Systems Engineer - R&V (Principal or Senior Principal)

Description

The company builds aerospace systems. This opening is for a Systems Engineer at Principal or Senior Principal level, focused on requirements and verification, based in Rancho Bernardo, CA.

You would sit on the Core Systems Engineering team, where your main work is requirements on the enterprise program, with the greatest weight on Increment 2.

You would write, analyze and break down requirements, plan and run verification campaigns, and perform use case analysis, system traces and architecture analysis, so the requirements baseline stays rigorous and can be executed against the platform's required capabilities.

You would also help varied engineering design teams find inventive technical answers to hard problems across the full V-model, carry out system integration over the entire lifecycle, and add new capabilities to the platform.

The role can be filled at either level, depending on the qualifications listed below.

Responsibilities

• Develop system-level requirements and use cases with cross-IPT teams
• Build the requirements verification method and keep traceability in place
• Help define interfaces and write integration plans
• Run formal integration and capabilities-based system testing on fully integrated, complex hardware and software subsystems
• Review integration and test anomalies, and help resolve and correct issues as they are found
• Carry out requirements verification and sign-off
• Support flight test activity and assets already in the field
• Control the configuration of development and production systems
• Draft capability roadmaps for assigned capability areas

Requirements

• Principal level: a bachelor's degree in a STEM field plus at least 5 years of relevant military or professional experience, or a master's degree in a STEM field plus at least 3 years, or a PhD plus at least 1 year of relevant military, professional or academic experience
• Senior Principal level: a bachelor's degree in a STEM field plus at least 8 years of relevant military or professional experience, or a master's degree in a STEM field plus at least 6 years, or a PhD plus at least 4 years of relevant military or professional experience
• Hold an active US Government Secret or higher clearance, with a background investigation completed within the last 6 years or current enrollment in Continuous Evaluation, at both levels
• Have experience generating, assessing and decomposing requirements, at both levels
• Preferred: an active US Government Secret or higher clearance, with a background investigation completed within the last 6 years or current enrollment in Continuous Evaluation
• Preferred: demonstrated experience defining requirements at the customer level
• Preferred: familiarity with the V model and design processes
• Preferred: familiarity with TeamCenter PLC and JIRA/Confluence
• Preferred: demonstrated experience with IFC development and management
• Preferred: familiarity with requirements decomposition and verification campaigns
• Preferred: demonstrated experience performing lab integration

Conditions

Located in Rancho Bernardo, CA

An active Secret clearance is required for start

Travel is 10% of the time

Base pay guideline at Principal level: $114,000.00 to $171,000.00; at Senior Principal level: $142,200.00 to $213,400.00

These ranges are general guidelines. Actual offers depend on the scope of the role, the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.

The application window is estimated at 20 days from the posting date, and may be shortened or extended based on business needs and candidate availability

Benefits

• Relocation assistance may be available
• May be eligible for overtime, shift differential and a discretionary annual bonus on top of base pay, which rewards individual contributions and shares 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