Lead, Systems Engineer

Job Description

Essential Functions

• Serve as the primary engineering point of contact for assigned Customer Platforms.
• Attend and lead engineering participation in recurring Technical Interchange Meetings (TIMs), customer meetings, program reviews, and technical briefings.
• Lead the investigation, prioritization, coordination, and resolution of Customer-reported operational issues, ensuring timely technical communication and appropriate escalation.
• Coordinate cross-functional engineering teams to assess impacts, establish corrective actions, manage technical risks, and verify resolution of fielded-system issues.
• Plan and support flight test, integration, verification, qualification, and operational test events at customer locations.
• Lead systems engineering support for new software releases, including requirements assessment, configuration and interface impact analysis, release readiness, deployment coordination, and post-release issue resolution.
• Lead DMSMS and obsolescence efforts for supported systems, coordinating with suppliers, program management, logistics, and design engineering to develop technically sound and cost-effective mitigation plans.
• Maintain technical awareness of Customer Platform configurations, operational environments, interfaces, open issues, risks, and planned upgrades.
• Develop and maintain systems engineering artifacts, including requirements, interface control documents, technical assessments, test plans, verification cross-reference matrices, release documentation, and risk registers.
• Provide technical leadership across engineering disciplines, guiding work priorities and reviewing technical products to ensure quality, completeness, and compliance with program processes.
• Identify and implement improvements to sustainment engineering processes, issue-management workflows, release practices, and customer communication methods that improve program and operational outcomes.
• Prepare and present technical recommendations, status, risks, and resolution plans to customers, program leadership, engineering leadership, and senior stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline, with a minimum of 9 years of prior relevant experience; or a graduate degree with a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience.
• In lieu of a degree, a minimum of 13 years of prior related experience.

Preferred Additional Skills

• Demonstrated experience leading complex systems engineering, integration, verification, sustainment, or lifecycle-support efforts with minimal oversight.
• Experience serving as a technical interface with military customers, platform operators, or operational users.
• Experience supporting airborne, space, ground, tactical, satellite, or line-of-sight communications systems.
• Experience with fielded-system sustainment, operational issue resolution, software release management, DMSMS, and configuration management.
• Experience planning or supporting flight test, system integration, verification, qualification, or customer-site test events.
• Strong knowledge of requirements management, interface management, risk management, technical planning, and verification and validation.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams, customers, suppliers, and subcontractors without formal management authority.
• Experience with tools such as DOORS or similar requirements-management tools, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, and Visio.

Job Schedule

• 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days totaling 80 hours worked and have every other Friday off.

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