Description
AcqCentric is seeking a highly skilled Range Safety & Flight Termination Engineer to support the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Targets and Countermeasures Engineering Directorate. In this role, you will provide critical engineering expertise for the flight terminations systems (FTS) used across launch and reentry vehicles.
What You'll Be Doing:
- 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
Requirements
What Required Skills You'll Bring:
- Technical Expertise: Demonstrated background in flight termination systems and ordnance systems.
- Education & Experience: Master’s degree in STEM with 12+ years of experience
- Security Clearance: Active DoD Secret clearance
- Standards: Proficient in flight safety analysis products, specifically RCC-319 (Flight Termination Commonality Standard) and RCC-324 (Range Safety Tracking Systems Commonality Standard).
- Tracking Systems: Working knowledge of range tracking architectures, including GPS, Inertial Measurement Units (IMU), and C-band tracking
- Communication & Mobility: Strong written and verbal briefing skills; willingness and ability to travel for mission deployments.
What Desired Skills You'll Bring:
- 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.
Skills Required
- Master’s degree in a STEM discipline
- 12 or more years of professional experience
- Active DoD Secret security clearance
- Demonstrated experience with flight termination systems and ordnance systems
- Proficiency with RCC-319 and RCC-324 standards
- Working knowledge of range tracking architectures, including GPS, IMUs, and C-band tracking
- Strong written, verbal, and technical briefing skills
- Willingness and ability to travel for mission deployments
- Direct experience with Autonomous Flight Termination Systems
- Hands-on flight test operations experience
- Technical background in RF systems, antennas, batteries, and ordnance devices
- 10 or more years of defense and aerospace experience
What We Do
AcqCentric is a Huntsville-based, woman- and veteran-owned small business that supports U.S. defense agencies and federal mission partners. Its work spans systems and software engineering, cybersecurity, acquisition and program management, warfighter support, and life-cycle sustainment. The company helps customers develop, test, field, and sustain critical equipment and services, with a focus on missile defense, systems integration, and operational readiness across demanding national-security environments.
