Engineer: The Missile Defense Agency

At MDA, we recruit Engineers from a wide variety of specialty fields – aerospace, IT, systems, radar, chemical, mechanical, materials, and others – and apply those skills to supporting the development and deployment of the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS). Duties include systems planning, research, development and a variety of related engineering tasks.

Daily responsibilities involve executing systems engineering activities at all levels and performing specialty work in areas such as radars, missiles, targets and countermeasures, command and control, modeling and simulation, kill vehicles, space vehicles, directed energy and systems architecture. Additional duties include identifying and resolving highly complex technical issues; ensuring that near- and long-term program requirements can be accomplished; devising and implementing processes that assure data requirements are determined using rigorous and valid concepts; and analyzing operational/user requirements.

These positions are available in Huntsville , AL ; Colorado Springs , CO ; Los Angeles , CA ; Ft. Greely , AK ; and Northern Virginia . As we relocate our major operations to Huntsville – center of aerospace research and development since the advent of America ’s space program – a significant number of our staff will also be moving to that location, including many of these positions.

MDA employees will receive excellent compensation and unparalleled benefits, including paid leave and sick time, health and life insurance, long term care insurance, flexible spending accounts and a generous retirement program. We also provide you with opportunities to achieve more in your career through ongoing learning at Corporate University Enterprise (CUE).