Principal / Senior Principal Systems Engineer

Description

This role is in the missions systems group and is offered at the Principal and Senior Principal levels.

You will bring working knowledge of requirements development, test case development, and verification and validation. Hands-on skill managing requirements and the technical baseline in IBM Rational DOORS is central to the job.

You will act as the technical lead and point of contact for the Chief Engineer and the customer.

Responsibilities

• Gather requirements from a wide range of customers, turn them into design documentation, and work with a mixed team to build and test them.
• Present to customers on current product capabilities, performance analyses, design details, and how requirements will be verified.
• Create, review, and manage several requirements sets covering performance and non-performance aspects, including mechanical interfaces, electrical interfaces, data, environmental needs, and reliability.
• Track contract milestones and deliverables and respond to them promptly.
• Lead an Agile team to confirm that designs will meet system requirements.
• Work with several Agile teams to verify every requirement by inspection, analysis, demonstration, or test, often by writing test and data reduction scripts.
• Write test directions so production and troubleshooting tests run correctly and their data meets requirements.

Requirements

• Principal level: a bachelor's degree in a STEM field with 5+ years of engineering experience, a master's degree in STEM with 3+ years, or a PhD in STEM with 1+ years.
• Senior Principal level: a bachelor's degree in a STEM field with 8+ years of engineering experience, a master's degree in STEM with 6+ years, or a PhD in STEM with 4+ years.
• Experience with IBM Rational DOORS.
• Proven ability to manage a technical baseline, write and update DOORS requirements, and decompose and derive requirements from customer specifications.
• Experience in systems engineering, including software requirements development, requirements development, test case development, and running tests and documenting the results for verification and validation.
• Strong written and verbal communication, with a record of presenting to internal and external stakeholders and explaining technical content such as requirements updates and test plans, including integration test plans.
• Proven support for test investigations and debugging.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams.
• Preferred: experience with the MIL-STD-1553, ARINC-429, and Ethernet interfaces.
• Preferred: experience working in an Agile engineering team.
• Preferred: experience with JIRA.
• Preferred: systems engineering on large, complex systems.
• Preferred: lab and system integration experience.
• Preferred: model-based systems engineering with Cameo modeling or an equivalent tool.
• Preferred: experience with ClearQuest and ClearCase.

Conditions

An active U.S. Government Secret clearance is required, and it must be in place at the start date.

Travel is 10% of the time.

Full-time onsite work in Woodland Hills, CA is required.

Relocation assistance may be available.

Primary level base salary range: $114,000.00 to $171,000.00. Secondary level base salary range: $142,200.00 to $213,400.00. These ranges are general guidelines, and offers depend on the scope and responsibilities of the role, the candidate's experience, education, skills, and current market conditions.

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

Benefits

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