Senior Systems Engineer- Development

Responsibilities

• Contribute to system requirements definition and management for a product
• Ensure Key Performance Parameters, as derived through mission modeling and operational analysis, are properly flowed to system requirements
• Act as an interface with either existing or prospective customers to prove that customer requirements/needs are fully satisfied by system requirements
• Cook up key requirements with subsystem design teams, ensuring requirement flow-down to hardware and software subsystems is captured and properly traced
• Collaborate with design engineering to ensure system architecture is properly captured in MBSE diagrams (to include Structural and Behavioral Diagrams)
• Work with business development to create architectures for new solutions and applications in proposals
• Maintain architectural definition throughout the development process to ensure team alignment
• Develop interface control documentation and own interface management between hardware/software/firmware subsystems
• Perform trade studies and quick-turn impact analyses to facilitate agile hardware/software/firmware development
• Analyze to prove that system requirements are addressed by the system design
• Ensure best practices for configuration management are adhered to
• Facilitate multi-disciplinary coordination across teams
• Participate in IV&V planning and preparation
• Contribute technical writing and figures to proposals and other business development efforts

Requirements

• BS or MS degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Aerospace, or a similar field
• Minimum 5 years industry experience (or minimum 3 years of experience with an MS degree), preferably with experience spanning the entire product lifecycle (Concept to Delivery)
• Demonstrated experience contributing to the establishment of a technical baseline of a system/product
• Experience working with Systems Engineering tools for Requirements Management and Product Lifecycle Management (e.g. JAMA, Polarion, DOORS)
• Experience working with MBSE (e.g. SparxEA, Capella)
• Experience with Python development or other similar object-oriented languages
• Experience working with Git/GitHub, or similar version control systems
• Experience working with RF systems (e.g. radar, comms, EW, etc.), preferably including phased arrays
• Good written and oral communication skills; not afraid to speak up, either to ask for help or disagree on a technical point that warrants more discussion
• Collaborative; capable of working across all levels of the organization
• Able to anticipate and communicate blockers, delays, and cost ballooning within the project before they require escalation
• Organized, comfortable working in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment
• Focused, with perspective on what matters most, rapidly delivering customer value