee technical risk management configuration control and governance across protective technology and assurance engineering domains.

• Provide survivability and assurance analyses test results and risk mitigation strategies to senior leadership and PMO stakeholders.

• Support rapid prototyping and accelerated safety confirmation to enable early fielding of survivability-enhanced capabilities.

• Utilize Digital Engineering (DE) and Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) tools to trace and validate survivability and system assurance requirements.

• Coordinate across Army Futures Command RCCTO AMCOM and ASA(ALT) to align system security and survivability strategies across the enterprise.

Required Qualifications:

• U.S. Citizenship

• Bachelors degree in Engineering (Electrical Mechanical Systems or related STEM).

• 8 years of hands-on experience in System Security Engineering Survivability Engineering or Protective Technologies within DoD programs.

• Active Secret clearance (TS/SCI preferred).

• Deep technical expertise in:

  • Protective technologies and CPI protection

  • System survivability and system assurance engineering

  • Cyber and EW resiliency integration

  • Program Protection Planning and implementation

  • Digital Engineering / MBSE tools and methods

• Proven record leading or supporting rapid prototyping test execution and accelerated safety validation of field-deployable defense systems.

• Experience working with Intelligence Community PEO MS AMCOM and FMS processes.

• Strong analytical communication and leadership skills with demonstrated success working across Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) and Cross-Functional Teams (CFTs).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters degree in Systems Engineering Electrical Engineering or related technical field.

• Prior experience supporting Army C-UAS Air and Missile Defense or EW programs.

• Working knowledge of Army and DoD protection frameworks (e.g. DoDI 5200.39 DoDI 8510.01 MIL-STD-882).

• Experience with Live Fire Test & Evaluation (LFT&E) and Operational Test (OT) events.

• Demonstrated ability to brief senior military and civilian leadership on complex survivability and security topics.

Schedule:M-F; 8-5

Work Location: Onsite

Travel:Yes up to 40%

Relocation Assistance Available: No

Position Contingent Upon Award of Contract: No

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Benefits:

Torch Technologies is proud to offer a stable and professional work environment a competitive salary and an excellent comprehensive benefit package including: ESOP participation 401(k) match and safe-harbor contribution medical dental vision life insurance short-term disability long-term disability flexible spending accounts Health Saving Accounts and Health Reimbursement Accounts EAP education assistance paid time off and holidays.

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