Principal Systems Engineer

Job Responsibilities

• Drive technology and completion of activity on time and budget
• Design, develop, analyze, document and support testing of products, systems or subsystems
• Ability to complete a technical project independently and mentor and coach other engineers
• Review customer specifications and requirements, and develop designs to best support them, including cost as a key design variable
• Provide budget, cost and schedule input for design assignments
• Document component and subsystem specifications and material requirements
• Analyze designs as necessary
• Specify and evaluate supplier components, subsystems and services
• Support the program design to cost and design for manufacture requirements
• Develop prototypes to retire key development risks
• Communicate clearly (written and oral) with manufacturing, supply chain, program management and the customer as required
• Participates heavily in preparation of the more complex and significant proposals
• Provides technical expertise and assistance to other engineers and support personnel
• Interact with technical management, other professionals, technicians and support personnel to coordinate, recommend and confer regarding technical activities and progress
• Mentor and coach less experienced engineers
• Involved with the analysis, design, development and implementation of new and/or existing systems/sub-systems

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related technical field or equivalent experience and a minimum of 8 years of integration engineering experience on a development contract including systems/hardware integration and troubleshooting
• DOD Secret clearance or ability to obtain a clearance
• Cum competent technical expertise and application domain knowledge
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a collaborative team
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to independently execute work tasks in a rapidly changing, fast-paced environment
• Strong written, communication, and presentation skills
• Experience supporting DoD customers and processes

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience or familiarity with various analytical and decision aid tools (e.g. Cameo, MatLab, STK, etc.)
• Experience with the DoD architectural framework and design guidance for radar systems and systems engineering processes
• Ability to effectively collaborate with industry and academic partners
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, ability to effectively communicate to senior leadership within the company, customer and academic communities
• Prior experience integrating complex hardware/software systems
• Prior experience operating radar systems
• Strong analysis skills and abilities

Pay

The expected pay scale for this position is $130,801 - $176,581.00/year.