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Principal Engineer for Hypersonics

Beyond New Horizons
Arnold AFB, TN, United States, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 29 Jan 2026
💰 $220,000/yr($150,000/yr$220,000/yr)

About the role

Overview

Job Title: Principal Engineer for Hypersonics                           

Location: Arnold AFB, TN

Job Family Code: O--Engineering

Function/Branch: Engineering / Hypersonics

Directorate: Test Operations

Position Type: Regular, Full-Time

Pay Type: Exempt       

Grade (provided by HR): L11 (OA1108)

Salary Range or Starting Hourly Rate (provided by HR): $150,000 - $220,000 / year

 

 

****Current U.S. Citizenship is required****

 

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Overview

Beyond New Horizons, LLC (BNH) has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Staff (Principal) Engineer, supporting the Test Operations and Sustainment contract at Arnold Engineering Development Complex at Arnold Air Force Base, TN. This subject matter expert will serve as a senior technical advisor to an integrated team responsible for design, construction, installation, commissioning, and operation of a new hypersonics ground test facility in support of the United States Air Force Test Operations and Sustainment efforts.

 

Open to external candidates. The selected candidate for this requisition must be available to work any shift to support test needs as mission requires.

 

Job Summary

The Senior Staff Engineer hired into this role will function as senior technical advisor to an operations and asset sustainment team to coordinate with multiple departments and contractors to support the design, construction, installation, and commissioning of a new ATF hypersonic ground test facility at Arnold AFB, TN.  The Senior Staff Engineer will provide input to fully staffing engineering, craft supervision and craft for operation of the facility. The team would be responsible for design reviews, creating statements of work, inspections, input into the installation of systems, work instruction creation/review, system safety hazard analysis creation/review, and/or facility integrated test plan creation and execution and other duties as needed.

It is an important aspect of this role to engage and facilitate engagement with personnel across other mission areas in seeking technical solutions.  The selected candidate will be responsible for representing BNH in discussions with or presentations to clients, management, test customers, and senior technical personnel, thus, comfort in verbal presentations and ability to explain highly technical approaches to a broad audience is critical.      

Job Duties:

  • Provide technical advice on test operations and facility assets sustainment
  • Provide leadership and technical advice in testing and sustainment processes
  • Conduct reviews of technical work and help develop technical capability and rigor
  • Serve as configuration manager for systems assets hierarchy including coordinating change requests and reviewing/approving Asset Condition Assessments, encouraging commonality across all test operations
  • Promote interaction with asset health assurance branch to advance use of Reliability Centered and Condition Based Maintenance practices
  • Provide technical oversight support to capital investment, maintenance, and test projects through engineering reviews and analyses of alternative approaches
  • Once the facility is completed, the Senior Staff Engineer will support the TOE’s in the operations, maintenance, and system engineering role after activation of the test bed systems is completed.
  • Providing technical support to planning, design, fabrication, procurement, installation and check outs
  • Provide strategic and tactical planning, gap identification and solution recommendations to meet current and future test and facility sustainment needs
  • Exemplifies the company core value and covenant of safety in all aspects of job including wearing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in accordance with company policy
  • It is a condition of employment to wear company issued PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) in accordance with supervisory direction and company policy
  • Performs other related duties as required

 

Basic Qualifications:

  • BS degree in mechanical engineering from an accredited college or university plus a minimum of 15 years’ post degree engineering experienc

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