Engineer Systems/Principal Engineer Systems

Description

The company builds aircraft and aerospace systems, and this role supports the architecture of the Advanced Hawkeye program within its Aeronautics Systems business.

The Systems Integration team sits inside systems engineering and covers the technical baseline and program work across several Advanced Hawkeye programs. The team coordinates with system, software, test and quality groups to bring new capability programs together, and it also helps move engineering practices toward digital tools across the enterprise.

Integration means assembling lower-level system elements step by step until the complete system exists. The work covers planning, staged build-up, and making sure the configuration items work together as one system. The result is a product baseline under configuration control, approved for formal verification. Early interface work matters a great deal here. Interface control specifications, interface control documents and interface design descriptions show that each interface is accurate, effective and under configuration control.

Relocation assistance may be available. Clearance is required before start. The clearance type is Secret. Travel is 25% of the time.

Responsibilities

• Write an integration plan that fits the program's Integrated Master Schedule.
• Run integration activities according to the approved plan.
• Track development and delivery schedules for the components being integrated.
• Peer review test procedures to confirm they meet the verification plan and cover the stated requirements.
• Link test procedures to their integration plans and the requirements they verify.
• Review test results and identify integration verification failures that need action.
• Confirm integration failures and discrepancies are logged and reviewed by the right technical review board.
• Support periodic Interface Control Working Groups (ICWG).
• Manage and document hardware and software configurations.

Requirements

• Principal (Level 3): a Bachelor's degree and 5 years of related professional or military experience, or a Master's degree and 3 years, or a Ph.D. and 1 year.
• Senior Principal (Level 4): a Bachelor's degree and 8 years of related professional or military experience, or a Master's degree and 6 years, or a Ph.D. and 4 years.
• Understanding of systems engineering principles.
• Ability to write systems integration plans.
• Experience integrating aircraft systems in development or production.
• Understanding of aircraft development or other major platforms such as spacecraft or radar.
• Ability to carry out integration activities and track their metrics.
• Ability to obtain or keep a U.S. Government Secret or higher clearance, with a background investigation completed in the last 6 years or current enrollment in Continuous Evaluation.
• Ability to obtain and keep Special Access Program (SAP) clearance within a reasonable time, as business needs determine.
• Nice to have: experience with MBSE tools for planning integration activities.
• Nice to have: experience with Jira, Confluence, DOORS and Cameo, or equivalent.
• Nice to have: experience with test benches and verification.
• Nice to have: understanding of aircraft system interfaces such as 1553 and 429.
• Nice to have: experience with deficiency reporting and writing.
• Nice to have: help resolving deficiency reports.
• Nice to have: full working knowledge of systems engineering procedures and practices.
• Nice to have: evaluate test requirements to confirm the test phase is complete.
• Nice to have: help with sign-off of system requirements to the customer.
• Nice to have: track hardware and software configuration through the development lifecycle.
• Nice to have: already hold an active DoD TS clearance.
• Nice to have: already hold an active program-specific SAP clearance.

Conditions

Onsite in Melbourne, FL.

Role can be filled at Principal (Level 3) or Senior Principal (Level 4).

Travel is 25% of the time.

Clearance is required for start, type Secret.

Relocation assistance may be available.

Primary level base salary: $98,400.00 to $147,600.00.

Secondary level base salary: $122,800.00 to $184,200.00.

Final pay is set by the scope of the role and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions, within the range above.

The application period is estimated at 20 days from the posting date, and may be shortened or extended based on business needs and candidate availability.

Benefits

• Depending on the position, you may be eligible for overtime, shift differential and a discretionary bonus on top of base pay. Annual bonuses reward individual work and share company results.
• Employees in Vice President or Director roles may be eligible for Long Term Incentives.
• Benefits include health insurance, life and disability insurance, a savings plan, company-paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation or personal business.