Strategic Mission Engineer at Chaos Industries · LumiJobs

Responsibilities

As a Strategic Mission Engineering Lead at CHAOS, you will bring recent, real-world military operational experience to the way CHAOS designs, tests, and fields its products. You will help design, develop, execute, analyze, and validate the models, simulations, scenarios, and operational assessments that deliver operational analysis and system performance assessment across defense, national security, and commercial programs – which will guide internal engineering investment and assist business development in shaping customer requirements. Your work will span Air Defense, Counter Unmanned Aerial Systems (C-UAS), and the broader set of mission areas CHAOS supports, and will directly inform decisions around product requirements, product engineering, business development strategy, and product road mapping.
This is a foundational hire. You will operate with limited guidance in a fast-moving environment, identify what the warfighter actually needs, and generate creative, practical solutions to operational problems that do not yet have a defined answer. You will have the freedom to move fast.
Support execution of the mission engineering and operations analysis strategy across CHAOS's Air Defense, C-UAS, and related product development and business development efforts.
Translate current and future concepts of operation – including US and allied force standard operating procedures (SOPs) and tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) for static and mobile forces – into mission engineering and operations analysis design.
Identify unmet operational needs across the kill chain and generate creative, practical solutions, working with engineering and product teams to turn them into capability concepts, CONOPS, and study designs.
Enable the translation of validated intelligence community products (NASIC, DIA, MSIC, ONI, NGIC, MCIA, and partner agency assessments) on adversary air, missile, and related threat systems into modeling parameters, scenario constructs, and red force order of battle for mission-level simulations.
Lead blue force CONOP-informed scenario development across all domains, ensuring scenarios reflect credible blue force CONOPS, doctrine, and projected capabilities, not generic boilerplate.
Validate blue force operating models, assumptions, and simulation outputs against authoritative source data and operational experience; engage customer users and partners to resolve discrepancies and refresh representations as new CONOPS and CONEMPS are developed.
Maintain continuous awareness of adversary threats, capabilities, and evolving TTPs – drawing on intelligence community reporting, operational lessons learned, and open-source analysis – and ensure threat representations in models, scenarios, and studies remain current.
Brief CONOP assessments, scenario rationale, and analytical findings to senior technical leadership, program executives, and government customers, including DoD, DARPA, and IC stakeholders up to the flag/SES level, in order to better inform their requirements development and advantage CHAOS in future competitive programs.
Partner with engineers, data scientists, and analysts to translate operational and intelligence questions into well-structured analytical approaches. Push back when the question being asked isn't the right one.
Stay forward of emerging blue force capabilities, doctrine, TTPs/SOPs, and technologies, and shape study designs to address what's coming, not just what's documented.

Strategic Mission Engineer

Responsibilities

Qualification

Preferred

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Company

Chaos Industries

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