Systems Engineer

About the role

Provide system engineering support to review, update, and maintain the drawing packages of existing systems, as well as direct the review of drawings and configurations for the VLS program. Serve as a Systems Engineer supporting various Vertical Launching System (VLS) projects.

Responsibilities

• Utilize Model Based System Engineering (MBSE) and tools that support MBSE in the performance of system engineering activities.
• Maintain the Vertical Launching System (VLS) software system interface documents.
• Apply appropriate standards, processes, procedures, and tools throughout the development life cycle.
• Manage task schedules and deadlines for VLS system engineering services across multiple baselines, customers, and external systems.

Requirements

• Three (3) years’ experience with a bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in System Engineering, or seven (7) years of hands-on Combat System Engineering experience.
• Provide technical support for Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) meetings, working groups, peer reviews, technical interchange meetings, and periodic system status coordination meetings.
• Support the review of open issues, prepare material for discussion, actively participate in reviews, generate review reports highlighting potential problems and resolutions, issue/comment resolution, and track resolutions through to final approval.
• Support the development of requirements for currently undefined emerging technology requirements and continuously evaluate and refine new and existing system-level requirements.
• Analyze and evaluate emergent problems, updates, and enhancements to determine the impact on the combat and weapon system interface changes to include new and emergent technologies and participate in technology refresh planning.
• Effective communication skills, both written and oral.
• Ability to work independently and with others, across multiple organizations, to meet established goals within schedule-driven timelines.
• Active Secret security clearance.

Qualifications

• Experience with weapon and combat systems, and/or launcher systems.
• Knowledge of Vertical Launching System and design (VLS) is beneficial.
• Experience reviewing and developing software system interface documents or interface control documents.
• Experience with requirement generation.
• Familiarity with Configuration Management processes.

Pay

The anticipated salary range for this position is $90,000 to $100,000.