Senior Systems Engineering Lead

This role is built for a systems engineering leader who can drive acquisition documentation, mature technical baselines, manage risk, and anchor the technical backbone of a major Group 4+ UAS program through RFP release and source selection. It reflects a high‑accountability, high‑visibility position requiring mastery of requirements development, MBSE, risk governance, and cross‑functional leadership.

The Senior Systems Engineering Lead for the Group 4+ UAS program serves as the primary technical integrator and acquisition engineering authority responsible for shaping, refining, and delivering all major technical artifacts required for the program’s RFP release, source selection, and early execution phases. This role leads development of the System Performance Specification (SPS), Systems Engineering Plan (SEP), IP/Data Rights strategy, and risk management framework, ensuring alignment with the MTA‑RP pathway and government acquisition objectives.

This position requires deep expertise in requirements decomposition, MBSE, risk governance, technical evaluation planning, and cross‑functional coordination across legal, contracting, safety, and engineering teams.

• Bachelor's Degree + 20 years of relevant experience or a Master's Degree + 18 years of relevant experience.
  • Degree must be an engineering degree from an accredited program of study.
• Ability to obtain and maintain U.S. security clearance.
• Advanced experience inDoW systems engineering, preferably with UAS, aviation, or complex weapon systems.
• Demonstrated leadership in acquisition documentation, including SEP, SPS, AP, and RFP technical sections.
• Expertise in MBSE, requirements decomposition, and digital engineering environments.
• Strong understanding of IP/Data Rights, sustainment strategies, and government contracting interfaces.
• Proven ability to lead risk management, technical working groups, and cross‑functional IPTs.
• Experience supporting source selection, evaluation criteria development, and technical review boards.
• Exceptional communication skills and ability to synthesize complex technical issues for senior leadership.

• Prior experience with MTA‑RP or rapid acquisition pathways.
• Familiarity with UAS mission sets, payload integration, and air‑vehicle performance analysis.
• Experience defending technical requirements during safety reviews or independent engineering assessments.
• Background in LSI strategy development or integration model trade‑space analysis.

Work Environment & Physical Demands:

This job typically operates in a professional office environment with moderate noise level. This roleroutinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets andfax machines. This role may be required to remain stationary for extended periods of time. This role may require lifting lightweight objects, typically used in an office environment, such as a computer laptop,files, or copy paper.

For some, acknowledged at hire and in support of specified contract tasks, this role may be required to
work outside in moderate weather conditions, stand/remain stationary for long hours, and climb in and
out of vehicles/aircraft. The noise level in this work environment ranges from moderate to loud and may
require protective devices such as wearing ear plugs. Specific vision abilities required include close vision,
distance vision and the ability to differentiate between colors.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to
successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to
enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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