Senior Technical Intelligence Advisor-Foreign Air and Missile Defense Systems

Senior Technical Intelligence Advisor-Foreign Air and Missile Defense Systems

Company Overview:

KODA is a people-first company and a three-time Fortune Best Workplace Great Place to Work certified a Best Place for Working Parents and a seven-time Huntsville Best Places to Work winner.

Were a small business making a big impact on national-priority missions in missile defense hypersonics DoD space and civil space. At KODA youll find:

• Competitive pay & great benefits
• Career growth & professional development
• A culture of trust integrity and teamwork

The name KODA meaning allies reflects our commitment to our people our customers and our community. Join us and build a career that matters!

Position Overview:

KODA Technologies is seeking a Senior Technical Intelligence Advisor Foreign Air and Missile Defense Systems to provide strategic technical direction and senior-level technical leadership to KODA intelligence analysis efforts. This is a non-management senior technical position intended for a nationally recognized subject matter expert who can guide complex technical work mentor analysts and engineers support customer engagement and help expand KODAs skill base and customer base in Scientific and Technical Intelligence Center-related mission areas.

The successful candidate will bring deep expertise in foreign air and missile defense systems including integrated air defense systems command and control engagement concepts surveillance and fire-control radars missile interceptors surface-to-air missile systems battle-management architectures and associated sensor-to-shooter kill chains. The candidate should have an established reputation and strong working familiarity with the Scientific and Technical Intelligence Center community and related DoD Intelligence Community and Service intelligence organizations.

This role will provide technical guidance across KODA efforts involving foreign threat system analysis foreign materiel exploitation Technical SIGINT radar and weapon-system characterization threat modeling system performance assessment and intelligence-informed support to missile defense integrated fires test modeling and simulation and acquisition customers.

Responsibilities:

• Provide senior technical direction and/or subject matter expertise for intelligence analysis efforts focused on foreign air and missile defense systems integrated air defense systems radars command and control interceptors effectors and threat-system operations.

• Serve as a principal technical advisor to efforts supporting foreign threat system analysis foreign materiel exploitation Technical SIGINT analysis radar and electronic order-of-battle assessment and threat-system performance characterization.

• Guide analytic approaches for characterizing foreign sensor C2 and weapon-system capabilities including radar modes operating concepts engagement timelines kill-chain behavior system-of-systems integration mobility survivability and operational employment.

• Perform/support analysis of foreign ground-based air defense radars missile defense radars fire-control radars acquisition and surveillance radars command posts launchers interceptors and associated communications and data-link architectures.

• Provide senior technical review of intelligence products threat assessments engineering analyses reverse-engineering studies exploitation reports briefings and customer deliverables.

• Work with internal and external partners to develop products and services for new and existing customers that leverage deep threat expertise.

• Translate intelligence findings into actionable technical insights for missile defense architecture assessment test planning modeling and simulation system engineering acquisition trades and operational threat representation.

• Support customer engagement with DoW Intelligence Community Service laboratory and Scientific and Technical Intelligence Center stakeholders.

• Serve as the key senior advisor to KODA leadership in identifying new mission opportunities shaping technical approaches developing white papers supporting proposals and expanding KODAs customer base in technical intelligence and foreign threat analysis.

• Mentor engineers analysts and emerging subject matter experts in foreign air defense systems missile defense systems radar phenomenology SIGINT-derived technical analysis and intelligence-informed engineering assessment.

• Support the development of KODA internal training short courses lunch-and-learns communities of practice and technical knowledge-sharing activities related to foreign air and missile defense threats.

• Contribute to KODAs reputation for high-quality technically rigorous mission-relevant analysis by maintaining strong professional relationships across the technical intelligence missile defense radar and foreign materiel exploitation communities.

Requirments:

• Bachelors degree in engineering physics mathematics computer science intelligence studies or a related technical discipline. Equivalent combinations of technical education military experience intelligence-community experience and demonstrated subject matter expertise may be considered.

• 15 years of experience in technical intelligence scientific and technical intelligence threat-system analysis radar analysis missile defense integrated air and missile defense foreign materiel exploitation Technical SIGINT or closely related national-security technical domains.

• Deep technical expertise in foreign air and missile defense systems including command and control radar systems interceptors/effectors engagement operations and integrated air defense architectures.

• Demonstrated experience supporting or working with Scientific and Technical Intelligence Center organizations Service intelligence centers DoD intelligence production organizations national laboratories or related technical intelligence customers.

• Strong understanding of radar system fundamentals including radar modes waveforms antenna concepts electronic scanning tracking fire-control functions discrimination signal processing electronic protection and operational signatures.

• Experience interpreting or applying Technical SIGINT FME-derived data intelligence reports test data engineering data or all-source intelligence to characterize foreign threat-system performance and operational capability.

• Demonstrated ability to provide technical leadership without direct line-management authority including mentoring technical review analytic direction customer interface and cross-functional team guidance.

• Ability to communicate complex technical intelligence findings clearly to senior government customers engineers analysts program managers and non-specialist decision makers.

• Demonstrated ability to prepare high-quality technical briefings analytic reports white papers proposals and customer-facing technical products.

• Self-starter with strong judgment intellectual curiosity technical rigor collaboration skills and commitment to mission impact.

Preferred Requirements:

• Advanced degree in electrical engineering radar systems physics aerospace engineering systems engineering applied mathematics intelligence studies or a related field.

• 20 years of experience in foreign air defense missile defense radar intelligence Technical SIGINT foreign materiel exploitation or intelligence-informed system engineering.

• Recognized reputation in the Scientific and Technical Intelligence Center community as a senior subject matter expert in foreign air and missile defense systems.

• Experience with foreign radar exploitation emitter characterization ELINT/FISINT/MASINT-informed analysis radar parametric assessment or threat-system reverse engineering.

• Experience with foreign integrated air defense systems surface-to-air missile systems theater missile defense systems strategic missile defense systems counter-air architectures and sensor-to-shooter kill chains.

• Experience supporting MDA Army Air Force Space Force Navy DIA NASIC MSIC NGIC ONI CIA NSA or related intelligence and acquisition customers.

• Knowledge of foreign command-and-control networks air-defense doctrine missile engagement operations electronic warfare datalinks battle management and operational employment concepts.

• Experience developing threat models system performance estimates engagement timelines parametric databases intelligence-informed M&S inputs or test threat representations.

• Prior experience supporting proposal development customer shaping capture strategy technical volume writing or new-business development in technical intelligence mission areas.

• Publication teaching technical-fellow senior-service national-lab or community-recognized subject matter expert credentials.

What Success Looks Like:

Within the first year the successful candidate will have helped KODA strengthen its technical intelligence capability improve the quality and credibility of foreign threat-system analysis products mentor internal staff deepen customer relationships and identify new opportunities where KODAs radar missile defense systems engineering modeling test and analytical capabilities can support the Scientific and Technical Intelligence Center community.

This role is intended for a senior technical leader who wants to remain hands-on in analysis and technical guidance while shaping the future of KODAs intelligence analysis portfolio.

Clearance: Active Top Secret / SCI degree required. U.S. Citizenship required.

KODA Technologies Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race color religion age sex gender identity sexual orientation pregnancy status as a parent national origin disability (physical or mental) family medical history or genetic information political affiliation military service or other non-merit based factors. If you are unable to complete this application due to a disability contact to ask for an accommodation or an alternative application process.

Required Experience:

Senior IC