Systems Engineer SME, Capability Development; Engineer Systems

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Requisition Number: 26016

Required Travel: 0 – 10%

Employment Type:

Full Time/Salaried/Exempt

Anticipated Salary Range: $ – $

Security Clearance:
Secret

Level of

Experience:

Senior

100% onsite at WPAFB

No virtual or hybrid

Huntington Ingalls Industries, Mission Technologies Division (HII‑MT) is seeking a qualified candidate for Lead Systems Engineer, Subject Matter Expert, Capability Development. The Systems Engineer performs technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, and supportability and effectiveness analyses for total systems.

Analyses are performed at all levels of the total system product including concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, maintenance, and sustainability. The engineer must ensure the logical and systematic conversion of requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical and engineering principles.

The engineer will present a deep understanding of requirements development in an agile environment, architecture definition/decomposition, testing philosophies/methodologies, and verification coverage. They will participate in the Systems Engineering life cycle, including requirements development, architecture development, system analyses (reliability, maintainability, etc.), integration and test planning, and system verification.

• 15 years relevant experience with a Bachelors in related field; 13 years relevant experience with a Masters in related field; 10 years relevant experience with a PhD; or High School Diploma or equivalent and 19 years relevant experience.
• Position requires significant experience with either Radar design or Signals analysis.
• Outstanding ability to proactively communicate via telephone and email with stakeholders in remote locations.
• Extensive experience working with technical experts to define requirements in order to advance capability development.
• Successful demonstration of technical and programmatic risk identification and mitigation.
• Proven demonstration of the ability to identify the sufficient level of detail needed to make significant program decisions and quantify and communicate that rationale to stakeholders.
• Tireless focus on the mission and making capabilities development a reality.
• Strong operations, acquisition, and test background: understanding operations vernacular, acquisition process, and test environment and controls to communicate across communities.
• Innovative and strategic mindset to identify future capabilities and requirements that can/should be integrated into near‑term solutions.
• A solid leadership track record of leading technical teams of skilled engineers while working competing resource demands.
• Tasking includes system design and trade studies, RF chain analysis, algorithm development and system performance analysis.
• Experience with Radar Signal Processing Techniques, System Integration, and Test.
• Advanced understanding with analysis tools/programs and their relation to overall capability development efforts.
• Hands‑on design, test, integration, and verification support across lab facilities requiring skills in algorithms, software, hardware, and networking.
• Support technical publications.
• Responsible for planning, implementing and reporting on Systems Engineering activities.
• Support technical & functional leadership through the identification of risk and the management of engineers, technicians and functional team leads.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI security clearance with advanced security checks.
• Secret clearance minimum to start.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, physical or mental disability, age, or veteran status or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.

If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please send an e‑mail to and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Reasonable accommodations are considered on a case‑by‑case basis. Please note that only those inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this email address. Additionally, you may also call 1‑844‑849‑8463 for assistance.

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