Sr. Principal Systems Engineer; active secret clearance required - Andover, MA

Job Summary

Mercury Systems is seeking a Sr. Principal Systems Engineer to develop the next-generation of Mercury's industry-leading edge processing solutions. In this role, you'll be the Lead Systems Engineering (SEL) working within our Integrated Processing Solutions business unit designing, integrating, verifying, and delivering rugged, embedded systems. You'll be working in a matrix organization as part of a multi-disciplined engineering team while collaborating with Line of Business Chief Engineers, systems engineering, program management, business development, operations, supply chain, and executive leadership to meet customer needs.

A strong team leader who is motivated to really make a difference, with the ability to make an impact to influence the outcome of projects. You'll be working on multiple programs in shorter cycle times and solving critical problems. You'll gain a breadth of experience and strengthen your engineering toolbox.

• Bachelor's Science degree or higher in a STEM discipline
• Typically requires 10+ years of Systems Engineering experience spanning capture, design, integration, verification, and validation with at least one of the following:
  • high-performance embedded processing systems
  • server systems, and/or
  • RF/EW systems
• Experience in System Engineering activities such as business development support, customer engagement, operational concept development, functional/physical architecture definition, requirements development, trade study execution, interface definition, technical baseline management, and transition to production
• Experience and understanding of the complete program lifecycle
• Experience leading engineering teams
• Experience working with Business Development in providing technical leadership, developing bids for capture, and writing technical/management volumes
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Experience providing leadership and mentoring
• An Active DoD Secret Clearance is required. US Citizenship is required.

• Advanced degree higher in a STEM discipline
• Familiarity with (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). Security Engineering principals
• Understanding and experience with Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
• Experience with Cameo Enterprise Architect and SysML modeling (or equivalent)
• Experience with Jama, Confluence, Jira, Bitbucket
• Familiarity with high-speed sensor processing signal chain
• Familiarity with high-performance RF or digital processing solutions/radar and EW systems
• Familiarity with FPGA/CPLD or CPU/MCU processing systems
• Excellent time management, organizational skills, and earned value management
• Ability to work multi-disciplined engineering problems and foster collaboration across inter-Business Unit/Line of Business boundaries
• Ability to travel, up to 10% of the time

• This position is hybrid, and the candidate must live in a commutable location to either our Andover, MA (preferred) or Hudson, NH locations.

Fulltime Equivalent Job Grade Salary Range for this position
* $ - $ annual salary for in-office or hybrid employees in FL, GA, IN, AZ, AL, MD or TX, and all remote employees
* $ - $ annual salary for in-office or hybrid employees in VA, CA, NH or MA
* $ - $ annual salary for in-office or hybrid employees in NJ

Mercury considers a variety of factors to determine individual base salary offers to candidates, including:

• the role and related responsibilities;
• prior work experience;
• education, training, skills and certifications;
• internal equity with others employed by Mercury in similar roles;
• geographic location; and
• alignment with market data.

In addition to base salary, Mercury provides a variety of benefits for team members including:

• bonus opportunities (or special incentives for sales positions);
• health, life and disability insurance;
• company-paid holidays and time off;
• 401(k) retirement plan;
• discounted employee stock purchase plan;
• tuition reimbursement; and
• access to professional development and personal wellness platforms including Linked In Learning, Headspace, Aaptiv and Virgin Pulse.

Team members at the Director or Vice President level are also eligible to receive annual stock-based awards.

Mercury offers a 9/80 alternative work schedule that provides employees more opportunity for work/ life balance (available based off location)

Mercury Systems is a technology company that makes the world a safer, more secure place. We push processing power to the tactical edge, making the latest commercial technologies profoundly more accessible for today's most challenging aerospace and defense missions. From silicon to system scale, Mercury enables customers to accelerate innovation and turn data into decision superiority. Headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts, Mercury employs more than 2,300 people in 24 locations worldwide.

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