Lead Systems Realization Engineer

Role overview

Key responsibilities

• Shape strategic weapon-system architectures by integrating digital engineering with structural, thermal, flight-dynamics, and reliability analyses in Cameo or MagicDraw.
• Lead and defend multidisciplinary engineering analyses, including structural-thermal, electromagnetic, nuclear surety, logistics, and statistical margin studies.
• Establish technical standards for system design, risk mitigation, and verification, and provide analyses and trade studies for program decisions.
• Embed quantitative analysis, parametric constraints, and performance budgets in a unified digital baseline with traceability from operational requirements through test data reduction.
• Deliver technical briefings and decision-ready reports to military sponsors, national laboratories, and prime contractors.
• Guide multidisciplinary teams across government, industry, and academia, building consensus through analytical rigor and technical integrity.

Core expectations

• Proven record leading design and analysis across multiple hard-science engineering domains, such as mechanical, electrical, aerospace, nuclear, chemical, or materials engineering.
• Extensive expertise developing, modifying, or coupling high-fidelity physics-based, logistics-based, or statistical models and simulations.
• Active hands-on proficiency in Cameo Enterprise Architect or MagicDraw using SysML for analytical architectures, trade studies, parametric constraints, and system realization.
• Deep command of the systems engineering lifecycle and ability to translate sponsor missions into verified physical solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor analysts, challenge assumptions productively, and guide technical specialists.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in aerospace, mechanical, electrical/electronic, nuclear, chemical, or materials engineering, or an applied physical science.
• At least 10 years of quantitative engineering design and analysis experience, including at least five years in a senior or lead technical capacity focused on complex physical systems.
• Hands-on experience authoring and maintaining system architecture products in Cameo Enterprise Architect or MagicDraw using SysML.

Compensation

• Salary range is $100,000–$245,000 per year.