Principal, Mission Engineering Capabilities

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Arlington, VA, US

nou Systems, Inc. (nSI) is seeking a Principal, Mission Engineering Capabilities to help define, build, and advance a differentiated mission engineering capability across the company.

This is not intended to be solely a traditional Mission Engineering, Digital Engineering, or Model-Based Systems Engineering position. Rather, the Principal will help integrate these and other complementary disciplines—including modeling and simulation, systems engineering, data analytics, artificial intelligence, digital twins, experimentation, and related technologies to help customers understand complex mission problems, evaluate alternatives, make better investment decisions, and deliver improved operational capability.

This is a highly collaborative, cross-company leadership role reporting directly to the President and CEO. The Principal will work closely with nSI's Business Development organization, Engineering Services Division, Technical Solutions Division, corporate leadership team, and technical leaders and subject-matter experts across the company.

The position is intentionally entrepreneurial and is expected to evolve as nSI's capabilities, customers, partners, technologies, and market opportunities develop.

The Principal, Mission Engineering Capabilities will:

• Develop and help execute a company-wide strategy and roadmap for mission engineering capabilities.
• Assess nSI's existing people, contracts, technologies, tools, intellectual property, customer relationships, and technical strengths that can contribute to this capability.
• Identify the technical disciplines, methodologies, tools, partnerships, and investments required to establish a differentiated mission engineering capability.
• Integrate Mission Engineering, Digital Engineering, MBSE, modeling and simulation, data analytics, artificial intelligence, digital twins, experimentation, systems engineering, and related capabilities where they create customer value.
• Identify priority markets, mission areas, customers, programs, partnerships, and business opportunities where nSI can provide distinctive value.
• Support technical strategy, capture planning, solution development, white papers, proposals, and other business-development activities.
• Help Engineering Services develop rigorous, repeatable mission engineering methodologies, frameworks, and service offerings.
• Help Technical Solutions identify technology investments, IR&D opportunities, product concepts, partnerships, and commercialization opportunities.
• Evaluate opportunities to develop proprietary technologies as well as situations in which nSI should leverage, license, integrate, acquire, or partner with existing capabilities.
• Recommend areas for IR&D, SBIR-related development, strategic partnerships, technology acquisition, licensing, and internally developed capabilities.
• Establish technical methodologies, best practices, communities of practice, and workforce-development activities.
• Mentor and develop technical leaders across the company.
• Strengthen collaboration among nSI's technical divisions, Business Development organization, and corporate leadership.
• Help establish nSI as a recognized leader in solving complex mission-level problems through rigorous engineering, analysis, integration, and innovation.

During the first year, the Principal will be expected to place particular emphasis on:

• Assessing current capabilities: Develop a comprehensive understanding of the people, programs, technologies, tools, intellectual property, customer relationships, and technical strengths that can contribute to mission engineering.
• Defining the strategy: Develop a recommended nSI mission engineering strategy and multi-year capability roadmap.
• Identifying priority opportunities: Determine the customers, mission areas, programs, partnerships, and market opportunities where nSI can create distinctive value.
• Building an integrated team: Establish mechanisms for bringing together personnel and capabilities from Business Development, Engineering Services, Technical Solutions, and other parts of the company.
• Developing differentiated technical approaches: Create methodologies and technical frameworks that are rigorous, repeatable, and valuable to nSI customers.
• Shaping technology…