Mission Intelligence Station Production Development Engineer

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI), an affiliate of General Atomics, is a world leader in proven, reliable remotely piloted aircraft and tactical reconnaissance radars, as well as advanced high-resolution surveillance systems.

The Agile Mission Systems (AMS) at GA-ASI in San Diego, CA is a growing center of excellence seeking high-performing technical contributors, unique talent, and future leaders in the Project Engineering (PE) role. Through the PE role, this candidate will be responsible for leading Mission Ground Segment (MGS) development and production efforts by stitching together systems of systems, developing customer-facing relationships & networks, and producing mission system capability solutions that meet end users/customer’s requirements and CONOPs.

This candidate primary role will center around mission systems architecture, rapidly fielded capabilities, tailored configurations, and prototype/production builds to meet new customer needs within GA-ASI’s Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Foreign Military Customers, and Company Owned Company Operated (COCO) Leasing Services product line.

Mission Platform Systems (MPS) group provides challenging problem sets focusing in areas but not limited to;
Multi-Mode Radars, EO/IR systems, Advanced IRST, Electronic Warfare systems, Multi-INT systems, Countermeasures, Communications, Tactical Datalinks, Automation Autonomy & Artificial Intelligence (A3I), HMI/UI, Cybersecurity, Software Architectures, Open Architectures and Standards (OMS, FACE, STANAG, etc), Networking, Modeling & Simulation.

• With limited direction, provide leadership, direction, and guidance to a multi-discipline engineering team by determining technical objectives and/or solutions to resolve highly technical and complex engineering problems across development, manufacturing, and sustainment programs.
• Manage and execute complex cross-functional projects involving software and hardware components to cost, schedule, and performance expectations.
• Lead system level Qualification, Verification and Validation Testing of hardware and software with emphasis placed on deriving & tracking test requirements, generation of system level Test Plans and Procedures, conducting Lab/Ground/Flight testing.
• Quickly grasp and understand the full scope of Mission Intelligence Station integration & test activities and come up to speed quickly in new areas. Take on high-level problems and recommend a technical path forward.
• Demonstrate proficiency in problem solving, root cause analysis and drawing change procedures.
• Strong ability to collaborate and draw support and guidance from senior engineering staff and program management offices.
• Mission Architect:
  Lead design, drive selection of hardware & software, integrate and test communications networks across a variety of platforms and systems with a focus on datacenters and intelligence collection/exploitation products. Support mission architecture implementations and designs.
• Focused on driving interoperability through Open Architectures (e.g. AMS GRA), and Autonomy & AI.
• Develop Artifacts: create specifications block diagrams, system interconnect diagrams, and define interfaces and ICDs for MGS intelligence systems.
• Test & Evaluate:
  Configure, integrate, simulate, test, and evaluate MGS functionality, networks and topologies.
• Team Leadership:
  Lead Functional Engineering teams, ensuring alignment with business and strategic objectives, and allocating technical resources to achieve stated and program objectives.
• Collaboration:
  
  Foster a collaborative environment and build consensus for technical solutions between GA functional engineering departments, program management, external GA P&Ls, and customer stakeholders.
• Customer Engagement:
  Represent programs as the engineering lead, ensuring consistent and appropriate messaging to senior internal/executive stakeholders.
• Proposals:
  Support engineering estimates and proposals in response to customer and leadership directives.
• Technical Reviews:
  Perform system analysis, conduct trade studies, author technical white papers, and generate customer technical data packages.…