Torch Technologies
Thank you for your interest in employment with Torch Technologies. We are a 100% employee-owned, Certified Great Place To Work and named Best Places to Work in Huntsville/Madison County, headquartered in Huntsville, AL with over 1200 employee-owners. Our team provides superior research, development, and engineering services to the Federal Government and Department of Defense. As one of the nation’s top 100 defense companies, the services we provide directly support the men and women who serve our country. Our corporate mission sums up the pride our employee-owners take in the work we do: “Lighting the Pathway of Freedom”. And, as a Certified Evergreen ESOP, we have made the commitment to grow and sustain our company for the next 100 years! Come grow with us!
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
Bachelor’s 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:
Master’s 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.
Applying to Torch Technologies:
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Founded in October 2002, Torch is a 100% employee-owned business headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama.
Our commitment to our employees results in a retention rate well over 90% and helps ensure our customers experience a stable work force. Our outstanding fringe benefits package helps recruit, retain and sustain our workforce.
Torch has received national and local recognition for its business performance, workplace environment, and ethical business practices. In 2021, Torch was named one of the Best Workplaces in Consulting & Professional Services for the sixth year by Great Place to Work. Torch was also recognized as the 2021 ESOP Company of the Year by the New South Chapter of The ESOP Association for a second time. Torch was a recipient of the 2021 James S. Cogswell Outstanding Industrial Security Achievement Award by the DCSA. Bloomberg Government also listed Torch in its annual “Top 200” for the fifth year. In 2020, Torch became the only four-time recipient of the Better Business Bureau’s Torch Award for Business Ethics in the North Alabama region. Great Place to Work named Torch one of the country’s Best Workplaces for Parents, and Great Place to Work and Fortune named Torch one of the country’s Best Workplaces for Millennials in 2020. Torch was also ranked on the Inc. 5000 list for the fourteenth consecutive year in 2020. Washington Technology listed Torch in its “Top 100” Government Contractors ranking for the sixth consecutive year. Torch was also selected for a 2020 Colorado Springs Business Journal “Best in Business” award. In 2019, Torch was ranked on the Entrepreneur 360 list for the third consecutive year. In 2018, Great Place to Work and Fortune magazine named Torch a Best Medium Workplace for the third consecutive year. Torch was also named a winner of the 2018 Best Places to Work in Huntsville award for the fifth time. In 2016, Torch was named one of America’s Best Small Companies by Forbes.
