Principal Systems Engineer

Systems Engineering and Test Capabilities (SE&TC) is an exciting and challenging environment where you will have the opportunity to design, develop and partner with multiple disciplines to shape innovative solutions for customers.

Join our organization and experience the Systems V engineering life cycle while interfacing with a variety of engineering disciplines, subject matter experts, chief engineers, and customers to ensure we design, integrate, and strengthen our systems to work the first time and every time for our warfighters.

• Update, maintain, and improve requirements and requirements documentation for development and production efforts, including but not limited to software and hardware subsystems.
• Create and manage systems architecture, requirements, interface definitions and description documents, system integration, and system verification using Cameo by collaborating with multiple product team leads and subject matter experts (SMEs) to obtain necessary design information.
• Participate in technical conversations with the customer.
• Work with suppliers and the supply chain organization for procured items managed through the role of responsible engineering authority (REA) for that assembly.
• Lead verification and validation efforts, ensuring all requirements are being assessed during Verification and Qualification testing.
• Conduct trade studies and present results to customers.
• Work closely with the software and hardware teams and chief engineer on a variety of technical tasks.
• Help to onboard, mentor, and guide team members using core systems engineering skills.
• Provide technical expertise in development, integration, troubleshooting and failure investigations.
• Lead systems verification reviews with the chief engineer, lead systems engineer, and integrated product team leadership.
• Work closely with the systems, software, configurable logic, hardware, and test teams on a variety of technical tasks.
• Become the knowledgeable and “go‑to” systems engineer for the program.
• Support statistical process control assessments in the factory and as part of hardware verification of missile sections and launch platforms, as well as at higher level assemblies.
• Facilitate knowledge transfer within and across integrated product teams and cross‑product teams to include cross‑functional collaboration and coordination.
• Lead peer reviews and formal release of contract data requirements lists (CDRLs) and technical data package (TDP) documents.
• Support test equipment software integration and verification for system test.
• Support system performance analysis.

• Typically requires a bachelor’s degree in a science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) discipline, such as electrical engineering, systems engineering, physics or math, and a minimum of 8 (five) years of relevant experience.
• Experience with at least one of the following: software, firmware or configurable logic, hardware, integration, and/or test.
• Experience in one or more of the following areas: model‑based systems engineering (MBSE), requirements development, requirements management, requirements verification, integration and test, developing and refining CONOPS, system architecture, verification strategies and planning.

• Top Secret clearance.
• Experience presenting analytical and technical presentations.
• Experience using Agile development framework methods/processes.
• Experience with automation and/or digital engineering.
• Experience in the defense industry and specifically with military systems; tactics, techniques and procedures, as well as Department of Defense customer infrastructure experience.
• Experience evaluating and mitigating technical risks.
• Experience working with multi‑disciplinary technical and/or engineering teams.
• Experience in systems engineering on a missile program.
• Software or firmware verification and qualification testing experience.
• Prior experience with foreign military sales.
• Ability to perform trade studies to optimize system performance.
• Customer focus and collaboration skills.
• Experience with change control board (CCB), and document release experience (engineering and…