Systems Engineer / Principal Systems Engineer - Integration & Test

Description

The company provides mission-enabling solutions for global security.

The Engineering and Sciences group designs, produces, and sustains optimized product lines across the sector to give warfighters a decisive edge.

This opening is for a Systems Engineer or Principal Systems Engineer on the Integration & Test team in Woodland Hills, CA.

Responsibilities

• Gather requirements from a wide range of customers, turn them into design documents, and work with a varied team to build and test them.
• Review the capabilities of current products, analyze performance, and decide how each requirement will be verified.
• Turn customer or product needs into complete system solutions that fit technical, schedule, and cost limits.
• Carry out functional and timeline analyses, detailed trade studies, and requirements allocation.
• Create, review, and manage several requirement sets covering performance and non-performance needs such as mechanical and electrical interfaces, data, environment, and reliability.
• Track contract milestones and deliverables.
• Partner with Agile teams to confirm designs meet system requirements and that every requirement is verified by inspection, analysis, demonstration, or test, often by writing test and data reduction scripts.
• Direct test procedures so production and troubleshooting tests run correctly and their data meets requirements.
• Build simulation models for sensors and systems.

Requirements

• Systems Engineer: bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline with 2+ years of engineering experience.
• Systems Engineer: master's degree in a STEM discipline.
• Principal Systems Engineer: bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline with 5+ years of engineering experience.
• Principal Systems Engineer: master's degree in a STEM discipline with 3+ years of engineering experience.
• Principal Systems Engineer: PhD in a STEM discipline with 1+ year of experience.
• Hands-on systems engineering work in software requirements development, requirements development, and test case development.
• Hands-on verification and validation, running tests and documenting the results.
• Ability to obtain and keep a U.S. Government Secret clearance.
• Ability to work onsite full-time in Woodland Hills, CA.
• Preferred: strong written and oral communication skills.
• Preferred: collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Preferred: experience supporting test investigations and debugging.
• Preferred: experience with IBM Rational DOORS and technical baseline management.
• Preferred: experience on an engineering Agile team.
• Preferred: experience with JIRA.
• Preferred: systems engineering on large, complex systems.
• Preferred: lab and system integration experience.
• Preferred: strong time management and organizational skills.
• Preferred: understanding of and experience with Model Based Systems Engineering and Cameo modeling, or an equivalent.
• Preferred: experience with ClearQuest and ClearCase.

Conditions

Onsite full-time in Woodland Hills, CA.

Travel about 10% of the time.

Relocation assistance may be available.

No clearance is needed to start, but a U.S. Government Secret clearance is required.

Primary level base salary range is $91,800.00 to $137,600.00; secondary level range is $114,000.00 to $171,000.00.

Pay is a general guideline and depends on the scope and responsibilities of the role, the candidate's experience, education, skills, and current market conditions.

Depending on the position, overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus may be available in addition to base pay.

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

• 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 and personal business.