Sr. Principal Systems Engineer, Weapon System Integration - Product Owner

Working across the globe, V2X builds smart solutions designed to integrate physical and digital infrastructure from base to battlefield. We bring 120 years of successful mission support to improve security, streamline logistics, and enhance readiness. Aligned around a shared purpose, our $3.9B company and 16,000 people work alongside clients to tackle their most complex challenges with integrity, respect, responsibility, and professionalism.

This role supports programs in next-generation avionics and weapon system integration at our Indianapolis facility, which serves multiple DoD customers across diverse product lines.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical and programmatic leadership throughout the development life cycle, from concept development, requirements definition, functional analysis, design review support, system implementation, integration, verification, and validation.
• Work within a cross-functional Integrated Product Team (IPT), leveraging strong communication and team-building skills.
• Lead all systems engineering tasks and cross-product activities across the program, including planning, executing, and leading integration, verification, and validation tasks.
• Take ownership of the engineering scope within the program and drive necessary tasks to ensure the cross-functional team meets technical requirements.
• Develop technical baselines (requirements/architecture), lead development teams, and review Engineering Change Requests.
• Lead Trade Studies, perform Risk and Opportunity analyses, and track and mitigate risks.
• Communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders, including leading internal and customer design reviews.
• Develop system verification test plans, procedures, and reports.
• Mentor engineers of all grade levels.

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain a DoD Secret Clearance.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or related STEM discipline.
• At least fifteen (15) years of related engineering experience in systems, software, or hardware engineering.
• Experience providing leadership, technical direction, and guidance to large multi-discipline teams.
• In-depth understanding of the System Engineering Lifecycle and processes.

Skills

• Desired: Experience with Agile software development, including roles as a Product Owner and/or Scrum Master.
• Familiarity with UI/UX principles and user-centered design.
• Experience with failure investigation processes and driving findings to closure.
• Familiarity with tools like Azure DevOps, Jira, or other product management tools.
• Experience supporting integration of weapon systems on airborne and ground platforms.
• Experience with the design, development, and integration of UAI Mission Stores, Type I and Type II Carriage Systems.
• Knowledge and experience working with UAI interface standards such as: MIL-STD-1553 EBR, MIL-STD-1760, and JMMI.
• Direct experience working with government customers including the US Army, US Navy, USMC, and/or USAF.
• Experience working the front end of the business, creating/reviewing RFPs, SOWs, BOEs, technical volumes, proposals, cost, and schedule estimates.
• Project management experience including cost, schedule, supplier management, risk, and opportunity assessment.