About The Role

: Innovative Defense Technologies (IDT), a leading defense technology company, is seeking an Advanced Concepts Engineer to be based out of one of IDT’s offices. This person will work with a fast-paced team of mission-focused engineers by working with and developing cutting edge technology to solve customer problems. Initiative, creativity, reliability, and efficient teamwork will be required to successfully deliver innovative solutions in this dynamic customer space.

The selected Advanced Concepts Engineer will be responsible to turn customer’s goals and needs into solutions. The Advanced Concepts Engineer possesses the background and skills to apply cutting edge technologies to new problems to rapidly define options and communicate both with customers and IDT designers. This Engineer will work with product teams to develop and deploy solutions, and continuously revise and improve those solutions with evolving capabilities and user feedback.

The ideal candidate will have skills applicable to distributed systems, cloud-based deployment, test and evaluation in digital environments, and applying Agentic AI or LLM solutions to novel problems. A strong familiarity with presentation/visualization methods to communicate and understand results is ideal. The candidate will learn IDT’s technologies and how to apply them to Customer products to accelerate the pace of development, test, deployment, and in-service upgrade.

Requirements

S. Security Clearance. This is an on-site position.

Requiring at least 4 days in the office, based out of our Arlington, VA, Mount Laurel, NJ, or San Diego, CA location.

, integrate technical parameters and assure compatibility of all functional and program interfaces Apply advanced systems/software technologies and principles to develop innovative solutions for in-service and next generation complex software systems Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to rapidly define, design, develop, integrate, and deploy tactical and test systems Perform analyses to optimize total system of systems and/or system architecture Determine operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition,

, solution development, and proposed solutions Communicate directly with customer and users to understand need and drive cross-functional technical issues/challenges to closure

into viable technical solutions Mathematical and communication skills to understand whatsystem users and testers need to make decisions and do assessments rapidly and accurately Understanding of System Engineering and Software Engineering best practices. Ability to communicate with customer Subject Matter Experts and understand their processes and designs.

What You Will Do

: Develop test/data algorithms for reducing instrumentation and data streams to meaningful quantification of system actions, behaviors, and outcomes Architect System-of-System solutions from IDT’s integration technologies to provide novel solutions to rapidly evolving problem spaces Evaluate customer/operational needs to define system performance

Who You Are (Required)

: Bachelor’s Degree in engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics, other STEM field, or equivalent full-time professional experience 3-5+ years of relevant experience Experience defining new solutions with new and existing technologies, creating loosely coupled system solutions which promote rapid evolution and re-deployment Ability and interest in the logical, systematic conversion of program

Advanced Concepts Engineer - JobID-0210