Sr Staff Engineer Systems
About The Position
The Sr Staff Engineer Systems performs technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, cost and risk, and supportability and effectiveness analyses for total systems. Work spans all levels of a system product lifecycle, including concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, maintenance, and disposal. The role translates customer or product requirements into systems solutions that account for technical, schedule, and cost constraints, and performs functional and timeline analyses, trade studies, requirements allocation, and interface definition to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications. The position leads and manages a Systems Engineering and Integration team across multiple technical disciplines, and oversees execution against the program's cost, schedule, and technical baseline. It involves extensive coordination with program management, customer counterparts, and subcontractors, as well as leadership of requirements definition and verification, milestone reviews, risk and opportunity management, and proposal and baseline planning. The role also supports agile capability insertion, efficient integration, and consistent requirements and verification processes. Relocation assistance may be available. The position requires an active Secret or higher government clearance and travel of 10% of the time.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in a STEM field and at least 14 years of professional or military experience; or a master's degree in a STEM field and at least 12 years of relevant professional or military experience; or a Ph.D. and at least 10 years of relevant professional or military experience.
- Previous experience leading milestone reviews, such as SRR, PDR, CDR, or FCA.
- Previous experience managing technical baselines, including functional and allocated baselines.
- Experience with requirements verification and validation.
- Experience leading a team of 10 or more individuals in a technical environment.
- Active government Secret or higher clearance, with a background investigation completed within the last six years or current enrollment in Continuous Evaluation.
- U.S. citizenship is required for positions requiring a government clearance.
Nice To Haves
- Familiarity with Software Defined Radio (SDR) technology and architecture.
- Knowledge of digital communications and/or electronic warfare.
- Understanding of hardware and software development lifecycles.
- Experience mentoring and training.
- Skills in RF, DSP, radio technologies, digital communications, analog communications, hardware, or software.
- Experience reviewing engineering work products and serving as a process owner for milestone reviews.
- Experience serving as a technical risk advisor to a Program Manager.
Responsibilities
- Manage and lead a team of Systems Engineering and Integration engineers and managers across IFC, R&V, Architecture, Integration, Specialty, Mission Engineering, and Integrated Functional Capability disciplines.
- Manage and oversee Systems Engineering execution of the overall cost, schedule, and technical baseline for the program.
- Coordinate extensively with program management, customer counterparts, and subcontractors.
- Lead and oversee milestone reviews, including SRR, SFR, PDR, CDR, and FCA.
- Lead requirements definition, decomposition, allocation, and final verification across a complex system.
- Lead a multidisciplinary team in translating customer CONOPs, performance specifications, and use cases or OpsCon scenarios into verifiable requirements at the system and segment levels.
- Perform risk and opportunity management.
- Lead and prepare proposals and baseline planning for new activities.
- Use agile methodologies to enable rapid capability insertion and reduce time to field.
- Implement tools, technologies, and procedures to enable more efficient integration.
- Tailor requirements and verification processes to the size, scope, and complexity of each program.
- Define and maintain standard requirements and verification products and processes, ensuring appropriate use across programs.
- Use the Integrated Functional Capability (IFC) planning and certification process.
- Use Defect Management, Defect Review Board (DRB), and Content Inclusion Review Board (CIRB) processes to maintain the system technical baseline.
- Oversee implementation of below-segment-level requirements, including subsystem, element, or unit hardware and software, within other IPTs.
- Present program status effectively to internal executive management and customers.
Benefits
- Health insurance coverage
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- Savings plan
- Company-paid holidays
- Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
- Potential eligibility for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus, depending on the position
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
