Principal Engineer

Overview

Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc. (SPA) delivers high-impact, technical solutions to complex national security issues. With over 50 years of business expertise and consistent growth, we are known for continuous innovation for our government customers, in both the US and abroad. Our exceptionally talented team is highly collaborative in spirit and practice, producing Results that Matter. Come work with the best!

We offer opportunity, unique challenges, and clear-sighted commitment to the mission.

SPA’s Sea Land Air (SLA) Division supports a diverse portfolio of national security government clients, including the Undersea Enterprise, the Navy Surface Community, the Navy MPTE Enterprise, the Air Force, Army, DoD Agencies, DARPA, international clients including the Canadian Navy and Australian Defence Force. The Integrated Warfare Systems Group (IWSG), within the SLA Division, comprises more than 80 staff that provide program and project management, systems and digital engineering, software, test & evaluation, logistics, cybersecurity, international/Foreign Military Sales, strategic communications, and IT support to numerous Government customers, including Program Executive Office, Integrated Warfare Systems (PEO IWS) Directorates, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD), and Office of Naval Research, Naval Research Laboratory (NRL).

We are seeking a Principal Engineer to support NAVSEA from SPA's office in Dahlgren, VA. The successful candidate will support Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD), which is responsible for developing, fielding, and sustaining operationally superior warfare systems and performing the full spectrum of warfare analysis, research, development, integration, test & evaluation, and certification to provide quality systems engineering and integration for the Department of Defense.

Position responsibilities include provision of efficient mission and systems engineering in the areas of in-service and future Ship and Combat Systems integration engineering, Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD), Ship Self Defense System (SSDS), and Land-Based Test Site planning and activation.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in an engineering, scientific, business, or technical discipline
• DoD granted SECRET security clearance
• At least fifteen (15) years of experience in one or more of the following areas:
  Combat Systems Cybersecurity;
  Ship Self Defense System (SSDS);
  Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) Class;
  Zumwalt Class Destroyer;
  Aegis Integrated Combat System;
  Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense; and/or Weapon/Sensor Combat Systems

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience coordinating development activities associated with engineering systems, capabilities, and activities
• Demonstrated experience conducting detailed and complex systems engineering, including functional and system-level requirements analysis, requirements generation, and technical community review
• Demonstrated experience in Dynamic Object-Oriented Requirements System (DOORS) or DOORS Next
• Demonstrated experience in developing
  
  Functional Area
  
  Assessments (FAAs) and working with Mission Area Assessments (MAAs) in relation to engineering tasks

• Seniority level:
  Mid-Senior level
• Employment type:
  
  Full-time
• Job function:
  Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries:
  Defense and Space Manufacturing, Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing, and Armed Forces