# Senior Mission Systems Engineer

> Essnova Solutions, Inc. · Newport News, United States · — · Posted 2026-08-14

**Workplace:** on_site

## Description

Location: Fort Eustis, VA  
Work Arrangement: Primarily onsite  
Clearance: Active Secret clearance; Interim Secret acceptable during onboarding  
Travel: Up to 25%  
Employment: Full-time; contingent upon contract award

Essnova is seeking a Senior Mission Systems Engineer to support multidisciplinary engineering, modeling and simulation, systems integration, and testing for U.S. Army aviation research and development.

Key Responsibilities

-   Develop technical reports, plans, procedures, studies, and white papers.
-   Perform engineering analyses related to component design, integration, and testing.
-   Apply engineering models to requirements definition, system architecture, software design, and hardware design.
-   Develop and execute material, subcomponent, full-system, and environmental test plans.
-   Develop modeling and simulation environments, architectures, and system-verification plans.
-   Define technical performance measures and perform post-test analysis.
-   Support simulations, human-in-the-loop evaluations, and field testing involving aircraft, avionics, mission computers, sensors, or weapons systems.
-   Monitor program execution, present technical results, and oversee less-senior personnel.

## Requirements

Minimum Qualifications

-   ABET-accredited degree in Aerospace, Computer, Electrical, Mechanical, or Systems Engineering.
-   Bachelor’s degree with at least eight years of aviation/R&D test and modeling-and-simulation experience; master’s degree with at least six years; or doctoral degree with at least six years of aviation/R&D test experience and three years of modeling-and-simulation experience.
-   Experience developing test plans, analyses, and technical reports.
-   Ability to present findings at technical interchange meetings and senior-level briefings.
-   Active Secret clearance; Interim Secret acceptable during onboarding.
-   Ability to work primarily onsite at Fort Eustis and travel up to 25%.

Preferred Qualifications

-   Army aviation mission-systems or R&D experimentation experience.
-   Systems architecture, requirements, verification, avionics, sensors, weapons, or mission-computer experience.
-   Human-in-the-loop or field-testing experience.

Proposal Requirement

Selected candidates must provide a qualification-traceable résumé and sign a Letter of Commitment confirming availability at the anticipated start of contract performance.

## Apply

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