Agile Systems Engineering Department Head (FACULTY)
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"POSITION SPECIFICS Your working location will be fully on-site located in State College, PA. This role requires periodic travel to remote locations. We are searching for a Department Head for the Agile Systems Engineering Department (ASE) of the Materials, Manufacturing and Sustainment Office (MMSO) at the Applied Research Laboratory (ARL) at Penn State. The Agile Systems Engineering Department is dedicated to the application and training of systems engineering to support the advancement of warfighter capability at the speed of relevance. The department focuses on the rapid development of complex engineering systems requiring the integration of cross-disciplinary solutions and expertise, including system architecture design, functional analysis, requirements development, and model-based engineering. Additionally, the department has a lead role in workforce development and systems engineering training. This role will lead and manage all aspects of the Agile Systems Engineering Department, providing strategic direction, technical leadership, and operational oversight of a department of approximately 10 people. This leadership position requires a visionary leader capable of building and directing a multidisciplinary team focused on tailored application of systems engineering, model-based engineering, architecture development, and rapid, tailored systems integration. This position may be filled as either a Research and Development Engineer or a non-tenure Research Faculty. ARL is an authorized DoD SkillBridge partner and welcomes all transitioning military members to apply."
Then list of duties: "You will:" then bullet-like sentences.
Let's capture responsibilities:
- Lead and manage all aspects of the Agile Systems Engineering Department, providing strategic direction, technical leadership, and operational oversight, personnel management, workforce planning, talent development, and performance evaluation
- Build and direct a multidisciplinary team focused on the application of systems engineering to a diverse set of programs, technologies and sponsors
- Mentor systems engineers in applying systems engineering to a variety of complex engineering problems that span levels of technical maturity ranging from early science and technology to system acquisition
- Support division leadership in developing and maintaining relationships with sponsors in support of meeting funding objectives
- Lead individual research projects and portfolios including developing technical concepts, writing winning proposals, staffing projects, conducting research, managing budgets, and delivering high-quality results
- Foster partnerships with U.S. Military Program Offices, defense contractors, systems integrators, and other government laboratories
- Lead department personnel in developing and delivering training on systems engineering to ARL staff and external partners
- Foster a culture of innovation, technical excellence, and mission focus
Additional responsibilities for the higher-level position includes:
- Support development of a comprehensive roadmap for embedded systems and integration methodologies pertinent to systems of interest to the division including but not limited to missiles, hypersonics, and uncrewed aerial systems
- Establish and maintain partnerships with U.S. Military Program Offices, defense contractors, systems integrators, and other government laboratories
- Build strategic relationships with Defense Industrial Base stakeholders
- Collaborate across ARL departments and with external stakeholders as a trusted agent in identifying and applying appropriate systems engineering activities for large U.S. Military development programs
Now required skills/experience areas include:
- Leading individual research projects and portfolios including developing technical concepts, writing winning proposals, staffing the project, conducting the research, managing budgets, and delivering high-quality results
- Past success applying systems engineering techniques for complex system development, with emphasis on streamlined and/or tailored processes
- System architecture design, functional analysis, requirements development, system decomposition, and flow down of requirements
- System and interface architecture development and testing
- Evaluation of communications, messaging, and data architectures
- Developing logical and physical representative models of system requirements and architectures
- Developing time-varying physics-based models
- Model-based approaches to supplement traditional test & evaluation (T&E) methods for more complete and cost-effective verification & validation of system requirements
- systems engineering challenges in complex systems (e.g., maritime, aerospace, ground vehicles, unmanned systems)
- Past success in writing white papers or reports
- Active security clearance, at the Secret level or higher
Background checks/clearances: mention background check, eligibility for government security clearance, drug testing, monitoring, must be US citizen.
Qualifications: maybe education level? Not explicitly given except "Non-tenure faculty rank will be commensurate with education level and experience." Not specific.
We could treat "Qualifications" as maybe education level and experience? But we should not create placeholder. Since no explicit qualifications like degree, we might omit Qualifications section or combine with Requirements? The instruction: include a section ONLY when posting has real, specific content for it. So if we don't have explicit qualifications, we may omit.
Skills: we could list technical skills from required skills/experience.
Benefits: described: "Benefits Penn State provides a competitive benefits package for full-time employees designed to support both personal and professional wellbeing. In addition to comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, employees enjoy robust retirement plans. One of the standout benefits is the generous 75% tuition discount, available to employees as well as eligible spouses and children."
We should include Benefits section.
Pay: not mentioned, omit.
Schedule: not mentioned, omit.
Now About the role: we can summarize location, department description, role purpose. Use prose.
Let's craft About the role paragraph: combine location, department mission, role purpose.
Now Responsibilities: list as
- each duty.
Requirements: maybe required skills/experience areas (the list). Could be Requirements.
Qualifications: maybe citizenship, clearance, background check. Could be Qualifications.
Skills: maybe the technical skills list (system architecture design, etc.) but that overlaps with requirements. Might be better to split: Requirements = leadership/experience; Skills = technical skills; Qualifications = citizenship/clearance.
Let's decide.
We have required skills/experience areas list includes both leadership and technical. Could separate.
But we need to avoid duplication. We'll try to allocate:
- Requirements: leadership experience (leading research projects, past success applying systems engineering techniques, etc.) plus maybe education level? Not given.
- Skills: technical skills (system architecture design, functional analysis, requirements development, system decomposition, flow down, system and interface architecture development and testing, evaluation of communications, messaging, data architectures, developing logical/physical models, developing time-varying physics-based models, model-based approaches to supplement T&E, systems engineering challenges in complex systems, past success writing white papers/reports).
- Qualifications: active security clearance (Secret or higher), US citizen, eligibility for government security clearance, background check, drug testing, monitoring.
But note that "Active security clearance, at the Secret level or higher" appears in required skills/experience areas list. So we could put that in Qualifications.
Also "You must be a U.S. citizen to apply." That's qualification.
Background check etc.
Now Benefits: as described.
Now we need to ensure we don't include boilerplate like "Notice regarding employment at the Applied Research Laboratory (ARL): Employees must be eligible to obtain a government security clearance, participate in the ARL drug testing program, and comply with electronic and physical monitoring requirements applicable to federal contractors." That's part of qualifications.
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About the role
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Responsibilities
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Requirements
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Skills
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Qualifications
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Benefits
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We need to ensure no empty sections.
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About the role paragraph:
"The Agile Systems Engineering Department (ASE) within the Materials, Manufacturing and Sustainment Office (MMSO) at Penn State’s Applied Research Laboratory (ARL) focuses on the rapid development of complex engineering systems through the application and training of systems engineering. The department supports warfighter capability by integrating cross‑disciplinary expertise in system architecture design, functional analysis, requirements development, and model‑based engineering, and leads workforce development and systems engineering training. This full‑time, on‑site position in State College, PA (with periodic travel to remote locations) leads a team of approximately 10 people, providing strategic direction, technical leadership, and operational oversight for the department. The role may be filled as a Research and Development Engineer or a non‑tenure Research Faculty member."
That seems good.
Now Responsibilities list: combine the "You will:" bullets and additional responsibilities.
Let's list each as separate - .
We need to ensure we capture all.
From "You will:":
- Lead and manage all aspects of the Agile Systems Engineering Department, providing strategic direction, technical leadership, and operational oversight, personnel management, workforce planning, talent development, and performance evaluation
- Build and direct a multidisciplinary team focused on the application of systems engineering to a diverse set of programs, technologies and sponsors
- Mentor systems engineers in applying systems engineering to a variety of complex engineering problems that span levels of technical maturity ranging from early science and technology to system acquisition
- Support division leadership in developing and maintaining relationships with sponsors in support of meeting funding objectives
- Lead individual research projects and portfolios including developing technical concepts, writing winning proposals, staffing projects, conducting research, managing budgets, and delivering high-quality results
- Foster partnerships with U.S. Military Program Offices, defense contractors, systems integrators, and other government laboratories
- Lead department personnel in developing and delivering training on systems engineering to ARL staff and external partners
- Foster a culture of innovation, technical excellence, and mission focus
Additional responsibilities:
- Support development of a comprehensive roadmap for embedded systems and integration methodologies pertinent to systems of interest to the division including but not limited to missiles, hypersonics, and uncrewed aerial systems
- Establish and maintain partnerships with U.S. Military Program Offices, defense contractors, systems integrators, and other government laboratories
- Build strategic relationships with Defense Industrial Base stakeholders
- Collaborate across ARL departments and with external stakeholders as a trusted agent in identifying and applying appropriate systems engineering activities for large U.S. Military development programs
Note some duplicates: fostering partnerships appears twice; we can keep both but maybe combine? Better to keep as separate but could be duplicate. We'll keep both but maybe note it's similar. However we should not invent or summarize away detail; we can keep both as separate items even if similar.
Now Requirements list: leadership experience items.
From required skills/experience areas list, we can separate leadership/experience:
- Leading individual research projects and portfolios including developing technical concepts, writing winning proposals, staffing the project, conducting the research, managing budgets, and delivering high-quality results
- Past success applying systems engineering techniques for complex system development, with emphasis on streamlined and/or tailored processes
Maybe also "Past success in writing white papers or reports" could be requirement but it's more skill. We'll put in Skills.
Now Skills list: technical skills.
- System architecture design, functional analysis, requirements development, system decomposition, and flow down of requirements
- System and interface architecture development
for prose. We need to output only HTML fragment. Let's extract content. From posting: "POSITION SPECIFICS Your working location will be fully on-site located in State College, PA. This role requires periodic travel to remote locations. We are searching for a Department Head for the Agile Systems Engineering Department (ASE) of the Materials, Manufacturing and Sustainment Office (MMSO) at the Applied Research Laboratory (ARL) at Penn State. The Agile Systems Engineering Department is dedicated to the application and training of systems engineering to support the advancement of warfighter capability at the speed of relevance. The department focuses on the rapid development of complex engineering systems requiring the integration of cross-disciplinary solutions and expertise, including system architecture design, functional analysis, requirements development, and model-based engineering. Additionally, the department has a lead role in workforce development and systems engineering training. This role will lead and manage all aspects of the Agile Systems Engineering Department, providing strategic direction, technical leadership, and operational oversight of a department of approximately 10 people. This leadership position requires a visionary leader capable of building and directing a multidisciplinary team focused on tailored application of systems engineering, model-based engineering, architecture development, and rapid, tailored systems integration. This position may be filled as either a Research and Development Engineer or a non-tenure Research Faculty. ARL is an authorized DoD SkillBridge partner and welcomes all transitioning military members to apply." Then list of duties: "You will:" then bullet-like sentences. Let's capture responsibilities: - Lead and manage all aspects of the Agile Systems Engineering Department, providing strategic direction, technical leadership, and operational oversight, personnel management, workforce planning, talent development, and performance evaluation - Build and direct a multidisciplinary team focused on the application of systems engineering to a diverse set of programs, technologies and sponsors - Mentor systems engineers in applying systems engineering to a variety of complex engineering problems that span levels of technical maturity ranging from early science and technology to system acquisition - Support division leadership in developing and maintaining relationships with sponsors in support of meeting funding objectives - Lead individual research projects and portfolios including developing technical concepts, writing winning proposals, staffing projects, conducting research, managing budgets, and delivering high-quality results - Foster partnerships with U.S. Military Program Offices, defense contractors, systems integrators, and other government laboratories - Lead department personnel in developing and delivering training on systems engineering to ARL staff and external partners - Foster a culture of innovation, technical excellence, and mission focus Additional responsibilities for the higher-level position includes: - Support development of a comprehensive roadmap for embedded systems and integration methodologies pertinent to systems of interest to the division including but not limited to missiles, hypersonics, and uncrewed aerial systems - Establish and maintain partnerships with U.S. Military Program Offices, defense contractors, systems integrators, and other government laboratories - Build strategic relationships with Defense Industrial Base stakeholders - Collaborate across ARL departments and with external stakeholders as a trusted agent in identifying and applying appropriate systems engineering activities for large U.S. Military development programs Now required skills/experience areas include: - Leading individual research projects and portfolios including developing technical concepts, writing winning proposals, staffing the project, conducting the research, managing budgets, and delivering high-quality results - Past success applying systems engineering techniques for complex system development, with emphasis on streamlined and/or tailored processes - System architecture design, functional analysis, requirements development, system decomposition, and flow down of requirements - System and interface architecture development and testing - Evaluation of communications, messaging, and data architectures - Developing logical and physical representative models of system requirements and architectures - Developing time-varying physics-based models - Model-based approaches to supplement traditional test & evaluation (T&E) methods for more complete and cost-effective verification & validation of system requirements - systems engineering challenges in complex systems (e.g., maritime, aerospace, ground vehicles, unmanned systems) - Past success in writing white papers or reports - Active security clearance, at the Secret level or higher Background checks/clearances: mention background check, eligibility for government security clearance, drug testing, monitoring, must be US citizen. Qualifications: maybe education level? Not explicitly given except "Non-tenure faculty rank will be commensurate with education level and experience." Not specific. We could treat "Qualifications" as maybe education level and experience? But we should not create placeholder. Since no explicit qualifications like degree, we might omit Qualifications section or combine with Requirements? The instruction: include a section ONLY when posting has real, specific content for it. So if we don't have explicit qualifications, we may omit. Skills: we could list technical skills from required skills/experience. Benefits: described: "Benefits Penn State provides a competitive benefits package for full-time employees designed to support both personal and professional wellbeing. In addition to comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, employees enjoy robust retirement plans. One of the standout benefits is the generous 75% tuition discount, available to employees as well as eligible spouses and children." We should include Benefits section. Pay: not mentioned, omit. Schedule: not mentioned, omit. Now About the role: we can summarize location, department description, role purpose. Use prose. Let's craft About the role paragraph: combine location, department mission, role purpose. Now Responsibilities: list as
- each duty.
Requirements: maybe required skills/experience areas (the list). Could be Requirements.
Qualifications: maybe citizenship, clearance, background check. Could be Qualifications.
Skills: maybe the technical skills list (system architecture design, etc.) but that overlaps with requirements. Might be better to split: Requirements = leadership/experience; Skills = technical skills; Qualifications = citizenship/clearance.
Let's decide.
We have required skills/experience areas list includes both leadership and technical. Could separate.
But we need to avoid duplication. We'll try to allocate:
- Requirements: leadership experience (leading research projects, past success applying systems engineering techniques, etc.) plus maybe education level? Not given.
- Skills: technical skills (system architecture design, functional analysis, requirements development, system decomposition, flow down, system and interface architecture development and testing, evaluation of communications, messaging, data architectures, developing logical/physical models, developing time-varying physics-based models, model-based approaches to supplement T&E, systems engineering challenges in complex systems, past success writing white papers/reports).
- Qualifications: active security clearance (Secret or higher), US citizen, eligibility for government security clearance, background check, drug testing, monitoring.
But note that "Active security clearance, at the Secret level or higher" appears in required skills/experience areas list. So we could put that in Qualifications.
Also "You must be a U.S. citizen to apply." That's qualification.
Background check etc.
Now Benefits: as described.
Now we need to ensure we don't include boilerplate like "Notice regarding employment at the Applied Research Laboratory (ARL): Employees must be eligible to obtain a government security clearance, participate in the ARL drug testing program, and comply with electronic and physical monitoring requirements applicable to federal contractors." That's part of qualifications.
Now we need to output HTML.
Let's construct.
About the role
...
Responsibilities
- ... ...
Requirements
- ... ...
Skills
- ... ...
Qualifications
- ... ...
Benefits
...
We need to ensure no empty sections. Now let's write content. About the role paragraph: "The Agile Systems Engineering Department (ASE) within the Materials, Manufacturing and Sustainment Office (MMSO) at Penn State’s Applied Research Laboratory (ARL) focuses on the rapid development of complex engineering systems through the application and training of systems engineering. The department supports warfighter capability by integrating cross‑disciplinary expertise in system architecture design, functional analysis, requirements development, and model‑based engineering, and leads workforce development and systems engineering training. This full‑time, on‑site position in State College, PA (with periodic travel to remote locations) leads a team of approximately 10 people, providing strategic direction, technical leadership, and operational oversight for the department. The role may be filled as a Research and Development Engineer or a non‑tenure Research Faculty member." That seems good. Now Responsibilities list: combine the "You will:" bullets and additional responsibilities. Let's list each as separate - . We need to ensure we capture all. From "You will:": - Lead and manage all aspects of the Agile Systems Engineering Department, providing strategic direction, technical leadership, and operational oversight, personnel management, workforce planning, talent development, and performance evaluation - Build and direct a multidisciplinary team focused on the application of systems engineering to a diverse set of programs, technologies and sponsors - Mentor systems engineers in applying systems engineering to a variety of complex engineering problems that span levels of technical maturity ranging from early science and technology to system acquisition - Support division leadership in developing and maintaining relationships with sponsors in support of meeting funding objectives - Lead individual research projects and portfolios including developing technical concepts, writing winning proposals, staffing projects, conducting research, managing budgets, and delivering high-quality results - Foster partnerships with U.S. Military Program Offices, defense contractors, systems integrators, and other government laboratories - Lead department personnel in developing and delivering training on systems engineering to ARL staff and external partners - Foster a culture of innovation, technical excellence, and mission focus Additional responsibilities: - Support development of a comprehensive roadmap for embedded systems and integration methodologies pertinent to systems of interest to the division including but not limited to missiles, hypersonics, and uncrewed aerial systems - Establish and maintain partnerships with U.S. Military Program Offices, defense contractors, systems integrators, and other government laboratories - Build strategic relationships with Defense Industrial Base stakeholders - Collaborate across ARL departments and with external stakeholders as a trusted agent in identifying and applying appropriate systems engineering activities for large U.S. Military development programs Note some duplicates: fostering partnerships appears twice; we can keep both but maybe combine? Better to keep as separate but could be duplicate. We'll keep both but maybe note it's similar. However we should not invent or summarize away detail; we can keep both as separate items even if similar. Now Requirements list: leadership experience items. From required skills/experience areas list, we can separate leadership/experience: - Leading individual research projects and portfolios including developing technical concepts, writing winning proposals, staffing the project, conducting the research, managing budgets, and delivering high-quality results - Past success applying systems engineering techniques for complex system development, with emphasis on streamlined and/or tailored processes Maybe also "Past success in writing white papers or reports" could be requirement but it's more skill. We'll put in Skills. Now Skills list: technical skills. - System architecture design, functional analysis, requirements development, system decomposition, and flow down of requirements - System and interface architecture development