Early - Mid Career R&D Systems Engineer - Surety Systems Engineering, Onsite

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The 2910/2920 Surety Systems Engineer (SSE) develops, implements, and maintains strategies to lead the R&D project team in successful product qualification and delivery. SSEs interface across multiple enterprises, integrating all team members in relevant multidisciplinary technology areas. They exercise critical thinking to identify, assess, and mitigate risks through the practical application of defect prevention to develop a safe, reliable, and robust product.

SSEs provide critical R&D contributions throughout the entire product realization lifecycle; these contributions include requirements engineering and traceability, validation and verification (V&V), supply chain risk management/assessment, and crucial technical documentation.

Projects span across all phases of the product realization lifecycle from conceptual design and development, production, maintenance, and retirement. Projects include components, subsystems, and systems. Opportunities exist in Albuquerque, NM. Some domestic travel is required to support business needs.

• Apply technical judgment using advanced engineering principles, analysis, and prevention‑based methods to recognize and formulate innovative solutions for a wide variety of technical challenges related to electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, software engineering, computer science, and materials science in support of product realization.
• Collaborate with R&D teams to cultivate independent, necessary, feasible, unambiguous (to include tolerances), and verifiable system requirements; aid teams in ensuring the design meets performance requirements.
• Lead research and development teams in identifying and transforming unknown technical challenges into known technical risks to ensure and improve the safety, security, and reliability of the product.
• Determine and manage critical design and production parameters; identify manufacturing activities that affect product performance.
• Work with multidisciplinary teams to develop verification methods for complex requirements, often from a combination of analysis and simulated environmental testing.
• Interface with NNSA design agency and the production agency to ensure design for manufacturability and mitigate risks and defects early on.
• Author analyses, requirements traceability reports, verification/validation plans, qualification plans, and essential engineering authorizations that ensure the product fully meets its requirements and design intent.
• Lead drawing reviews and contribute to design reviews for the project team, ensuring requirements have been successfully integrated into the design…