Title:  Sr. Associate, Systems Engineer

Job Title: Sr. Associate, Systems Engineer 

Job Code: 29383

Job Location: Greenville, TX

Schedule: 9/80

Job Description:

The Sr. Associate, Systems Engineer (SE) performs technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, and troubleshooting for total systems and/or subsystems. The System Eengineer is part of a team that supports the requirements, design, development, test, and integration of complex, specialized hardware/software systems installed on ground and airborne communication platforms.

Essential Functions:

• Understand physical architectures incorporating voice, video, and data capability across multiple security domains.
• Review and evaluate electrical wiring diagrams to ensure design details trace to system requirements.
• Understand test, integration, verification, and validation planning.
• Write effective verification test procedures ensuring system performance and capabilities meet system requirements.
• Translate the voice of the customer into system level requirements.
• Perform requirement traceability.
• Develop and evaluate trade studies for accuracy and completeness.
• Write subsystem specifications based on system level requirements.
• Evaluate alternative solutions and establish preliminary system designs.
• Prepare effective presentations to communicate technical information to non-technical professionals.
• Identify and solve problems using logical engineering thought processes.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, Visio and PowerPoint.
• Understand test, integration, verification, and validation planning.
• Write effective verification test procedures ensuring system performance and capabilities meet system requirements.
• Prepare effective presentations to communicate technical information to non-technical professionals.
• Working with subcontractors and U.S. Government customers.
• Engineering efforts involving FAA-certified general category aircraft.
• Hands-on with testing, integrating, and verifying software and/or hardware.
• Aircraft communication system integration and communications ground/flight test support.
• Knowledge of requirement traceability methods and purpose.
• Systems engineering trade study process.
• Writing subsystem specifications based on system level requirements.
• Conducting verification testing.
• Developing, authoring, and implementing system test plans.
• Excellent written, oral, and presentation communications skills.
• Willing and able to travel up to 10%.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience. Graduate Degree or equivalent with 0 to 2 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 6 years of prior related experience.

• Must have an active Secret Clearance at the time of hire with the ability to obtain a Top Secret with SCI.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Coursework and/or experience in systems engineering, systems architecture, systems analysis and design, system performance modeling, integration and/or project management, and/or model-based systems engineering 

• CompTIA Security+ Certification.
• Ability to successfully pass an FAA Class 3 Flight Physical and Altitude chamber to support test flights.
• Military EO/IR, Radar, RF, ECM, IRCM and/or Aircraft Self Protection Maintenance experience.
• Experienced using commands and operating in a Linux enviroment
• Experience with creating and training intries into DOORS and/or Jira