Lead Systems Engineer

About the role

The Staff Systems Engineer will lead a program on our Integrated Mission Solutions (IMS) team. They will provide technical leadership on one or more sustainment and modernization programs, impacting the product and mission directly.

Responsibilities

• Maintain technical ownership of a product/system, driving development and sustainment from concept to delivery.
• Lead an engineering team through full product lifecycle, including requirements analysis, design, prototyping, fabrication, verification testing and sell off.
• Break down tasking, coordinate the workload and assignments of a team, and drive execution of engineering tasks.
• Maintain a backlog of tasks and set team priorities in a manner consistent with the program development schedule.
• Act as the primary point of contact for team-related issues and provide regular progress updates, risks and blockers to senior management.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers in technical domains, engineering design principles and project execution best practices.
• Perform hands-on integration and testing of complex systems, including both hardware and software components in development and production environments.
• Generate and update system and sub-system level specifications, ensure verification traceability, develop test plans, perform analysis of test results and prepare comprehensive reports.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or Biomedical Engineering from an ABET accredited school with 12 years of relevant experience; Master’s with 10 Years; PhD with 8 Years.
• Experience in a leadership position, leading a project and/or team through the full program lifecycle, to include requirements analysis, design, trade studies, prototyping, fabrication, verification testing and sell off.
• History of effectively communicating complex technical concepts to project, program, and company management, other technical managers, and customers.
• Experience designing, integrating, troubleshooting and testing complex systems that include hardware and software.
• Experience with legacy system sustainment and modernization, including hardware redesign due to obsolescence.
• Experience with deriving system requirements and developing test plans and procedures.
• Experience with lab test equipment such as function generator, oscilloscope, multi-meter, spectrum analyzers, etc.
• Experience with Department of Defense programs.
• Must currently hold or be able to maintain a U.S Department of Defense (DoD) Secret level security clearance.

Qualifications

• Experience managing or working with program management on scope, schedule and budget.
• Experience with schematic development and circuit card design.
• Experience with MATLAB or equivalent programming/analysis languages.
• Experience working hands-on with EW, radar, laser or optical systems.
• Experience in performing aircraft functional test.