SUMMARYThe Systems Engineer's role is to provide technical oversight to engineering teams developing aerospace and flight worthy structures, mechanisms, mechanical products and systems. The Systems Engineer III is expected to contribute to product maturation by driving technical planning and execution, organizing and coordinating program-wide technical activities, documenting and reporting results, and ensuring the end product meets all applicable requirements.
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS - Medical, Dental, Vision
- Company Paid Life Insurance
- 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Paid Holidays
- Tuition Reimbursement*
WHAT YOU WILL DO- Contributes program-level technical oversight to ensure the end product meets all applicable requirements
- Ensures balanced emphasis on engineering design, analysis, and testing to produce a robust design
- Drives system level architectural decisions by modeling system level behavior and assisting with requirement decomposition.
- Verifies and documents system compliance to requirements
- Drives test plan development to validate system performance
- Supports development of engineering reports and presentations
- supports development of interface control drawings and interface description documents
- Providing systems engineering support during the proposal phase, including compliance matrix reviews of the Statement of Work (SOW) and customer performance specifications, and providing ROM estimates for Systems Engineering labor.
- Experience with DOORS Next Generation (DNG) and Jazz Team Server (JTS) Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM) to capture requirements, ensure traceability, and manage revisions/configuration control.
- Performing Concept of Operations (ConOps) to decompose customer requirements and define mission environments and system use cases.
- Decomposing system-level requirements into subsystem and component-level requirements for military, space, or aerospace applications.
- Experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and decomposing complex systems using Block Definition Diagrams (BDD) and Internal Block Diagrams (IBD) to identify system/subsystem interfaces.
- Conducting system architecture trade studies to assess design solutions based on performance, cost, and weight, and ensuring solutions meet minimum requirements.
- Leading program risk management, including documenting risks, hosting risk meetings, and ensuring risks are tracked in the program schedule and budget.
- Working with the Verification Compliance Review Matrix (VCRM) process, ensuring verifiable requirements are traceable to test and qualification plans.
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams (software, hardware, etc.) to ensure alignment of system requirements and solutions.
- Experience with system safety processes, including FMECA, fault-tree analysis, and designing for safety-critical systems.
- Knowledge of regulatory/certification processes, including compliance with NASA, FAA, or DoD standards for aerospace, space, or defense systems.
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR- B.S. or M.S. Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or equivalent• Typically possesses 4-7 years aerospace and/or defense experience
- Experience with development of mechanical systems and structures, electronics, electrical cabling, system integration and qualification testing
- Proficiency with general aerospace engineering knowledge including structural analysis, FEA, physics-based modeling, dynamics / kinematics, advanced high-strength materials, design and test
- Exemplifies technical leadership with demonstrated ability to develop, plan and execute multidisciplinary projects.
- Must be a U.S. citizen and able to obtain a DoD SECRET clearance
