Lead Systems Engineer

Lead Systems Engineer

Textron Systems, best known for innovative defense technologies and services, makes things that fly, hover, zoom and launch. We protect soldiers, power industries, and serve customers in aerospace and defense, specialized vehicles, turf care, and fuel systems. As part of Textron Inc., one of the world’s leading multi-industry companies, we are recognized for powerful brands such as Bell, Cessna, Beechcraft, and E-Z-GO.

With more than 50 years of experience, we bring the agility of a small business to meet urgent requirements while scaling quickly to solve big problems across functions, sites, and business lines. Our seven domains specialize in Air, Sea, Land, Weapons Systems, Electronic Systems, Propulsion, and Testing and Training Simulations.

The Uncrewed Land and Air Systems team in Hunt Valley seeks a passionate Senior Systems Engineer to join our team and work on innovative products in ground robotics and air domains. This interdisciplinary role supports the full life‑cycle development of our products, including new product development, upgrades, payload design, integration, testing, and fielding solutions for military and commercial customers. The ideal candidate will have experience in hardware and/or software integration, managing requirements derivation and allocation, and working successfully in a collaborative team environment.

A strong desire to take ownership of design efforts is essential.

• Engineering Design and Development:
• Lead full‑lifecycle engineering design and development activities on established and disruptive new products.
• Work across engineering disciplines to develop conceptual designs that solve complex problems.
• Perform requirements analysis and derivation to understand customer needs.
• Develop architecture models utilizing SysML to support requirements development and derivation.
• Use requirements management and test tools to decompose program requirements.
• Model‑Based Systems Engineering (MBSE):
• Develop and maintain system models using MBSE methodologies and tools.
• Utilize SysML for creating and managing system architecture models.
• Integrate MBSE practices into the overall systems engineering process to improve design, analysis, and verification activities.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure MBSE models accurately represent system requirements and design.
• Systems Integration and Testing:
• Lead hands‑on integration of components and subsystems into Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) and/or Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs).
• Develop integration test plans and procedures to verify product integration.
• Perform analysis of data extracted from testing.
• Define methods, processes, and evaluation criteria for verifying systems, subsystems, and work products against their requirements.
• Collaboration and Communication:
• Prepare and present systems engineering work products to internal review teams and external customers at program milestone reviews.
• Interact daily with technical leads, program managers, planners, technicians, and other engineers.
• Collaborate with others within the workgroup, with other departments, and with customers.
• Project Management and Technical Direction:
• Participate in an Integrated Product Team to design new capabilities based on evaluation of all necessary development and operational considerations.
• Provide technical direction for the development, engineering, interfacing, integration, and testing of specific components of complex hardware/software systems.
• Manage system requirements and derived requirements to ensure delivery of production systems that are compatible with the defined system architecture(s).
• Assist with the development of system requirements, functional requirements, and allocation of the same to individual hardware, software, facility, and personnel components.

• Education and Experience:
• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering with 10 years of related experience (systems or test engineering preferred) OR
• Master’s Degree in Engineering with 5 years of related experience.
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• Experience with hardware and/or software integration, managing requirements derivation and allocation, or…