Senior Principal Systems Engineer

Senior Principal Systems Engineer
- Weapons and  Wayne,
-Time(FTE)_Direct Hire

Position Title:

Senior Principal Systems Engineer
- Weapons and Energetics

Job Type: Full-Time

Location:

Fort Wayne, IN

Base Salary: $174,000 to $183,000 + Best-in-class benefits

Industry: Aerospace / Aviation / Defense

Job Category:
Engineering
- Systems

Department of Defense Secret security clearance is required at time of hire.

• Education Requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, or a related Science, Engineering or Mathematics field, plus a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience; or Master’s degree, plus a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience.

Department of Defense Secret security clearance is required at time of hire. Applicants selected will be subject to a U.S. Government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

• Due to the nature of work performed within our facilities, U.S. citizenship is required.

• Demonstrated technical ownership of warhead, energetic payload, munitions, or comparable high-consequence hardware through design, qualification, and production readiness.
• Experience defining payload architecture and decomposing system requirements into interfaces, verification evidence, technical trade studies, and risk-reduction plans.
• Ability to balance mission effects, safety, insensitive-munitions objectives, integration, manufacturability, cost, and schedule in defensible engineering decisions.
• Experience managing interfaces among energetic payloads, initiation or fuzing systems, mechanical structures, and weapon or delivery platforms.
• Experience planning and leading verification, qualification, environmental, and live-fire test activities; interpreting results and driving corrective action.
• Experience applying system-safety, hazard-analysis, and safety-evidence practices for energetic or safety-critical hardware.
• Experience with supplier technical oversight, configuration control, traceability, and technical-data review for controlled or safety-critical components.
• Experience with modeling and simulation processes and tools (e.g. Design of Experiments ,Digital Twins, Ansys Tool chain, MATLAB, Hydrocode, CTH).
• Technical leadership experience across engineering, safety, test, manufacturing, quality, suppliers, customers, and program management.
• Ability to lead technical reviews, communicate risks and evidence clearly, and mentor engineers in disciplined engineering practice.

• Leadership on fielded or government-qualified warhead, energetic-payload, or munitions programs.
• Direct experience shaping or executing insensitive-munitions strategy, survivability assessment, or associated redesign efforts.
• Experience preparing technical evidence for DoD or service munitions-safety reviews.
• Background with government laboratories, test ranges, or munitions-development organizations.
• Experience using physics-based analysis, modeling, and test correlation to support payload design decisions.
• Experience transitioning energetic hardware from development into qualified, repeatable production.
• Experience supporting multiple military services, international programs, or controlled export programs.

• An exciting career path with opportunities for continuous learning and development.
• Research oriented work, alongside award winning teams developing practical solutions for our nation’s security
• Flexible schedules with every other Friday off work, if desired (9/80 schedule)
• Competitive benefits, including 401k matching, flex time off, paid parental leave, healthcare benefits, health & wellness programs, employee resource and social groups, and more
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• This position is fully onsite or hybrid/flex with opportunity to be fully remote/telework for candidates with strong experience and background.
• While on-site, you will be a part of the Advanced Electronics Systems team located in Ft Wayne, Indiana

• Energetic Payloads
• Warheads
• Modeling and Simulation Processes and Tools
• Security
  
  Clearance Required:
  
  Yes