Senior Systems Engineer T&V Facilitator

ARES Corporation•Houston, TX

About The Position

The Senior Systems Engineer T&V Facilitator serves as an enterprise-level technical authority for systems engineering, integration, test, and verification activities. The role provides real-time insight into vehicle production progress and acts as an on-floor liaison among stakeholders, production integrators, floor supervisors, engineering, vehicle management, and program offices. It identifies and addresses issues and risks across the verification and validation lifecycle, coaches teams, and helps shape technical strategy and execution. The position leads mission-level architecture trade studies and analysis, establishes requirements and verification strategies across projects, and defines system test and verification approaches aligned with program objectives. It also provides independent technical insight to program leadership, maintains strategic relationships with executives, customers, and partners, and leads cross-organizational initiatives and improvements to advance systems engineering and integration verification capabilities. Work may include supporting assembly-floor activities on first and second shifts, travel to other installations, and schedule adjustments during peak periods or surge requirements.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering from an accredited institution.
Fifteen or more years of systems engineering experience, with recognized authority across multiple domains.
Subject matter authority in systems engineering processes, including requirements, architecture, design, integration, and V&V of complex systems.
Exceptional communication skills and the ability to influence executive-level engineering decisions and articulate technical differentiation to customers and business development organizations.
Experience mentoring and developing L3 and L4 engineers at a coaching and capability-building level.
Demonstrated leadership of multidisciplinary teams and cross-program initiatives, including technical direction, partnerships, toolset decisions, and capability investments.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office and strong familiarity with enterprise engineering toolsets.
Must be a U.S. citizen and successfully complete a U.S. government background investigation.
Must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information if subject to a government security investigation.
Ability to work outside the normal schedule and adjust schedules during peak periods and surge requirements.
Ability to work in a team atmosphere and maintain professional behavior that supports productivity, teamwork, and cooperation.
Regular attendance in accordance with the established work schedule.
Must meet grooming and dress expectations that do not create a safety risk or hazard.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting Human Space Exploration programs at the enterprise verification and integration level.
Familiarity with NASA, DoD, and aerospace lifecycle and review processes, including engagement at executive and chief engineer levels.
Experience driving adoption of Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), SysML 2.0, and digital engineering methodologies across programs.
Demonstrated leadership in architecture, development, and integration of complex hardware and software systems.
Experience guiding the design, assembly, verification, testing, and operation of space hardware, with recognized institutional knowledge in flight hardware development.
Expertise in concept development, CONOPS, architecture definition, and V&V strategy at the organizational scale.
Deep understanding of space system certification processes and experience shaping certification strategies.
Familiarity with Design for Sustainment and the ability to influence long-term sustainment-focused engineering decisions.
Experience with flight hardware lifecycle, certification, and engineering processes, including mentoring others in navigating them.
Working knowledge of spaceflight standards, including safety, fault tolerance, and specialized engineering disciplines.
Strong foundational knowledge of mechanical and electrical systems, design documentation, materials, and engineering toolsets, with the ability to mentor others across disciplines.
Familiarity with spaceflight documentation systems, SharePoint environments, and typical systems engineering software products.
INCOSE CSEP certification or equivalent.
Master’s degree in systems engineering or a related discipline.

Responsibilities

Provide real-time daily insight into production activities and progress for each vehicle.
Lead enterprise-level planning, development, review, and maintenance of requirements and verifications, establishing approaches that influence multiple programs.
Serve as an on-floor liaison, communicating status, schedules, issues, and other assembly-floor information to stakeholders while overseeing first- and second-shift production integrators and floor supervisors.
Engage with vendor production integrators.
Identify issues across the V&V lifecycle that impede program strategy for production assembly, test, and verification activities.
Anticipate and identify technical, programmatic, and organizational risks; develop strategic risk frameworks; and coach and mentor teams in technical strategy and execution.
Engage engineering, vehicle managers, and program offices to drive technical discussion, integration, and responsiveness.
Lead mission-level architecture trade studies and analyses that influence system verification design across hardware, software, and operations.
Define and oversee requirements strategies, flow-down methodologies, and verifications across multiple projects.
Provide independent technical insight to program leadership, resolve complex issues, and shape long-term technical direction.
Maintain strategic relationships with executives, commercial customers, and partner organizations, and identify capability gaps.
Define system test and verification philosophies and strategies across efforts, aligned with program-level V&V objectives.
Identify enterprise-wide capability needs and lead cross-organizational initiatives, process improvements, and investments.
Perform additional assignments that build institutional knowledge and advance SE&I verification capabilities.