Title:  Senior Specialist, Systems Engineering

Job Title: Senior Specialist, Systems Engineering

Job Code: 32841

Job Location: Bristol, PA

Job Schedule: 9/80 Regular

Job Description:

We are seeking an experienced Sr. Specialist Systems Engineer, Instrumentation Design Engineer to be a technical leader throughout the entire development lifecycle including programs, pursuits, and basic research. In this role, you will be responsible for system definition and design, interface management, technical trade studies, performance budgets, requirements decomposition, allocation, management, and requirements-based validation and verification. You will collaborate closely with customers, product/program managers, engineers, operations, and third-party vendors to ensure the systems and products meet or exceed customer needs. Additionally, you will conduct system integration, characterize performance, and contribute to a heterogenous blend of embedded hardware, firmware, and software-based flight test instrumentation products. This is an exciting opportunity to expand your skills, tackle unique engineering challenges, and support next-generation technology for U.S. and allied warfighters as part of a talented, collaborative team.  

Essential Functions:

• Overall responsibility for development of program technical baseline.  Works closely with program Chief System Engineer to develop verifiable technical requirements.
• Responsible for providing technical leadership, guidance, and direction to Electrical, Mechanical, Software, and Firmware designers to ensure the success of the design.
• Control and develop requirements and verification plans while positively interacting with customers to solve technical problems and identify areas to improve their work
• Responsible 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, oversee system integration, and lead requirements-based verification using test threads
• Technical point of contact for the customer.
• Brief leadership on technical status.
• Identifies, tracks, mitigates, manages, and dispositions program-level risks and opportunities.
• Ability to lead Root Cause / Corrective Action investigations that are typically associated with Qualification or Acceptance test failures including managing the investigation and briefing internal and external customers throughout the effort.
• Estimate resource and material needs for the project/product.

Qualifications:

• Requires strong knowledge of job area. Typically viewed as having a specialty within discipline. May have broad knowledge of project management. Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 6 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years of prior related experience.
• Experience in digital electronics, FPGA/VHDL and software development and integration programs.
• Experience with requirements management along with DOORs, JAMA or equivalent requirements management tool.
• Experience leading requirements analysis, decomposition and assignment to appropriate functional areas of responsibility, and manage traceability of requirements back to customer specifications. 
• Experience creating requirements test verification matrices.
• Experience leading Engineering teams to create requirements test verification matrices.
• Experience managing multiple technical projects that include system integration, system verification, and formal qualification of electronic subsystem designs.
• Experience with Risk and Opportunity Management, Technical Supplier Management
• Experience with leading a diverse development and operations team.
• Experience across product development lifecycle.
• System level design experience
• Experience being involved in system integration, engineering testing, and system performance characterization.
  
  

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Extensive experience in digital electronics, FPGA/VHDL and software development of custom electronic subsystems
• Experience in detailed design for Telemetry or similar mixed-signal products.
• Experience or knowledge of Government contract acquisition lifecycle a plus
• Excellent communication skills (written, verbal, & presentation)
• Experience developing technical or cost proposals (including generating basis of estimates) in a defense contracting environment
• Ability to make technical decisions, guide the technical direction/vision for a given project, complete project objectives within budget and schedule, and work with little supervision.
• Ability to work successfully with both internal and external stakeholders
• Ability to work with flexible goals or shifting scope
• Ability to obtain a Secret clearance.
• Master’s degree in Systems, Electrical, or similar Engineering discipline
• Perform trade studies on a variety of systems and components
• Experience developing and maintaining an integrated master schedule
• Experience managing multiple technical projects with budgets of $5M+ each
• Experience with COMSEC products or information assurance requirements
• Expertise in Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and Open Systems design
• Develops or champions new systems, concepts, or technologies.
• Expert knowledge of data models, hardware/software interfaces, synchronous processing constructs and control methodology, real-time processing including CPU / FPGA / GPU fabric, precision time distribution and discipline, and data interfaces
• Demonstrated mastery level knowledge within a specific technical area, with the ability to serve as a subject matter expert in one or more areas.
• Experience in Control Account Management as part of an Earned Value Management System
• Experience in development of use cases developed from customer objectives and concepts of operations
• Excellent people skills to include collaborating in a multi-disciplinary, diverse, and dynamic team environment.