Systems Engineer - Missile Systems Mission Planning
About The Position
The Decision Advantage Business Area within Leidos’ Defense organization is seeking a Systems Engineer to support its NAVAIR customer in Alexandria, Virginia; California, Maryland; or Virginia Beach, Virginia. The role supports acquisition, design, testing, and operations through systems engineering, systems analysis, and software development activities. The engineer will help transition requirements to support prototype mission planning, shape operational mission-planning and strike-planning algorithms and architecture, and support implementation, testing, quality control, documentation, and integration into tactical mission-planning tools. The position requires willingness and ability to travel up to 25%.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
- Active and current Top Secret clearance, with the ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI.
- Willingness and ability to travel up to 25%.
- Demonstrated initiative and strong ownership of deliverables.
- Demonstrated experience leading working groups.
- Comfort speaking to groups.
- Strong writing skills.
- Model-Based Systems Engineering experience.
- SAFe Agile experience.
- Experience with integrated development tools such as DOORS, JAMA, Jira, or Magic Draw.
Nice To Haves
- Five or more years of experience conducting engineering analysis, modeling, and simulation.
- Four or more years of experience working in the defense and/or intelligence industry.
- TS/SCI clearance.
- Experience with the TLAM weapon system or other weapon systems.
- Experience with imagery-based mission-planning navigation products.
Responsibilities
- Transition current requirements to support prototype mission-planning requirements.
- Collaborate with government personnel and teams to define algorithms and architecture for operational mission planning and strike planning.
- Facilitate algorithm design, software implementation and testing, quality control, documentation, and integration into tactical mission-planning tools.
- Provide engineering design and analysis assessments.
- Validate system and customer requirements.
- Draft system specifications.
- Develop roadmaps and release plans.
- Support formal software and system milestone reviews.
- Recommend CONOPS changes and develop use cases.
- Conduct and lead system test events.
- Evaluate vendor design and requirements specifications, hardware proposals, and software solutions.
- Coordinate and lead technical exchange meetings with vendors, customers, and system operators.
- Communicate complex engineering analyses and studies effectively to government and corporate management.
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Job Type
Full-time
