Do you champion systems thinking? Can you synthesize the multifaceted technical, financial, and contractual aspects of a program?
Our mission is to push the boundaries of the possible. We take pride in creating purposeful work and providing opportunities for growth. As a Systems Engineer, you will be responsible for delivering a full system solution. You will focus on meeting the demanding space, ground, and airborne optomechanical systems requirements guiding a small nimble team to project delivery.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
- The selected candidate will lead projects and provide the systems engineering of sensor systems, passive and active system elements, and interfacing systems that are part of a large complex data network environment with geographically distributed components
- Project lead will provide effective daily communication and collaboration with customers, system engineering team, software integration team, test engineers, production management, and supply chain management
- She/he will be responsible for leading system engineering practices to ensure the proper degree of engineering rigor is applied to all assigned tasks, especially documentation
- The systems engineer will actively lead program increment (PI) planning and foster agile engineering activities
- U.S. citizenship and the eligibility for security clearance.
Position Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical field and at least five (5) years of related experience or a Master’s degree and three (3) years of prior relevant experience preferred
- Experience designing and integrating sensor systems with a focus on imaging systems
- Ability to synthesize operational, technical, and customer requirements
- Experience with risk management and risk register protocol best practices
- Experience with UML/SysML, DoDAF
- Demonstrated experience in several of the following areas: system architecture design and development, requirements analysis, testing, and technical system documentation
- Comfortable working on multiple system development programs simultaneously
- Capable of performing systems engineering activities in support of agile teams
- Committed to adopting and adhering to best practices
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Effectively planning and prioritization tasking and communicating clearly regarding technical options and trade-offs
- Experience with technical documentation development
- Must be capable of performing high-quality work both independently and with a team in a fast-moving environment
- Operations Research Systems Analysis (ORSA) experience/training is highly desirable
- Model-based systems engineering experience a plus
- Experience writing and executing tests and/or Automated Testing beneficial
- Past Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) or Test-Driven Development (TDD) experience a strong plus