Senior Systems Engineer

General Dynamics Mission Systems • NJ-Florham Park, NJ

1d • Onsite

About The Position

As a Systems Engineer, you will lead a cross-functional hardware, software, and system design team responsible for the realization of complex systems. You’ll contribute to CONOPS, requirements definition, system modeling, performance analysis, design, integration, test, and verification of these systems.

Requirements

• Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, or a related Science, Engineering, Technology or Mathematics field.
• Also requires 8+ years of job-related experience, or a Master's degree plus 6 years of job-related experience.
• Department of Defense Secret security clearance is required at time of hire.
• Applicants selected will be subject to a U.S. Government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
• Due to the nature of work performed within our facilities, U.S. citizenship is required.
• Experience leading multi-disciplinary team to solve complex engineering problems from concept development through design and verification testing
• Experience defining system behavior and system structure
• Experience verifying and validating system models
• Experience with the design of complex systems and subsystems
• Understanding of Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and SysML modeling principles
• Experience with customer requirements analysis, developing system requirements, and defining allocations to lower levels (elements and components)
• Requirements traceability and breakdown from a test perspective.
• Assigning test methods and designing test cases and procedures based on lower level and customer requirements
• Developing test strategies and procedures based on customer requirements

Nice To Haves

• Agile experience preferred.
• Proven team leader with demonstated success leading the systems development life cycle
• Excellent communication skills to clearly align the team to program goals
• Strong presentation and communications skills with experience in the art of negotiation and the ability to meet challenging customer requirements with win-win solutions
• Creative thinker with demonstrated success leading the systems development life cycle
• Collaborative team player eager to provide technical leadership and position others for success
• Thorough knowledge of technology trends and willingness to champion new ideas and process improvements
• Commitment to ongoing professional development for yourself and others
• Proficiency in application of MBSE tools (i.e, MagicDraw and/or Cameo)

Responsibilities

• Lead a cross-functional hardware, software, and system design team responsible for the realization of complex systems.
• Contribute to CONOPS, requirements definition, system modeling, performance analysis, design, integration, test, and verification of these systems.
• Performs technical planning, cost and risk analyses, and supportability and effectiveness analyses for subsystems and system elements
• Performs detailed technical analyses for a system, subsystem or system elements

Benefits

• An exciting career path with opportunities for continuous learning and development.
• Research oriented work, alongside award winning teams developing practical solutions for our nation’s security
• Flexible schedules with every other Friday off work, if desired (9/80 schedule)
• Competitive benefits, including 401k matching, flex time off, paid parental leave, healthcare benefits, health & wellness programs, employee resource and social groups, and more
• See more at gdmissionsystems.com/careers/why-work-for-us/benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees