Sr Project Engineer

As a Senior Project Engineer you will lead complex engineering projects from inception to completion, ensuring technical excellence and timely delivery. You will mentor junior engineers, provide strategic direction, and interface with high‑level stakeholders to drive project success within the ISR, Aviation, and Security (IAS) business area, a leading integrator of manned and unmanned aircraft systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead Integrated Product Team (IPT) planning and execution for complex missile subsystem development and integration activities.
• Coordinate cross‑functional engineering efforts spanning seeker, datalink, flight computer, GNC, and HWIL teams to ensure synchronized development schedules.
• Drive alignment between subsystem roadmaps and overall system‑level development milestones.
• Oversee technical integration of key missile subsystems, ensuring interface compatibility and end‑to‑end functional performance.
• Review and validate subsystem engineering artifacts including ICDs, performance models, simulation results, and HWIL test plans.
• Provide technical leadership in resolving multi‑disciplinary issues related to seeker performance, datalink communication, flight computing, GNC modeling, and embedded software.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related field (higher‑level degree may substitute for experience).
• 12+ years of engineering experience with at least 4+ years in a leadership role.
• Advanced knowledge of engineering principles and practice.
• Experience working in multi‑disciplinary design and development teams.
• Comprehensive understanding of requirements management, system design, and integration.
• Demonstrated experience leading multi‑disciplinary integration efforts for missile or guided weapon systems.
• Hands‑on experience with subsystem‑level integration involving seeker sensors, datalinks, flight computers, or GNC algorithms.
• Working knowledge of hardware‑in‑the‑loop (HWIL) architectures, test planning, and test execution.
• Proven ability to lead technical teams through requirements decomposition, interface definition, and model/data validation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience serving as IPT lead or subsystem integration lead on complex aerospace or defense programs (6‑8 years relevant leadership/project management).
• Master’s degree preferred.
• Experience leading a multi‑disciplinary design and development team and communicating with program management and customers.
• Familiarity with preparation and development of project estimates, technical proposals, and program cost and schedule management.
• History of leading baseline definition and maturation in a complex development setting, including integrated trade studies and analysis of alternatives.
• Ability to read and interpret technical drawings, schematics, parts lists, specifications, instructions, and test procedures.
• Experience or certification in International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) standards.
• Experience with development, validation, and use of GNC models in MATLAB/Simulink or similar environments.
• Prior involvement in building or executing HWIL test environments for missile or aerospace systems.
• Familiarity with system‑level integration challenges associated with missile guidance, navigation, control, and end‑game performance.
• Background in seeker algorithms, sensor fusion, datalink performance analysis, or embedded flight computing architectures in the aerospace and defense industry.

Essential Functions

• Occasional travel to customer or field locations may be required.
• Ability to work primarily in an office or hybrid environment.
• Ability to lift up to 10 pounds occasionally.
• Prolonged periods of working on a computer with hand and finger dexterity.
• Capability to work in potentially hazardous environments when visiting project sites.

Pay

Estimated Starting Salary Range: $189,761.74 – $260,922.39. Compensation varies depending on factors such as key skills, relevant work experience, education, training, and certifications. The disclosed range may be adjusted for geographic differentials. SNC offers annual incentive pay based upon performance commensurate with the level of the position.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision plans.
• 401(k) with 150 % match up to 6 % of salary.
• Life insurance.
• Three weeks paid time off.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Additional generous benefit offerings.

Security Clearance

• Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret U.S. Security Clearance.
• U.S. citizenship required; non‑U.S. citizens may not be eligible to obtain a clearance.
• Background investigation includes factors such as allegiance, foreign influence, criminal conduct, security violations, and illegal drug use.