Systems Engineer, Lead

Systems Engineer, Lead

The Opportunity:

As the lead Systems Engineer, you will lead the systems engineering team supporting a nationwide network of simulators and modeling capabilities for unit exercises. You will set technical direction for your team, prioritize work, and mentor systems engineers in requirements development, system architecture, integration, testing, and lifecycle management. Working with other engineering teams, you will coordinate interfaces, resolve technical dependencies, and ensure integrated solutions meet operational requirements.

You will translate operational needs into actionable system requirements and engineering tasks. You will guide your team in developing and maintaining technical baselines, evaluating design alternatives, and planning integration, verification, and validation activities. In collaboration with software, network, hardware, and cybersecurity engineers, you will support system improvements, troubleshoot complex issues, and manage engineering changes across geographically distributed environments.

You will provide hands-on technical leadership within the systems engineering team, reviewing designs, developing team capabilities, and communicating progress, recommendations, and risks to stakeholders and program leadership. You will coordinate your team’s contributions to modernization initiatives, including automation, infrastructure as code, and containerized environments. This role requires an experienced systems engineer who can lead by example, work effectively with other engineering teams, and provide onsite technical support when needed.

Join us. The world can’t wait.

You Have:8+ years of experience in systems engineering for complex systems integrating hardware, software, and networks3+ years of experience as a technical lead or lead systems engineer

Experience leading a systems engineering team, establishing technical direction, prioritizing work, mentoring engineers, and communicating technical recommendations, constraints, and progress to customers, stakeholders, and program leadership

Experience translating operational needs into system requirements, decomposing and allocating requirements, and maintaining traceability through verification and validation

Experience developing system architectures, defining interfaces, and collaborating with other engineering teams to integrate applications and capabilities

Experience planning and executing system integration, testing, verification, and validation, including establishing acceptance criteria and resolving deficiencies

Experience managing system life cycles, technical baselines, configuration control, and engineering changes across deployed environments

Experience troubleshooting complex technical issues, conducting root cause analysis, and coordinating corrective actions with other engineering teamsTS/SCI clearance

Bachelor’s degree

Nice If You Have:

Experience engineering and sustaining distributed simulation or mission rehearsal systems

Experience with the Risk Management Framework (RMF), Authority to Operate (ATO), and Authority to Connect (ATC) processes for classified systems

Experience with model-based systems engineering (MBSE)
Experience supporting Dev Sec Ops  pipelines, containerization, infrastructure as code, or automated deployment and configuration management

Experience using Python, Power Shell, or other scripting languages to support integration, troubleshooting, and automation

Knowledge of Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS)
Knowledge of MVRsimulation’s Virtual Reality Scene Generator (VRSG) or BSI’s MACE software

Clearance:

Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; TS/SCI…