Senior Systems Engineer​/Model- Systems Engineering Lead

Title: Senior Systems Engineer / Model-Based Systems Engineering Lead

At K , we deliver science, technology and engineering solutions to governments and companies around the world. K  employs approximately 37,000 people worldwide with customers in more than 85 countries and operations in over 28 countries. K  is proud to work with its customers across the globe to provide technology, value-added services, and long-term operations and maintenance services to ensure consistent delivery with predictable results.

Trinzic is the future independent company to be created through the planned spin-off of K 's Mission Technology Solutions business, expected in January 2027. Our people work at the frontier of what is possible, delivering solutions in challenging environments and advancing some of the world's highest-priority national security and space missions.

Backed by decades of mission success, deep expertise, and trusted partnerships, Trinzic will launch as a global organization with more than 18,000 employees supporting customers around the world. Join us at a defining moment and help shape the future of a company built to tackle complex challenges and make a meaningful impact.

Candidates who join K 's Mission Technology Solutions business before the spin-off will transition to Trinzic when the separation is complete and will not need to reapply for employment.

The program team this engineer will join supports more than 20 projects across systems engineering, integration, and reliability engineering analysis for Naval Aviation. The selected candidate will become part of a collaborative K  team where coordination across projects, disciplines, and technical leaders is encouraged by program leadership.

• Innovative Projects:
  Support high-impact Naval Aviation work that applies modern engineering methods, emerging technologies, and mission-focused solutions to complex defense challenges.
• Collaborative Environment:
  Work with experienced engineers, program leaders, and technical teammates in a collaborative setting that values coordination across projects and disciplines.
• Impactful Work:
  Contribute directly to the engineering, integration, and sustainment of defense systems that support mission readiness and national security.
• Career Growth:
  This project has rapid growth potential, with strong opportunities for increased responsibility, technical leadership, and potential upward mobility within the next 12 months as team and program needs evolve.

K  is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer / Model-Based Systems Engineering Lead to support NAVAIR aircraft survivability and electronic warfare systems, primarily the AN/ALE-47 Countermeasures Dispensing System, Common Carriage program, and iASE Programmer development effort. The successful candidate will lead requirements development, system architecture, interface definition, integration planning, verification, and engineering coordination across government, platform, laboratory, and industry stakeholders. This role requires translating operational needs into clear, traceable, and verifiable technical requirements across hardware, software, cybersecurity, aircraft integration, testing, logistics, and sustainment activities in a collaborative defense acquisition environment.

Work may include unclassified and classified activities, virtual and in-person technical meetings, and coordination with geographically distributed government organizations, aircraft platform teams, laboratories, and industry partners.

This position is expected to be approximately 75% remote; however, the selected candidate must reside near Patuxent River, MD, or King of Prussia, PA, for weekly in-person meetings and access to Secure Compartmented Information Facilities (SCIFs) at these locations.

• Lead systems engineering support for NAVAIR aircraft survivability and electronic warfare programs, with emphasis on the AN/ALE-47 Common Carriage system and iASE Programmer.
• Develop, review, decompose, allocate, trace, and verify system, subsystem, hardware, software, interface, cybersecurity, and verification requirements.
• Develop and maintain SysML system architecture models, requirements relationships, interface models, and black-box and white-box system representations using MBSE tools.
• Analyze electrical, data, control, and communication interfaces, including Ethernet, MIL-STD-1553, RS-422, discrete signals, aircraft power, secure connectivity, and mission-data loading.
• Coordinate…