Systems Engineer - Level 4 - Space AHT

Description

The company's space systems, multi-domain operations and missile defense integration business unit is hiring a Senior Systems Engineer at Level 4 for its Huntsville, AL site. The role may be filled at Senior Principal Systems Engineer, Level 4, depending on your qualifications.

This is not an open requisition. The company may keep your profile for future roles that come up often, and candidates who express interest may be considered for those openings.

The team is collaborative, works across many different assignments, and operates at a fast pace with high expectations.

Responsibilities

• Lead an Agile systems engineering team.
• Lead and carry out model-based systems engineering (MBSE) work, including functional and behavior analysis and the development and decomposition of requirements for integrated software and hardware systems.
• Direct the publishing of change notices to system specifications and keep requirements databases, architecture models and interface definitions current, including tracing system and element-level requirements.
• Direct the writing of reports and briefings that present analysis results to internal and external stakeholders for review.
• Lead test plan and verification plan development and track verification status.
• Support hardware integration in lab environments and work with lab managers to understand and communicate integration dependencies.

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree in a STEM field from an accredited university plus 8 years of related work experience, or a master's degree in STEM plus 6 years of related experience, or a PhD in STEM plus 4 years of related experience.
• Substantial hands-on experience with MSOSA (Cameo) and DOORS for developing system-level behaviors, software-to-hardware interface definitions and interface control documents.
• Experience reading electrical schematics, electrical interface control documents (ICDs), circuit diagrams, and FPGA or logic gate diagrams.
• A proven background in architecture development, functional decomposition, requirements development and allocation, and interface definition using system modeling tools.
• Experience writing test plans and verification plans and tracking verification status.
• Strong background in MBSE and in using SysML to describe the behavior of complex DoD systems.
• Experience leading and mentoring a team.
• Experience with Agile development, including leading Scrum events such as sprint planning, Program Increment (PI) planning, backlog refinement, roadmap development and retrospectives, and delivering work against set deadlines and milestones.
• Experience briefing external customers and managing subcontractors.
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 10% of the time to meet business needs.
• A current, active, in-scope U.S. DoD Secret security clearance at the time you apply, required to start.
• Preferred: experience modeling or simulating missile defense or related areas such as air combat, air defense, ballistic or non-ballistic target intercept, space vehicles, or sub-orbital mechanics.
• Preferred: systems modeling and analysis experience with one or more missile defense system elements, such as Aegis Weapon System, Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD), Glide Phase Intercept (GPI), Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor (HBTSS), fire control, C2BMC, MDS sensors (EO/IR/RF), kill vehicles, interceptors or countermeasures.
• Preferred: systems engineering experience on large, complex systems.
• Preferred: experience with Atlassian products such as JIRA and Confluence for building product backlogs, roadmaps and reporting metrics.

Conditions

Relocation assistance may be available.

Travel of up to 10% of the time.

Based in Huntsville, AL.

The base salary range is $135,800.00 to $203,600.00. This is a general guideline, and the final offer depends on factors such as the scope of the role and your experience, education, skills and current market conditions.

The application window is estimated at 20 days from the posting date, and may be shorter or longer depending on business needs and candidate availability.

Benefits

• Eligibility for overtime, shift differential and a discretionary annual bonus, depending on the position.
• Eligibility for Long Term Incentives for Vice President and Director roles.
• Health insurance, life and disability insurance, a savings plan, paid company holidays, and paid time off for vacation and personal business.
• Eligibility for the Space Employee Referral Award Program (ERAP) under its published criteria.