Senior EMP Engineer II

Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc. (SPA) delivers high-impact, technical solutions to complex national security issues. With over 50 years of business expertise and consistent growth, we are known for continuous innovation for our government customers, in both the US and abroad. Our exceptionally talented team is highly collaborative in spirit and practice, producing Results that Matter. Come work with the best! We offer opportunity, unique challenges, and clear-sighted commitment to the mission. Objective. Responsive. Trusted.

SPA’s Sea Land Air (SLA) Division supports a diverse portfolio of national security government clients, including the Undersea Enterprise, the Navy Surface Community, the Navy MPTE Enterprise, the Army, DoD Agencies, DARPA, OSD, international clients including the Canadian Navy and Australian Defense Force.  Our primary objective is to provide timely, objective and analytic assessments that integrate the policy, operational, technical, programmatic and acquisition aspects of our clients’ challenges.

Leveraging both in-domain and cross-domain expertise to maximize our clients’ success, SLA Division acts as trusted agents to senior decision-makers and key leaders and excels at providing data driven analytic insights, systems engineering, strategies and plans that address current and emerging challenges to national security.

The Integrated Warfare Systems Group's (IWSG) focus is to provide engineering, technical and programmatic support to the Program Executive Office Integrated Warfare Systems, Above Water Sensors and Lasers (PEO IWS 2.0) Directorate. Efforts include technical and engineering support; risk identification and characterization; analysis and assessment support; test and evaluation; integrated logistics support; web development and web administration; documentation support; and program and project management to support legacy systems, emerging technologies, and platforms being fielded by DoD.

We are seeking a dedicated senior-level EMP Engineer to provide critical Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) / Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) support for NAVSEA's Program Executive Office, Integrated Warfare Systems (PEO IWS) portfolio in Dalhgren, VA. 

For this critical work, we are looking for a proactive senior engineer to provide expertise in developing and validating Electromagnetic (EM) survivability requirements for electrical/electronic systems, mechanical systems, interconnects, and structures; provide test and evaluation support at a variety of EMC/EMV/EMP test facilities, including Mode Stirred Chamber, Horizontally Polarized, Vertically Polarized, and Bounded Wave Simulations; and collect test data, conduct detailed analyses, complete desktop and on-site assessments of shipboard status, provide risk to mission analysis and dependency analysis, develop technical and operational conclusions, and write technical reports that meet stakeholder requirements.

You must have the ability to work from NSWC Dahlgren 4-5 days per week on average.   

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum of a Bachelors degree in an engineering, scientific, or technical discipline
• Eligible for a DoD TS/SCI security clearance
• Minimum twelve (12) years of demonstrated and established knowledge base and subject matter expertise relevant to one or more of the following: Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics, or Naval Architecture
• Minimum seven (7) years of experience in Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP), Electronic Environmental Effects (E3), Electromagnetic Interference (EMI), Electromagnetic Capability (EMC), E3 Computation and Modeling, and Electromagnetic Pulse engineering, research, and test and evaluation