On-Site Lead Engineer for Systems Engineering, Integration, and Test

About the role

We are seeking a On-Site Lead Engineer for Systems Engineering, Integration and Test efforts for the Sentinel strategic missile system. This will be an on-site position, working at Hill AFB, Utah alongside other on-site APL personnel, our government sponsor, other government mission partners, and the Sentinel Prime Contractor.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a technical leader in APL’s forward-based team supporting the Sentinel program.
• Work directly with the sponsor to understand their needs, and collaborate with key APL technical leaders to recommend, support, and execute APL work in support of the Sentinel Program Office’s desire to “own the technical baseline.”
• Support and influence program-level decision making by developing and communicating technical positions, risk assessments, and trade-offs to senior government and program leadership.
• Lead and collaborate with other APL SMEs, both at Hill AFB and main campus, to provide unique analyses of the Sentinel Weapon System and recommendations from a systems-level viewpoint.
• Contribute to technical baseline definition, acquisition and systems engineering strategy development, program restructuring activities, and governance frameworks.
• Use APL-developed tools, processes, and methodologies, and Prime Contractor generated design artifacts, test data and analysis results to evaluate system fulfillment of stakeholder needs and government requirements.

Requirements

• Possess a bachelors in engineering, mathematics, physics or related technical field.
• Have 5+ years of technical professional experience including experience leading or influencing technical efforts across teams or organizations.
• Demonstrate technical and organizational thought leadership with a track record of influencing others across various organizations.
• Able to effectively shape the day-to-day tasking to meet sponsor needs, multi-task, and adapt to changing demands with minimal guidance.
• Employed exceptionally strong interpersonal, communication, and leadership skills, and the ability to regularly interface with senior military and civil service leaders.
• Have proven experience performing systems engineering in the design, development or evaluation of complex systems.
• Have experience using tools for tradespace analysis, performance analysis, requirements analysis, requirements management, and system architecting.
• Be literate in Systems Modeling Language (SysML).

Qualifications

• Have a graduate degree in aerospace engineering, systems engineering, or related technical field with 10+ years of technical experience applying systems engineering.
• Have experience in systems engineering for missile systems.
• Have experience with DoD acquisition processes and/or Air Force ICBM programs.
• Have experience with, and an understanding of Air Force strategic weapons systems including the Minuteman or Sentinel weapon systems.
• Currently hold an active Top Secret clearance (or above).