Job Title:                                Safety Systems Engineer
Reference:                             22-011
Job Type:                                Full-time
Job Status:                            Interviewing
Date Posted:                        03-02-2022
Location:                                Huntsville
Duration:                                Permanent
Company Address:          CohesionForce, Inc.
Street:                                     101 Quality Circle
Suite:                                       Suite 140
City:                                         Huntsville, AL 35806
Website:                                  http://www.CohesionForce.com

Job Description:

CohesionForce is actively seeking Safety Systems Engineering candidates to become part of our team in Huntsville, AL to support the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) program.

The Safety Systems Engineer will be responsible for establishing, balancing, and integrating stakeholders’ goals, purpose and success criteria, and defining customer needs, operational concept and required functionality.  You will work in multi-disciplined teams in a highly collaborative environment.

In this position you will be responsible for:
– Independently develop System Safety documents such as the System Safety Program Plan (SSPP), Software System Safety Program Plan (SwSSPP), and Safety Assessments reports (SAR).
–  Perform audits and report the effectiveness of the system safety program.
– Work in a classified environment to analyze software requirements, capabilities, code, and tests with a safety focus.
– Generate MIL-STD-882E analysis including Preliminary Hazard Analysis, Functional Hazard Analysis, Subsystem.
– Hazard Analysis, System Requirements Hazard Analysis, etc.
– Develop SW test cases to satisfy safety requirements.
– Document hazard analysis and test results in a Hazard Tracking System.
– The selected candidate should thrive in a fast-paced work environment with high expectations, significantly diverse assignments, and collaborative/team settings across all levels.

                         Basic Qualifications:

– Principal Safety Systems Engineer requires a Bachelor’s degree in an engineering, science, or technology degree with 5 years of experience, or a Master’s degree in a related field with 3 years of experience.
– Sr. Principal Safety Systems Engineer requires a Bachelor’s degree in an engineering, science, or technology degree with 9 years of experience, or a Master’s degree in a related field with 7 years of experience.
– Demonstrated experience in one or systems safety engineering job functions as described above.
– Develop analysis products in support of the Safety Assessment Report (SAR) including a Functional Hazard Analysis (FHA).
– Analyze requirements at all levels within the system to identify or create safety critical requirements, and assign appropriate critically index and level of rigor to SW requirements.
– Ability to generate MIL-STD-882E type analyses.
– Documenting hazards, hazard analysis, and verifications in a Hazard Tracking System.
– Developing test cases to satisfy safety requirements.
– Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
– The ability to travel 10% of the time.
– US Citizenship and Interim Secret clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

– Missile Defense experience.
– Experience reviewing code for application of safety best coding practices.
– Experience performing functions such as installing, repairing, inspecting, overhauling, adjusting, aligning, rigging, and calibrating military structures, systems, and components preferred.
– Experience with the following: MIL-STD-882E System Safety; MIL-STD-1472 Human Engineering, MIL-HDBK-454 General Guideline for Electronic Equipment; OSHA health Standard; MIL-STD-1901A; AMCOM Policy 385-17.
– 5+ years using model-based approaches and tools with experience in UML and DoDAF.
– Experience using DOORS as a part of an integrated systems engineering process that includes system safety engineering.

Job Title:                                 Release Train Engineer
Reference:                             22-015
Job Type:                                Full-time
Job Status:                            Interviewing
Date Posted:                        10-18-2022
Location:                                Huntsville
Duration:                                Permanent
Company Address:          CohesionForce, Inc.
Street:                                     101 Quality Circle
Suite:                                       Suite 140
City:                                         Huntsville, AL 35806
Website:                                  http://www.CohesionForce.com

Job Description:

CohesionForce is actively seeking Release Train Engineer candidates to become part of our team in Huntsville, AL.

The candidate will be the Release Train Engineer for the Objective Simulation Framework (OSF) Release Train.    You will be expected to prioritize and adjust tasks to accomplish project results with limited oversight and direction.  Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

Essential Functions:
– Facilitate the Program Increment planning events and readiness for events across the program.
– Maintain metrics, analysis, and reports on the health, performance and flow of the OSF Release Train.
– Proactively manage and resolve risks and dependencies on the OSF Release Train.
– Escalate and track blocking issues and impediments to progress, coordinate with leadership and help to remove as needed.
– Coordinate with technical and program leadership to refine processes and drive improvements.
– Facilitate system demos, scrum of scrums, and other OSF Release Train events as designated.
– Guides growth of Scrum Masters on the OSF Release Train.

                  Basic Qualifications:

– Bachelor’s degree in an engineering, science, or technology degree with 5 years of experience, or a Master’s degree in a related field with less than 3 years of experience, or 0 years of related experience with a PhD.
– Software engineering/Project engineering experience working within the defense industry.
– Strong prioritization skills; ability to focus on what drives the most value.
– Strong communication skills, both verbal and written; ability to communicate effectively at all organizational levels.
– Familiarity with product and release lifecycle from requirements development to retirement.
– Ability to decompose features into user stories.
– Experience with Git and Git based repository systems (e.g. Gitlab, Bitbucket, etc.).
–  A current active Secret security clearance.

                  Preferred Qualifications:

– SAFe certification (SSM, SASM, or RTE)
– Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment execution.
– Experience with ATDD or BDD.
– Experience with DevOps solutions.
– Breadth of experience in SAFe, Lean, Kanban, or Integrated Product Team program environments. 

Job Title:                                 Systems Engineer
Reference:                             22-009
Job Type:                                Full-time
Job Status:                            Interviewing
Date Posted:                        02-01-2022
Location:                                Huntsville
Duration:                                Permanent
Company Address:          CohesionForce, Inc.
Street:                                     101 Quality Circle
Suite:                                       Suite 140
City:                                         Huntsville, AL 35806
Website:                                  http://www.CohesionForce.com

Job Description:

CohesionForce is actively seeking Systems Engineering candidates to become part of our team in Huntsville, AL to support the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) program.

The Systems Engineer will be responsible for establishing, balancing, and integrating stakeholders’ goals, purpose and success criteria, and defining customer needs, operational concept and required functionality.  You will work in multi-disciplined teams in a highly collaborative environment.

In this position you will be responsible for:
– Developing, documenting, verifying and validating GMD missile systems and subsystems requirements to develop, upgrade, and sustain the GMD system.
– Perform functional analysis, timeline analysis, requirements allocation and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications.
– Performing system analysis, requirements analysis, and functional analysis and allocation, and interface definition related to the system design.
– Defining, documenting, and analyzing proposed missile system configurations, specifying test and operational systems component viability.
– Ensuring the logical and systematic impacts of changes against the total system solution.
– Working as part of the integrated systems engineering team.
– Well versed in agile software development and performing collaboration between self-organizing cross-functional scrum teams.
– Management of requirements using IBM Rational Dynamic Object Oriented Requirements System (DOORS).
– The selected candidate should thrive in a fast-paced work environment with high expectations, significantly diverse assignments, and collaborative/team settings across all levels.

                         Basic Qualifications:

– Bachelor’s degree in an engineering, science, or technology degree with 1-5 years of experience, or a Master’s degree in a related field with less than 1 year of experience.
– Experience creating and documenting product requirements, analyzing results, and creating reports.
– Communicate with stakeholders to identify what the product should accomplish.
– Experience working with stakeholders to identify what the product should accomplish.
– Experience working in an agile work environment.
– Natural collaborators interfacing with various team disciplines such as test and software engineers.
– The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government DoD Secret security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

– Strong DOORS experience.
– Familiarity with Agile processes and the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
– GMD or other missile defense experience.
– Strong interpersonal skills to collaborate effectively with technical teams and customer personnel.
– Familiarity with Agile software development practices.
– Previous experience working with a Missile Defense Agency (MDA) customer.
– Experience in systems engineering, requirements, and product development processes and application to complex weapon or space systems.
– Experience in complex weapon or space systems requirements/verification development and maintenance.

Job Title:                                Test Engineer 3
Reference:                             22-006
Job Type:                                Full-time
Job Status:                            Interviewing
Date Posted:                        01-05-2022
Location:                                Huntsville
Duration:                                Permanent
Company Address:          CohesionForce, Inc.
Street:                                     101 Quality Circle
Suite:                                       Suite 140
City:                                          Huntsville, AL 35806
Website:                                  http://www.CohesionForce.com

Job Description:

CohesionForce is actively seeking candidates for a Test Engineer 3 to become part of the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) Team in Huntsville, AL.

Responsibilities: 

Perform test planning, monitoring, and test execution activities for program software.  Collaborate with other stakeholders.  Devise the test objectives, organization test policies, test strategies, and test plans.  Estimate testing to be done and acquire necessary resources.  Schedule the test for execution and then monitor, measure, control, and report on the test progress, the product quality status, and the test results, adapting the test plan and compensating as needed to adjust to evolving conditions.

Qualifications:

– Bachelors of Science in a technical discipline plus 5 years of experience, 3 years of experience with a Masters degree, and 0 years with a PhD.
– Must be able to work in a technical team environment characterized by frequently changing tasks, new priorities, and quick responses.
– Experience creating and documenting test plans/procedures, analyzing results, and creating reports.
– UNIX, Linux, and Windows operating systems.
– Agile
– C++, JAVA
– Active Security Clearance

Preferred Qualifications:
– Experience testing SW for performance and functionality based on requirement specification and ability to identify and document exact sequence of activities desired.
– Test lead role experience.
– CMMI Level 5 organization.
– Automated testing.

Job Title:                                 Software Engineer 3
Reference:                             22-005
Job Type:                                Full-time
Job Status:                            Interviewing
Date Posted:                        01-05-2022
Location:                                Huntsville
Duration:                                Permanent
Company Address:          CohesionForce, Inc.
Street:                                     101 Quality Circle
Suite:                                       Suite 140
City:                                         Huntsville, AL 35806
Website:                                  http://www.CohesionForce.com

Job Description:

CohesionForce is actively seeking candidates for a Software Engineer 3 to become part of the Manufacturing & Sciences (EM&S) Central Region Engineering Team in Huntsville, AL.

The successful candidate will clearly demonstrate strong technical skills to achieve sustainable quality products.  He/she will have a track record as an effective communicator and problem solver who is able to develop and maintain good working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.  This candidate will demonstrate a commitment to ethics and integrity, and the capability to innovate while challenging traditional ways of doing business.  

Excellent verbal and written communication skills are required and the ideal candidate will have demonstrated success collaborating and developing software for small to large scale programs.  This candidate will demonstrate a broad skill set that is balanced between interpersonal and technical capabilities.  He/she will have an ability to operate in a team environment and collaborate across the sector business areas as required to accomplish the team goals.  The candidate will work closely with other software developers.  The Software Engineer will work closely with other developers to accomplish the following:

– Support team in completing necessary software development on schedule.
– Developing software documentation.
– Complete work independently and as part of a team.
– Interact with related disciplines to accomplish goals.
– Solve complex problems through innovative and creative solutions.
– Utilize software development tools to increase efficiency in code development while decreasing defects.
– Interact with customer/supplier organizations.

Basic Qualifications:

– Bachelor’s degree in an engineering, science, or technology degree with 5-9 years of experience, or a Master’s degree in a related field with 3+ years of experience.
– Strong interpersonal skills to communicate effectively with small technical teams.
– Ability to prioritize and adjust tasks to accomplish project results.
– Ability to develop software in object-oriented programming languages (Ada, Java, C++).
– Utilization of debugging tools and testing mechanisms.
– Demonstrate adherence to applicable software development processes.
– Ability to comprehend and analyze complex problems and develop solutions.
– Active Department of Defense (DoD) Secret clearance. 

Preferred Qualifications:

– Experience with Missile Defense and sense/warn systems.
– Development utilizing Linux environment.
– Knowledge of various programming languages, such as Python, Ada, Fortran, MATLAB, etc.
– Experience working on CMMI Level 3+ programs.
– Use of development environments and configuration management.
– Proven communications skills with armed services & government customers.

Job Title:                                Analysis/M&S Systems Engineer 3
Reference:                             22-003
Job Type:                                Full-time
Job Status:                            Interviewing
Date Posted:                        01-05-2022
Location:                                Huntsville
Duration:                                Permanent
Company Address:          CohesionForce, Inc.
Street:                                     101 Quality Circle
Suite:                                       Suite 140
City:                                          Huntsville, AL 35806
Website:                                  http://www.CohesionForce.com

Job Description:

CohesionForce is actively seeking candidates for a talented and motivated mid-career Systems Engineer or Analysis to become part of the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) Team in Huntsville, AL.  GMD is currently the only deployed strategic system that can defend the United States from long range attack by threat ICBMs.  We need a motivated and innovative candidate with experience in missile defense concepts, operations, and software programming.  The applicant should have demonstrated ability to conduct analysis on a wide variety of data while leveraging engineering knowledge and insight.  The candidate must have experience working on a missile defense program or a relevant component or program (radar, IR sensors, space programs, military command, control, and battle management, etc.)

Additionally, the candidate must be able to describe or demonstrate work they have done in the past that involved the ability to collate large amounts of disparate data, format data and process via software scripts they have written (or industry tools such as Matlab), extract relevant data, and use engineering principles and/or simulations to analyze the data to assess performance of a system or component and explain why something occurred in the data.

The preferred candidate will have an aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, or physics background and direct experience applying their educational background to assessing missile defense performance, designing such systems, or analyzing why something has occurred at the system level.

Responsibilities: 

The candidate will apply expertise in engineering/physics to perform systems performance analysis on the GMD system and must be able to assess and dig through data to problem solve and understand why the system performs the way it does through an understanding of the data and underlying concepts. The candidate will help train and mentor other engineers in conducting performance analysis. The candidate will use simulations of the GMD system to characterize performance and assess technical performance measures that are derived from simulation output.  The candidate will need to present and explain results to other engineering teams and managers in a clear and concise manner.  The candidate should have strong technical, verbal, and written communication skills.

Qualifications:

– Experience in using Monte Carlo simulations to produce performance data.
– Experience in modeling and/or assessing performance data for a missile defense system or relevant equipment.
– Experience in writing software scripts and tools to automate processes such as quality control checks, data formatting, and managing runs on a blade server cluster.
– Position requires a current Secret Clearance and U.S. citizenship.
– Principle Engineer:  A bachelor’s degree in a technical field and 5+ years of relevant experience or Master degree in a technical field and 3+ years of relevant experience or PhD with studies in a technical field with 0 years minimum experience.

Preferred Qualifications:
– Bachelor’s or Advanced degree in Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or Physics.
– Basic understanding of common missile defense concepts such as system and source tracks, application of radars to tracking, covariance and error, defended area, and the kill chain concept of operations.  Also, demonstrated ability to apply these concepts to assess performance of a missile defense system or component.
– Experience working in a missile defense program (GMD, Aegis BMD, THAAD, etc.)
– Experience in leveraging aerospace concepts to develop software scripts.
– Ability to write scripts in Matlab and/or Python.

Job Title:                                Software Developer
Reference:                            22-002
Job Type:                                Full-time
Job Status:                            Interviewing
Date Posted:                        01-05-2022
Location:                                 Huntsville
Duration:                                 Permanent
Company Address:           CohesionForce, Inc.
Street:                                     101 Quality Circle
Suite:                                        Suite 140
City:                                           Huntsville, AL 35806
Website:                                   http://www.CohesionForce.com

Job Description:

CohesionForce is actively seeking candidates for a Software Engineer to become part of the C2BMC Team in Huntsville, AL.

Software Developers work in a collaborative, team-based environment to design, develop, and assure high-performing software systems.  Innovation and forward thinking are encouraged and we expect our developers to take a high level of ownership throughout the software life cycle.

Responsibilities include:

Applicant will be key contributor to the design and development of Java-based C2BMC applications and automated tests.  Candidate will help generate software design artifacts, implement software changes, support design and code reviews, support software testing and resolution of issues arising from software testing.

Basic Qualifications:

– Bachelors in software engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics, or related field from an accredited college.
– Experience in software development of Java-based applications and systems.  Candidate must have hands-on development experience for Java-based applications in a UNIX/Linux platform environment.  Candidate must have experience developing software in a structured, process-based integrated team environment.
– Use of common software development and management tools such as Clearcase and Eclipse.
– Understand standard system engineering design artifacts such as Use Cases and SysML diagrams.
– Experience implementing mathematical algorithms in source code.
– At least 1 year of working knowledge of Ballistic Missile Defense concepts, and Command and Control (BM/C2) systems, defense communications systems, and the BMDS in general is especially beneficial.
– The successful candidate will have good verbal and written communication skills, the ability to work independently and will possess the poise and flexibility required to work in a highly dynamic environment.
– Applicant should have good working knowledge of MS Office products.
– Active Department of Defense (DoD) Secret clearance. 

Desired Qualifications:

– Command and control system application development.
– Experience with Software Integration testing.
– Strong problem solving skills, including the ability to review performance issues, identify root cause and recommend a solution.