Defense and space engineering services for missile defense and intelligence
Mission Driven Research is a Huntsville engineering services firm supporting federal defense, space and intelligence agencies. Its stack centers on model-based systems engineering (MagicDraw, Rhapsody, SysML, IBM DOORS) alongside MATLAB, Simulink and STK for flight analysis, consistent with a stated push away from document-driven engineering. Hiring is accelerating and overwhelmingly senior-to-principal engineering, pointing to growth in technically demanding program work.
Mission Driven Research, Inc. (MDR) is a privately held engineering services company headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama, founded in 2011. It provides technical services to U.S. federal customers including the Missile Defense Agency, NASA, the U.S. Army and the Defense Intelligence Agency. Core disciplines span systems, cyber, aerospace, mechanical and electrical engineering. The company employs 51–200 people and hires within the United States.
MDR uses MBSE tools like MagicDraw, Rhapsody, SysML and IBM DOORS, plus MATLAB, Simulink, STK, Python, Java, C++, GitLab CI/CD, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS and Azure.
Yes. Hiring is accelerating and concentrated in engineering, with most openings at senior and principal levels, all based in the United States.
Job posts point to missile defense target vehicle development, trajectory reconstruction and best estimated trajectory work for flight tests, solid fuel debris modeling, and intelligence analysis support at MSIC.
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