Senior Reliability Engineer

Are you passionate about applying reliability and system engineering principles to analyze and assess the resilience of future strategic weapon systems?

Do you have a strong technical background in reliability engineering, safety engineering, or related experience in managing and evaluating the reliability, availability, maintainability (RAM) and resilience of weapon systems for national defense?

Are you motivated by working on multidisciplinary teams tackling some of the nation’s most critical security challenges?

If so, we are looking for someone like you to join the Reliability and Sustainment Engineering Team in the System Realization and Resilience Group (K ) within 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.

As a member of our team, you will provide subject matter expertise to inform reliability strategies, methodologies, and assessments of existing and future strategic weapons systems. We are passionate about making critical contributions to these critically important programs, and you will be a key part of our success. With your help, we will remain at the forefront of weapon systems engineering for the Force Projection Sector.

As a Senior Systems Reliability Engineer...

• Your primary responsibility will be to provide Subject Matter Expertise (SME) and thought leadership by engaging with and advising on reliability and resilience topics across several strategic deterrent systems.
• You will participate as a reliability SME in various projects, studies, and technical working groups focusing on requirements development, analysis, concept/technology development, acquisition, risk assessments, test planning and system evaluation.
• You will develop reliability methodologies and analyses of strategic deterrence weapon system capabilities and to assist in the development of future weapon system requirements.
• You will provide reliability domain expertise while leading/coordinating research, studies, and analysis on current and future weapons system capabilities and performance, as well as provide supporting data and associated recommendations to advise program sponsors.
• You will deliver formal presentations to sponsors and supporting contractors, and effectively communicate proposed concepts/solutions and analysis results. You will produce reports that bring together concept definitions, requirements, analysis results, and technical recommendations.
• You will identify risk areas to project and program leaders with recommended mitigation strategies that are cost and schedule effective to meet the needs of the program.

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

• Have a Bachelor’s degree in engineering, mathematics, physics or related technical field.
• Have 5+ years of relevant experience performing systems reliability (RAM) engineering in the design, development or evaluation of complex weapon systems.
• Have experience developing and executing reliability approaches (e.g. FMEA, FMECA, Reliability Block Diagrams, Fault Tree Analysis, Probabilistic Risk Assessment and so forth) to quantify risk and inform program decisions in early concept development, acquisition, requirements analysis, design, test and evaluation, and sustainment.
• Have familiarity with developing and allocating RAM requirements based on assessment of mission needs in relation to the end user Concept of Operations.
• Have familiarity with RAM management strategies that evolve as the system matures through DoD acquisition phases.
• Have especially strong verbal and written communication skills, as well as strong critical thinking skills.
• Have shown ability to interact effectively with and lead multidisciplinary teams, including industry and government sponsors.
• Are willing and able to travel periodically, including short duration visits…