Senior Systems Engineer

Senior Staff Systems Engineer

BCubed Engineering, an Auria company, is looking to hire a Senior Staff Systems Engineer to join the team. You will be responsible for delivering high-quality products that meet the requirements, constraints, and goals of our customers. You will apply advanced technical rigor to complex system architectures, managing tasks across the entire development cycle—including design, modeling, implementation, testing, integration, and deployment. At the Senior Staff level, you are expected to make a moderate-to-high organizational impact, managing complex systems tasks while serving as a respected mentor and advanced individual contributor.

For this role, we are seeking a qualified candidate to support the lifecycle management of our hardware platforms. This role is responsible for investigating hardware failures, driving root cause analysis, evaluating and dispositioning returned hardware, maintaining engineering documentation and CAD data, maintenance of development system HW baseline and operations, and partnering with vendors to ensure hardware quality and availability. The ideal candidate is hands-on, detail-oriented, and comfortable working across engineering, manufacturing, suppliers, and operations.

This is a hybrid role located in Warrenton, VA.

What You Can Expect To Do:

• Systems Engineering Excellence:
  Apply advanced problem-solving methodologies to the most complex problem sets, architecting and delivering solutions for entire systems and systems of systems.
• Technical Rigor & Acumen:
  Lead with engineering rigor, ensuring a strict commitment to testing, repeatable processes, comprehensive documentation, and reliable delivery across the entire development lifecycle.
• Customer & Partner Engagement:
  Act as a key technical point of contact to communicate and negotiate directly with external partners (sub-contractors, vendors, prime contractors) and external customers. Establish and maintain trusted partnerships with customer bases, negotiating through conflicts with transparency and integrity.
• Effective Technical Leadership:
  Lead the technical execution of projects and initiatives, ensuring engineering processes are upheld. Serve as a prominent, respected mentor across the organization to develop talent and elevate the contributions of your team members.
• End-User Focus:
  Design architectures and solutions that explicitly reflect the mission needs of the end-user, actively seeking out and embracing feedback with a growth mindset.
• Innovation & IR&D:
  Pursue and champion innovative technologies and processes. You will have direct access to internal IR&D budgets to back novel concepts by compiling standard quad-charts for approval from the President.
• Requirements & Verification:
  Author, trace, manage, and validate comprehensive system-level program requirements.
• Technical Milestones:
  Support the development and executive presentation of major engineering milestone reviews (e.g., SRR, PDR, CDR).
• Technical Artifacts:
  Generate and maintain critical engineering artifacts, including Interface Control Documents (ICDs), Capability Development Documents (CDDs), Engineering Drawings, system Bill of Materials (BOMs), etc.
• Configuration Management:
  Maintain development system HW baseline configuration and operations. Implement configuration changes to support verification requirements.
• Create and update hardware and other procedures, specifications, and work instructions. Create and maintain hardware CAD models, drawings, bills of materials (BOMs), and engineering documentation.
• HW Discrepancy Resolution:
  Evaluate, disposition, and document returned or suspect hardware. Perform hardware troubleshooting and root cause analysis on failed systems, assemblies, and components.
• Interface with hardware vendors and suppliers to resolve technical issues, qualify components, and support product changes.
• Trend and analyze hardware failures to identify recurring issues and drive corrective actions. Support engineering change orders (ECOs) and configuration management activities. HW Inventory and
• Lifecycle Planning:
  Support inventory reviews and recommend repair, reuse, or replacement strategies for hardware…