Mission Systems Survivability Architect

Position Responsibilities

• Leads mission systems architecture development
• Leads mission systems growth strategy roadmap
• Leads mission computing solution space development
• Oversight of technology readiness level (TRL) development and maturation plans
• Evaluates customer and operational needs to define and coordinate system performance requirements
• Provides interdisciplinary, collaborative approach to plan, design, develop, and verify lifecycle-balanced system of systems solutions
• Solves cross-functional technical issues
• Supports the design and integration of open architecture Mission Systems solutions; such as, Open Mission Systems (OMS), and Open Communication Standard (OCS)
• Collaborates with customers to ensure needs, requirements, and commitments are being met
• Analyzes supplier performance to ensure compliance with requirements
• Supports proposal efforts, including authoring portion of technical volume and providing estimates of required work to accomplish scope

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering (with a focus in Electrical, Mechanical or Aeronautical), Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry or non-US equivalent qualifications directly related to the work statement
• 10+ years of mission systems experience with a focus on integration of complex mission systems

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years’ engineering experience with aircraft platform mission systems
• 10+ years’ experience with developing, documenting and maintaining complex architecture, requirements, software-to-hardware interfaces, and designs for systems
• Experience in Level of Rigor (LOR) or Design Assurance Level (DAL) certification
• Experience developing system requirements, verification plans, functional decomposition / allocation, and interfaces
• Communication experience, both written and verbal, with comfort in public speaking and frequent interactions with external customers
• Experience with avionics integration and verification
• Experience working with multi-discipline engineering team
• Experience working with suppliers to ensure system integration and compliance with requirements
• Experience working with USAF or other DOD customers