Principal / Sr Principal Aeronautical Engineer

Description

Relocation assistance may be available for this role, based in Palmdale, CA.

The role requires a Top Secret clearance before start.

Travel is about 10% of the time.

The team is part of the company Aeronautics Systems and is hiring a Principal or Senior Principal Aeronautical Engineer. The team works in an Integrated Product Team structure, so the company wants someone who can work independently and get started without close direction.

Responsibilities

• Apply engineering principles to investigate, analyze, plan, design, test and evaluate systems.
• Carry out trade studies, engineering and technical analyses, reports, change proposals and other technical documents.
• Take an active part in Agile work, including release planning, sprint planning, scrum and retrospectives.
• Work alongside systems, software (SW) and specialty engineers in an integrated team to build solutions.
• Prepare technical presentations for management and stakeholders, explaining approaches and findings clearly.
• Review test plans and procedures that verify requirements, support integration and testing of complex systems, and help resolve integration and test anomalies.
• Resolve interface and functionality problems between software components and or hardware (HW).
• Work with the SW and infrastructure teams to correct or improve capabilities.
• Write subsystem requirements and SRS/HRS specifications using MBSE tools and DOORS.
• Design the architecture of complex HW and SW systems, including requirements traceability and implementation assessment.
• Turn high-level needs into a structured, logical approach and an integrated set of requirements that leads 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. Author and run formal and informal engineering reviews.

Requirements

• Hold a Bachelor of Science in a STEM discipline plus 5 years of related professional or military experience for Level 3, or a Master's plus 3 years, or a Ph.D. plus 1 year.
• Hold a Bachelor of Science in a STEM discipline plus 8 years of related professional or military experience for Level 4, or a Master's plus 6 years, or a Ph.D. plus 4 years.
• Hold an active US Government Top Secret clearance, with a background investigation in the past 6 years or enrollment in Continuous Evaluation.
• Be able to obtain and keep Special Access Program (SAP) clearance within a time frame set by business needs. SAP/PAR will be upgraded after you start, so you must also be able to obtain and keep the upgraded SAP/PAR.
• Have experience with DOORS.
• Have experience working with systems and specialty engineers to build solutions, across all stages of the systems development life cycle.
• Have experience in one or more system engineering 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.
• Have experience producing system engineering artifacts such as specifications, Interface Control Documents, Use Cases, System Architecture Descriptions, Trade Studies and Design Packages.
• Have experience breaking parent-level requirements into lower system or subsystem requirements, and reviewing or writing HW/SW verification and validation.
• Preferred: current applicable 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 SW test automation tools or frameworks.
• Preferred: experience with Java, C++ or Python.
• Preferred: experience working 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 a virtual environment such as VMware, Openshift or Kubernetes.

Conditions

Full-time, on-site at the Palmdale facility. Remote, hybrid and telework are not available.

Travel of up to 25% may be required.

Schedule is 4/10 days, with every Friday off.

The application window is estimated at 20 days from the posting date, and may be shorter or longer depending on business needs and candidate availability.

Equal opportunity applies.

Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements.
• Strong learning opportunities, exposure to a wide range of projects and customers, and a friendly team.
• Pay range for the Primary Level is $114,000.00 to $171,000.00. Pay range for the Secondary Level is $142,200.00 to $213,400.00. The range is a general guide. The company considers scope and responsibilities, experience, education, skills and market conditions when setting base salary.
• Depending on the position, you may be eligible for overtime, shift differential and a discretionary annual bonus. Vice President and 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.