Sr. Principal Systems Engineer - LTC Design / Architecture / Integration

Description

The company's Aeronautics Systems group is hiring a senior principal systems engineer for Long Term Comms design, architecture and integration. The role sits in the Systems Engineering organization and is based in Rancho Bernardo, CA.

You would serve as the Global Hawk SEI Long Term Comms (LTC) design, architecture and integration systems engineer for the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) business area. You would lead a diverse engineering team on difficult problems across the FMS customers' Global Hawk portfolio, working through the full Systems Engineering V-Model from requirements and use cases to integration planning, lab integration, test planning, formal test and verification.

Responsibilities

• Lead a diverse engineering team in building technical solutions to a wide range of hard problems across the FMS Global Hawk portfolio.
• Keep the technical baseline current so it forms one coherent system solution.
• Capture and translate stakeholder mission needs and objectives into clear requirements, working directly with customers and end users.
• Confirm that customers and end users understand and accept system requirements, design, risks and limitations, and communicate them.
• Apply operational experience, architecture and system knowledge to create inventive solutions to stakeholder needs.
• Define use cases early in the development lifecycle to drive system requirements and architecture.
• Build and validate system-level models for concept development, design, verification and validation.
• Draw on your experience with fielded aircraft systems, UAVs and the full systems engineering lifecycle, including design reviews, requirements decomposition, test planning and verification.
• Plan and run schedules, and lead the team to meet them.
• Prepare deliverables for milestone reviews such as SRR, SFR, PDR, CDR and FCA.
• Present status clearly to internal executives and customers.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a STEM field and at least 8 years of relevant military or professional experience, or a master's degree in a STEM field and at least 6 years, or a PhD and at least 4 years.
• Active US Government Secret clearance or higher, with a background investigation completed in the last 6 years or current enrollment in Continuous Evaluation.
• Prior DOORS experience for requirements management.
• Prior experience managing functional and allocated technical baselines.
• Experience with integration, interfaces and ICDs.
• Preferred: experience with the RQ-4 air vehicle, ground segment, sensor payloads, COMMS and support equipment.
• Preferred: experience with FMS customers, FMS operations and FMS architecture.
• Preferred: experience with MBSE.
• Preferred: requirements verification and validation, including generating Requirements Verification Plans (RVPs) and Requirements Verification Reports (RVRs) and verification sell-off.
• Preferred: Functional Configuration Audit (FCA) experience.
• Preferred: use case generation.
• Preferred: experience as a segment-level systems engineer.
• Preferred: active TS/SCI clearance.
• Preferred: MS degree in a STEM field.

Conditions

Based in Rancho Bernardo, CA.

Travel about 10% of the time.

A Secret clearance is required for start.

Relocation assistance may be available.

Base salary range is $142,200.00 - $213,400.00 as a general guide. The actual offer depends on scope, responsibilities, experience, education, skills and current market conditions.

Application period estimated at 20 days from the posting date. It may be shortened or extended based on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.

Benefits

• Depending on the position, you may be eligible for overtime, shift differential and a discretionary annual bonus that rewards individual contribution and company results.
• Vice President and Director roles may be eligible for Long Term Incentives.
• Health insurance, life and disability insurance, a savings plan, paid company holidays, and paid time off for vacation or personal business.