Staff Systems Engineer

Description

The team is looking for a skilled, self-starting systems engineer who is strong in requirements development, test case development, and verification and validation.

You will manage the requirements technical baseline in IBM Rational DOORS and serve as technical lead and main contact for the Chief Engineer and the customer.

You will start work without waiting for direction, decide on and follow the steps needed to reach results, take early technical ideas to a mature solution or product, speak for the team on advanced technical topics, and advise management and customers.

Responsibilities

• Gather requirements from a wide range of customers, turn them into design documentation, and work with a varied team to build and test them.
• Solve complex technical problems so the solutions meet the needs of the customer and the program.
• Present product capabilities, performance analyses, design information, and requirements verification methods to customers and program leadership.
• Create, review, and manage several requirements sets covering performance and nonperformance needs, including mechanical and electrical interfaces, data, environment, and reliability.
• Track contract milestones and deliverables and respond to them promptly.
• Lead an Agile team to confirm that designs meet system requirements.
• Work with several Agile teams to verify every requirement through inspection, analysis, demonstration, or test, often by writing test and data reduction scripts.
• Give test direction so production and troubleshooting tests run correctly and their data meets requirements.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline with 12+ years of engineering experience, Master's degree in a STEM discipline with 10+ years, or PhD in a STEM discipline with 8+ years.
• Proven success with technical baseline management, writing and updating DOORS requirements, and decomposing and deriving requirements from customer specifications.
• Hands-on experience in software requirements development, requirements development, test case development, and verification and validation, including running tests and recording results.
• Strong written and spoken communication, including presenting to internal and external stakeholders and conveying technical information such as requirements updates and test plans, including integration test plans.
• Proven experience leading test investigations and debugging work.
• Proven success taking technical concepts from development through a mature solution to implementation.
• Proven success as the team's spokesperson on advanced technical solutions and as an advisor to management and customers.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams as the lead systems engineer.
• Preferred: experience with MIL-STD-1553, ARINC-429, and Ethernet interfaces.
• Preferred: experience leading an Agile engineering team and using JIRA.
• Preferred: experience leading systems engineering teams through complex technical work and building solutions into large, complex systems.
• Preferred: demonstrated lab, software, and system integration experience.
• Preferred: experience with Model Based Systems Engineering and Cameo modeling, or an equivalent.
• Preferred: experience with ClearQuest and ClearCase.

Conditions

A current or active U.S. Government Secret clearance is required before start.

Clearance type: Secret.

Travel: 10% of the time.

Work onsite full-time in Woodland Hills, CA.

Relocation assistance may be available.

Primary level base salary range: $177,000.00 - $265,600.00. This is a general guide; the offer depends on the scope and responsibilities of the role and on your 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 you share in company results.
• Vice President and Director roles may be eligible for Long Term Incentives.
• Benefits include health insurance, life and disability insurance, a savings plan, paid company holidays, and paid time off for vacation or personal business.