Senior Nuclear Surety Systems Engineer

Description

Are you interested in applying technical leadership, innovation, system engineering skills, and specialty nuclear surety expertise towardthe difficult critical challenges of ensuring the safety and security of this nation’s most critical defense systems?

Are you eager to apply strategy and innovative engineering approaches to transform how the DoD evaluates and analyzes modern nuclear surety design?

Would you like to help strategic weapon system programs ensure compliance with the DoD’s nuclear certification process that is crucial to ensuring the safety, security, and effectiveness of nuclear weapons and their systems, which are integral to national security?

If so, we are looking for someone like you to serve as the Senior Nuclear Surety Systems Engineer within the System Realization and Resilience Group (K ) of the Force Projection Sector. Our team is responsible for enabling the realization of strategic systems, ensuring resilience and specialty disciplines are integrated throughout system development, and supporting credible verification of strategic weapon systems.

We lead efforts in systems engineering, system security engineering, test and integration, digital engineering, nuclear command and control, and reliability engineering.

• Serve as the Lab’s focal point and thought leader for nuclear surety engineering with emphasis on leveraging and implementing systems engineering principles to enhance strategic systems nuclear surety design and modifications.
• Develop and implement systemsengineeringprocesses to ensure compliance withnuclearsuretystandards.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to review, analyze, and validate systems to ensure they meetnuclearsuretyrequirements.
• Review nuclear surety requirements in support of Navy Technical Objectives Guidelines (TOG) and Air Force Weapon System Specification (WSS), recommend improvements, and apply system engineering best practices for requirement trace and validation.
• Provide technical guidance on nuclear weapon system (NWS) safety to DoD sponsors.
• Perform independent evaluation and safety assessments to influence design improvement consistent with government requirements.
• Review strategic weapon system certification processes and activities to ensure objective quality evidence and artifacts required for safety, security, control, and reliability certifications are identified, defined, understood, and accessible to sponsors.
• Develop nuclear surety risk assessment methodologies, models, and probabilities of occurrence for nuclear weapon mishap scenarios and assess mitigating factors.
• Conduct risk assessments and develop mitigation strategies to ensure the safety and security ofnuclearsystems.
• Analyze vulnerabilities and security risks, to include support to authorized special read-in programs (e.g., Unauthorized Launch Analysis (ULA)).
• Prepare technical products, reports, and deliverables to sponsors and stakeholders.

You meet our minimum qualifications for the job if you...

• A Bachelor’s degree in engineering, physics, computer science, or a related technical discipline.
• At least 4 years of relevant experience analyzing, evaluating, or ensuring the safety and nuclear surety of strategic weapon systems and/or related facilities.
• Knowledge of nuclear surety principles, standards, and regulations.
• Working knowledge of NWS safety design principles, NWS security, and use control (electronic and mechanical features that prevent unauthorized use and allow authorized use; includes PAL, CDS, APS).
• Excellent interpersonal skills, written and oral communications skills, and organizational skills, with a record of accomplishment in a team environment.
• Are willing and able to…