Principal / Senior Principal Aeronautical Engineer

Description

The company's Aeronautics Systems group is hiring a Principal or Senior Principal Aeronautical Engineer based in Palmdale, CA.

The role may be filled at either level, depending on your qualifications.

You will be a self-starter who is comfortable working in an Integrated Product Team structure.

Responsibilities

• Apply engineering principles to study, model, plan, design, test and assess systems.
• Write trade studies, technical analyses, reports, change proposals and other technical documents.
• Take an active part in Agile work, including release planning, sprint planning, scrums and retrospectives.
• Collaborate in integrated teams with systems, software (SW) and specialty engineers to build solutions.
• Prepare technical presentations for managers and stakeholders that explain approaches and findings clearly.
• Review test plans and procedures used to verify requirements, and help integrate and test complex systems, including assessing anomalies and helping resolve them.
• Resolve interface and functional problems between software components and/or hardware (HW).
• Partner with the software and infrastructure teams to fix or improve capabilities.
• Write subsystem requirements and SRS/HRS specifications using MBSE tools and DOORS.
• Design architecture for complex HW and SW systems, covering requirements traceability and implementation assessment.
• Turn high-level needs into a structured, logical approach that breaks a capability into an integrated set of requirements leading to a fielded product.
• Help develop and review interface control documents (ICDs), requirements, the Verification Cross Reference Matrix (VCRM), architecture documents and system engineering estimates, and lead formal and informal engineering reviews.

Requirements

• Level 3: a Bachelor of Science in a STEM discipline plus 5 years of related professional or military experience, or a Master's degree plus 3 years, or a Ph.D. plus 1 year.
• Level 4: a Bachelor of Science in a STEM discipline plus 8 years of related professional or military experience, or a Master's degree plus 6 years, or a Ph.D. plus 4 years.
• Ability to obtain or transfer, and maintain, the final U.S. adjudicated government Top Secret clearance and any required program access within a reasonable period, as determined by the company.
• SAP/PAR will be upgraded once the selected candidate is in the role, so you must also be able to obtain and maintain the upgraded SAP/PAR.
• Experience in DOORS.
• Experience working with systems and specialty engineers on solutions across all phases of the systems development life cycle.
• Experience in one or more of these areas: technical planning, requirements derivation, functional analysis, timeline analysis, trade studies, cost and risk analysis, interface definition, system design, system integration, verification and validation, supportability, and effectiveness analysis for total systems.
• Experience producing systems engineering artifacts such as specifications, Interface Control Documents, use cases, system architecture descriptions, trade studies and design packages.
• Experience with requirements development: breaking parent-level requirements into lower system or subsystem requirements (system/SW architecture, HW/SW design), reviewing or writing them, and HW/SW verification and validation.
• Preferred: current applicable Special Access Program (SAP) clearance.
• Preferred: Security+ certification.
• Preferred: experience with Ansible Engine.
• Preferred: experience with IBM Rational tools (DOORS and ClearQuest).
• Preferred: experience with Atlassian tools (JIRA, Git, Confluence).
• Preferred: experience with SW test automation tools or frameworks.
• Preferred: experience with Java, C++ or Python.
• Preferred: experience in an Agile development environment.
• Preferred: experience with MBSE, architecture development, system design and analysis, and metrics development.
• Preferred: experience as a Product Owner.
• Preferred: experience with SW products running in virtual environments (e.g. VMware, Openshift, Kubernetes).

Conditions

Full-time and on-site at the facility; no remote, hybrid or telework is available.

Travel is listed as 10% of the time, and up to 25% may be required.

Relocation assistance may be available.

Top Secret clearance is required for start.

The opportunity depends on program funding, and start dates are set after funding is confirmed.

Level 3 primary salary range: $114,000.00 to $171,000.00. Level 4 secondary salary range: $142,200.00 to $213,400.00. These ranges are a general guideline; base offers depend on scope, responsibilities, experience, education, skills and market conditions.

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.

The posting also lists 'Yellow' with no further detail.

Benefits

• Health insurance, life and disability insurance, a savings plan, company-paid holidays, and paid time off for vacation and personal business.
• Depending on the position, eligibility for overtime, shift differential and a discretionary bonus on top of base pay.
• Annual bonuses that reward individual contributions and let you share in company results.
• Vice President and Director roles may be eligible for Long Term Incentives.