Range Safety & Flight Termination Engineer

Requisition #: TLS-26-041 | Clearance: Active DoD Secret (US citizenship required) | Level: Principal | Experience: 12+ years | Education: Master's | Work site: Redstone Arsenal – Huntsville, AL (on-site)

What you'll do:

• Serve as Range Safety expert on behalf of the Targets Program office during flight tests, Range Safety Working Groups, and flight termination testing

• Provide oversight of requirements development, allocation, and verification for target-system FTS products, including autonomous flight termination systems

• Conduct technical surveillance across FTS hardware and software development, qualification, acceptance, integration, and final checkout

• Author technical reports detailing system status, analytical findings, and formal recommendations

• Represent government stakeholder interests in technical working groups, customer forums, and formal design reviews

Required qualifications:

• Demonstrated background in flight termination systems and ordnance systems

• Master's degree in a STEM field with 12+ years of experience

• Active DoD Secret clearance

• Proficient in flight-safety analysis products, specifically RCC-319 (Flight Termination Commonality Standard) and RCC-324 (Range Safety Tracking Systems Commonality Standard)

• Working knowledge of range tracking architectures, including GPS, Inertial Measurement Units (IMU), and C-band tracking

• Strong written and verbal briefing skills; willingness and ability to travel for mission deployments

Preferred qualifications:

• Direct experience with Autonomous Flight Termination Systems (AFTS)

• Hands-on flight-test operations experience

• Technical background in RF systems, antennas, batteries, and ordnance devices

• 10+ years of experience in defense and aerospace