Principal / Sr Principal Aeronautical Engineer

Description

The company's Aeronautics Systems group has an opening for a Principal Aeronautical Engineer or Senior Principal Aeronautical Engineer, based in Palmdale, CA.

You will join a team of qualified engineers and work within an Integrated Product Team setup. The role suits someone who can work independently and get started without close direction.

The role requires an active Top Secret clearance before start. Relocation assistance may be available, and travel is 10% of the time.

Responsibilities

• Apply engineering principles to investigate, analyze, plan, design, test and evaluate systems.
• Carry out trade studies, engineering and technical 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 with systems, software (SW) and specialty engineers in an integrated team to develop 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 assess and resolve integration and test anomalies.
• Resolve interface and functionality problems between software components and or hardware (HW).
• Work with the software and infrastructure teams to correct 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, breaking them into an integrated set of requirements that leads to a fielded product.
• Develop and review interface control documents (ICDs), requirements, the Verification Cross Reference Matrix (VCRM), architecture documentation and system engineering estimates, and author and run formal and informal engineering reviews.

Requirements

• Level 3: a Bachelor of Science in a STEM discipline with 5 years of related professional or military experience, or a Master's degree with 3 years of related experience, or a Ph.D. with 1 year of related experience.
• Level 4: a Bachelor of Science in a STEM discipline with 8 years of related professional or military experience, or a Master's degree with 6 years of related experience, or a Ph.D. with 4 years of related experience.
• The role may be filled at either level, based on the qualifications below.
• An active US Government Top Secret clearance, with a background investigation in the past 6 years or enrollment in Continuous Evaluation.
• The ability to obtain and keep Special Access Program (SAP) clearance within a timeframe set by business needs.
• The ability to transfer and keep the final adjudicated US Government Top Secret clearance, in scope or enrolled in Continuous Evaluation, plus any program access the role requires, within a reasonable period set by the company.
• The ability to obtain and keep upgraded SAP and PAR once you are in the role, as these will be upgraded after selection.
• Experience with DOORS.
• Experience working with systems and specialty engineers to develop solutions across the full systems development life cycle.
• Experience in one or more systems 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.
• Experience producing systems engineering artifacts such as specifications, Interface Control Documents, use cases, system architecture descriptions, trade studies and design packages.
• Experience decomposing requirements from parent level to lower system or subsystem level, such as system and SW architecture or HW and SW design, and reviewing or writing them, along with HW and SW verification and validation.
• Preferred: a 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 facility. Remote, hybrid and telework are not available for this role.

Travel of up to 25% may be required.

Schedule is 4/10, with every Friday off.

Flexible work arrangements are available.

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

Listed as: Yellow.

Primary level base salary: $114,000.00 to $171,000.00.

Secondary level base salary: $142,200.00 to $213,400.00.

The salary range is a general guideline. The company considers factors such as the scope and responsibilities of the role, the candidate's experience, education, skills and current 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.

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 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 or personal business.