Vertex Inc

Sr. Principal Systems Engineer, Weapon System Integration - Product Owner

Vertex Inc$120K — $145K *
Aerospace & Defense
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • U.S. Citizenship with ability to obtain DoD Secret Clearance
  • 15+ years in systems, software, or hardware engineering
  • Leadership experience for multi-discipline teams
  • Expertise in systems engineering tasks across programs
  • Proven skills in integration, verification, and validation leadership
  • Strong ownership of engineering scope and task execution
  • Experience in developing technical requirements and change requests

Responsibilities

  • Lead technical and programmatic efforts throughout the development lifecycle
  • Drive concept development, requirements definition, and functional analysis
  • Support design reviews and ensure system implementation and validation
  • Collaborate within a cross-functional Integrated Product Team (IPT)
  • Enhance product quality and team productivity using modern processes
  • Communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders
  • Mentor engineers and support skill development across teams

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on advanced military systems
  • Engagement with a diverse cross-functional team
  • Chance to support DoD customers and international allies
  • Participation in innovative projects with cutting-edge technology
  • Career development through mentoring and technical leadership opportunities
Full Job Description
Responsibilities

The ideal candidate embraces modern development processes and techniques that improve product quality & team productivity and has experience developing and integrating advanced systems including situational awareness displays, mission computers, avionics, sensors, mission equipment, and radar systems. We are looking for engineers that enjoy a challenge and have a passion to support our DoD customers and international allies.

The Sr. Principal Systems Engineer provides technical and programmatic leadership throughout the development life cycle, from concept development, requirements definition, functional analysis, design review support, system implementation, integration, verification, and validation. The Sr. Principal Systems Engineer will work within a cross-functional Integrated Product Team (IPT), where strong communication and team building skills are critical to success.

Qualifications

Required Skills:
  • Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain a DoD Secret Clearance.
  • At least fifteen (15) of related engineering experience in systems, software, or hardware engineering.
  • Experience providing leadership, technical direction, and guidance to large multi-discipline teams.
  • Experience leading all systems engineering tasks and cross-product activities across the program.
  • Experience planning, executing and leading integration, verification and validation tasks and cross-product activities across the program.
  • Ability to take ownership of the engineering scope within the program and drive the necessary tasks to ultimately ensure the cross-function team meets the technical
    requirements.
  • Experience developing technical baselines (requirements/architecture); leading development teams; and developing and reviewing Engineering Change Requests.
  • Experience leading Trade Studies, performing Risk and Opportunity analyses, and tracking and mitigating risks.
  • Strong communication skills and ability to effectively communicate to internal and external stakeholders including leading both internal and customer design reviews.
  • Experience developing system verification test plans, procedures and reports.
  • In-depth understanding of the System Engineering Lifecycle and processes.
  • Experience mentoring engineers of all grade levels.

Desired Skills:
  • Experience with Agile software development including previous roles as a Product Owner and/or Scrum Master.
  • Familiarity with UI/UX principles and user-centered design.
  • Experience with failure investigation processes and driving findings to closure.
  • Familiarity with tools like Azure DevOps, Jira, or other product management tools.
  • Experience supporting integration of weapon systems on airborne and ground platforms.
  • Experience with the design, development, and integration of UAI Mission Stores, Type I and Type II Carriage Systems.
  • Knowledge and experience working with UAI interface standards such as: MIL-STD-1553 EBR, MIL-STD-1760, and JMMI.
  • Direct experience working with government customers including the US Army, US Navy, USMC and/or USAF.
  • Experience working the front end of the business, creating/reviewing RFPs, SOWs, BOEs, technical volumes, proposals, cost, and schedule estimates.
  • Project management experience including cost, schedule, supplier management, risk, and opportunity assessment.

Education Requirements:
  • Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or related STEM discipline.

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About Vertex Inc

Vertex Inc is a leading provider of tax technology and services, enabling companies of all sizes to realize the full strategic potential of the tax function by automating and integrating tax processes, while leveraging advanced and predictive analytics of tax data. Vertex provides cloud-based and on-premise solutions that can be tailored to specific industries for every major line of tax, including income, sales and consumer use, value added and payroll. Vertex also offers solutions for tax data management, compliance and reporting, tax research, and planning and analysis. The company was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania.
Learn more about Vertex Inc
Size
1,200 employees
Market Cap
$2.2 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$78.9 million
Founded
1978
Revenue
$374.6 million
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