Principal / Sr Principal Aeronautical Engineer

Description

The company's aeronautics systems unit is hiring a Principal or Senior Principal Aeronautical Engineer for its San Diego (Rancho Bernardo), California location.

You will work on your own initiative and be comfortable in an Integrated Product Team setup.

Relocation help may be available.

A Top Secret clearance is required before start, and about 10% of the time involves travel.

Responsibilities

• Use engineering principles to study, analyze, plan, design, test and assess systems.
• Run trade studies and engineering analyses, and write reports, change proposals and other technical documents.
• Take an active part in Agile work, including release planning, sprint planning, scrums and retrospectives.
• Collaborate in an integrated team with systems, software and specialty engineers to build solutions.
• Create technical presentations for managers and stakeholders that explain approaches and findings clearly.
• Review test plans and procedures that verify requirements, support integration and testing of complex systems, and help assess and resolve anomalies.
• Resolve interface and functional issues between software components and or hardware.
• Work with software and infrastructure teams to fix or enhance capabilities.
• Write subsystem requirements and SRS and HRS specifications using MBSE tools and DOORS.
• Design architectures for complex hardware and software systems, covering requirements traceability and implementation checks.
• Turn high-level needs into a structured, logical plan that becomes integrated requirements leading to a fielded product.
• Help write and review ICDs, requirements, the VCRM, architecture documents and system engineering estimates, and lead formal and informal engineering reviews.

Requirements

• The role may be filled at either level. Level 3: a Bachelor of Science in a STEM field 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 field plus 8 years of related professional or military experience, or a Master's degree plus 6 years, or a Ph.D. plus 4 years.
• An active US Government Top Secret clearance, with a background investigation completed within the last 6 years or enrollment in Continuous Evaluation.
• Ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance within a reasonable time, based on business needs.
• Ability to transfer and keep the final adjudicated US Government Top Secret clearance (in scope or enrolled in Continuous Evaluation) and any program access the role needs, within a reasonable period set by the company.
• Note: 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 with DOORS.
• Experience working with systems and specialty engineers on solutions, across all stages of the systems development life cycle.
• Experience in one or more systems engineering areas: technical planning, requirements derivation, functional and timeline analysis, trade studies, cost and risk analysis, interface definition, system design, 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 requirements into system, subsystem and lower-level requirements, and reviewing or developing HW/SW verification and validation.
• Preferred: current applicable Special Access Program (SAP) clearance.
• Preferred: Security+ certification.
• Preferred: experience with Ansible Engine.
• Preferred: experience with the IBM Rational tool suite (DOORS and ClearQuest).
• Preferred: experience with the Atlassian tool suite (JIRA, Git, Confluence).
• Preferred: experience with software test automation tools or frameworks.
• Preferred: experience with Java, C++, or Python.
• Preferred: experience working within 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 software products running in a virtual environment such as VMware, Openshift or Kubernetes.
• Yellow is listed as a separate item with no further explanation.

Conditions

Full-time, on site at the San Diego facility. Remote, hybrid and telework are not available for this role.

Travel of up to 25% may be required.

Work a 4/10 schedule with every Friday off.

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

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. The company considers the scope of the role, the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions when making an offer.

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

• Flexible work arrangements.
• Strong learning opportunities, exposure to a wide range of projects and customers, and a friendly team.
• Depending on the position, possible overtime pay, shift differential and a discretionary bonus on top of base pay.
• Annual bonuses that 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 cover, a savings plan, paid company holidays, and PTO for vacation or personal business.