OCCUPATIONAL SUMMARY:

Provide support to NAVAIR Training Systems Division, Orlando, FL in visual and sensor simulation system design, development, analysis, and test and evaluation for aviation training systems.

TYPICAL DUTIES:

• Perform preliminary engineering analysis to define simulation system requirements 
• Evaluate training system proposed visual system designs and tests
• Define synthetic natural environment content requirements and advise project team on alternatives to achieve training effective visual cues in the environment model
• Test and evaluate training system visual systems
• Provide analysis to support Government planning for future visual simulation systems 
• Maintain technological base in state-of-the-art image synthetic environment generation, image generation, and display techniques, and ensure application of the best technology to Government training systems
• Accomplishes additional tasks as assigned

REQUISITE SKILLS:

• Must possess established experience with geographic information systems and the use of mapping, charting, geodesy, and imagery source data;
• Must possess established experience in synthetic environment generation, including terrain and model development in a variety of formats and tool sets for visual/sensor simulation;
• Must possess established, practical experience in methods of real-time visual and sensor scene generation, which support unprogrammed motion of the simulation viewpoint throughout a complex and often highly detailed three-dimensional simulated visual/sensor environment;
• Must possess established experience in the application of display system technologies and methods of effectively integrating these into visual display systems suitable for training and simulation under normal and both simulated and stimulated sensor conditions; experience must include Flat panel and cathode ray tube display technologies, Video projection technologies applicable to simulation systems, and Relevant simulation display system technologies such as real and virtual image systems, beamsplitters, projection optics, image collimation, screen technologies, head mounted displays, automatic tracking systems, and auto-alignment systems;
• Must possess an established understanding of sensor technologies such as infrared, image intensification, television, and radar and practical experience in how those technologies are simulated/stimulated and correlated into simulation systems;
• Must possess experience in military training systems and general training simulation technology;
• Must possess or be able to acquire a Government SECRET security clearance

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:

B.S. or higher degree in engineering, engineering technology, physics, electro-optics, mathematics, or computer science and a minimum of six (6) years of applied visual/sensor systems engineering with simulation and training systems. Four (4) years of additional visual/sensor system experience may be substituted for the formal degree requirement.