Solutions Engineer — R&D Mission Platforms
Solutions Engineer — R&D Mission Platforms
Location: United States
Work Model: Remote
Travel: Approximately 15% for R&D events, technical demos, and collaboration sessions
Clearance: U.S. citizenship required. Active Secret clearance preferred; candidates must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance.
Role Overview
Rackner is seeking a Solutions Engineer — R&D Mission Platforms to support internal R&D efforts focused on demonstrating, implementing, and refining mission-relevant technical capabilities.
This role sits at the intersection of engineering, technical delivery, stakeholder engagement, and R&D feedback loops. You will work closely with Rackner ’s technical leadership and R&D engineers to help translate operational needs, customer feedback, and demo outcomes into practical technical solutions.
The right candidate is technically credible, comfortable in customer-facing settings, and able to explain complex engineering concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences. This is not a traditional sales role. It is a hands-on technical role supporting demos, prototypes, implementation efforts, and mission-focused solution development.
This role is well suited for someone who enjoys working with engineers, users, and stakeholders to understand problems, shape solutions, and help move concepts from demonstration to usable capability.
What You'll Do
- Support technical demos, R&D events, solution walkthroughs, and mission-focused engagements
- Work with R&D engineers and technical leadership to understand platform capabilities and communicate them clearly to stakeholders
- Translate customer, user, or mission feedback into actionable technical requirements for the R&D team
- Help bridge the gap between operational needs and software/platform implementation
- Assist with technical implementation, configuration, integration, and validation of prototype capabilities
- Participate in build, demo, feedback, and iteration cycles for emerging R&D solutions
- Explain technical concepts, system behavior, and solution tradeoffs to technical and non-technical audiences
- Capture stakeholder feedback and help prioritize improvements, enhancements, or follow-on development
- Collaborate with engineers to test, troubleshoot, and refine software capabilities in cloud-native or containerized environments
- Support documentation, demo preparation, technical briefings, and post-event feedback summaries
- Represent Rackner ’s technical work with clarity, professionalism, and credibility in collaborative settings
Minimum Qualifications
- U.S. citizenship required due to federal contract requirements
- Eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance
- Background in solutions engineering, software development, systems engineering, platform engineering, DevSecOps, or a related technical discipline
- Experience collaborating with engineering teams to deliver software, cloud, infrastructure, or platform capabilities
- Ability to explain complex concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Skilled at gathering user, customer, or stakeholder needs and converting feedback into actionable requirements
- Familiarity with APIs, cloud services, containers, DevSecOps practices, and modern software delivery approaches
- Ability to work independently in ambiguous, prototype-driven, or fast-moving settings
- Willingness to travel approximately 15% for R&D events, demos, collaboration sessions, or mission engagements
Preferred Qualifications
- Active Secret clearance or higher
- Background supporting DoD, Air Force, Platform One, Big Bang, mission planning, C2, ISR, autonomy, or defense software initiatives
- Participation in demos, pilots, field events, customer-facing discussions, technical briefings, or live exercises
- Experience collaborating with operators, mission users, customers, or cross-functional stakeholders
- Hands-on skills