Systems Engineer - ELSYS - (Open Rank)

Key Responsibilities

• Facilitate product or system requirements gathering and analysis with sponsors and other key stakeholders
• Verify systems engineering product life-cycle components to include definitions, requirements analysis, synthesis, systems analysis and implementation
• Conduct product or system design synthesis translating requirements into physical architectures for systems of moderate complexity to include defining and refining internal and external interfaces
• Develop and contribute to technical reports and diagrams detailing product or system attributes
• Analyze product or system functionality as defined by requirements

Additional Responsibilities

• Manage all technical aspects of product or system design including directing multiple lab resources for large scale product or system deployments
• Manage sub-contractor resources supporting all system engineering areas (definition, requirements analysis, synthesis, systems analysis and implementation)
• Conduct product or system design synthesis translating requirements into physical architectures for systems of high complexity to include defining and refining internal and external interfaces
• Develop technical reports and diagrams detailing product or system attributes
• Validate security control configurations on systems and ensure all systems are configured with proper controls, such as STIGS, CMMC, and other similar requirements
• Collaborate with sponsors and external teams to derive tasks from detailed requirements, and provide tasking to other team members based off of the derived tasks
• Lead the development and composition of new/updated open architectures and standards
• Lead technical meetings with GTRI and sponsor personnel, and support issue tracking and hardware development planning
• Lead proposal efforts or new research areas suitable for internal research and development (IR&D) funding
• Lead teams of electrical, mechanical, and software/firmware researchers in support of sponsored research efforts

Required Minimum Qualifications

• Experience with the definition and utilization of open architectures and standards such as OpenVPX, SOSA, HOST, OMS/UCI, Big Iron, AMS GRA, UC2, NIEM, OCI, etc.
• Experience developing hardware/software/firmware for embedded environments, including but not limited to FPGA designs, analog/digital circuits, or other embedded hardware
• Familiarity with computer architectures as it relates to embedded hardware and communications standards (e.g., Ethernet, PCI Express)
• Familiarity with Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and the utilization of SysML to execute the Systems Engineering ‘V’

Preferred Qualifications

• Active Secret Clearance
• Experience architecting/developing mission systems and/or safety-critical systems
• Experience with full system lifecycle development from requirements definition to verification and validation within an MBSE environment
• Experience architecting/developing reference architectures with an MBSE environment
• Experience architecting/developing containerized software systems
• Experience architecting/developing RF and EO/IR sensor systems
• Knowledge of avionics protocols and interfaces, including but not limited to ARINC- and VITA-standard protocols, high-speed serial, discrete signal, MIL-STD-1553 and analog interfaces