Scientist, Systems Engineering (Chief Engineer - COMET) at Level 3 Communications, Inc in Palm Bay, FL

Essential Functions:

• Technical oversight and leadership of heterogenous blends of embedded hardware and enterprise-level infrastructures and platforms using embedded and cloud computing technologies into highly scalable, fault-tolerant, and seamless MOSA mission solutions.
• Accountable for the technical integrity of the system through the product/program full life cycle including proposals, design, integration & test, verification, and sustainment.
• Walk both sides of the V; decompose requirements to drive a risk mitigated development plan, oversea system integration, and lead requirements-based verification using test threads.
• Manage teams of engineers with technical, cost and schedule accountability.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Science or Engineering and 12 years’ experience, OR, Master’s Degree in Science or Engineering and 10 years of relevant experience.
• System engineering experience on complex military systems with a focus on MOSA mission computing or Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA).
• Active Top Secret security clearance required.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Experience with executing throughout the full Avionics lifecycle including requirements flow down and allocation, design, development, test, and sell-off.
• Experience developing technical or cost proposals in a defense contracting environment.
• Ability to lead systems engineering using model-based system engineering (MBSE) tools and methods.
• Expertise in Modular Open Systems Architecture (MOSA).
• Expertise in developing Product Line Architectures.
• Open standard participation such as SOSA, JCA, VITA, FACE, OCS, SCA.
• Implementation of Cloud infrastructures and virtualization on embedded platforms.
• Expert knowledge of data models, hardware/software interfaces, synchronous processing constructs and control methodology, real-time processing, and embedded system and subsystem management.
• Has conducted customer verification on Military/Civil specifications such as DO256, DO160, and DO178C.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in a technical information environment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work well across multiple engineering disciplines.
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