Staff Engineer

What you will do as a staff engineer

• Support the design, development, integration, test, qualification, and implementation of complex underwater and undersea systems.
• Develop, analyze, document, and manage system, subsystem, hardware, software, and interface requirements.
• Translate customer needs, operational concepts, and mission requirements into measurable engineering requirements and system performance criteria.
• Perform system-level engineering evaluations and trade studies to assess design alternatives, technical risks, performance, cost, and schedule impacts.
• Support engineering design reviews, including System Requirements Reviews (SRR), System Functional Reviews (SFR), Preliminary Design Reviews (PDR), Critical Design Reviews (CDR), Test Readiness Reviews (TRR), and other program technical reviews.
• Support the development, procurement, assembly, integration, and testing of advanced prototypes to inform engineering decisions and demonstrate system performance.
• Analyze engineering and test data, identify performance trends and anomalies, and develop recommendations for system improvements.
• Support failure investigations, root cause analysis, corrective-action development, and system troubleshooting.
• Identify and manage technical risks, requirements issues, interface conflicts, and integration challenges while developing coordinated system-level solutions.

Staff engineer required skills/experience

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Ocean Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
• 5-7 years of recent and relevant engineering experience supporting complex systems development.
• Demonstrated experience applying systems engineering principles to the development, integration, and testing of complex engineered systems.
• Experience with requirements decomposition, traceability, verification, validation, and technical baseline management.
• Strong problem-solving skills and demonstrated ability to manage multiple technical issues while developing integrated system-level solutions.
• Ability to prepare and communicate technical information during customer meetings and formal engineering design reviews.
• Candidates selected may be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

Preferred skills/experience

• Understanding of underwater system operating environments, including hydrostatic pressure, hydrodynamic loading, corrosion, shock, vibration, temperature, watertight integrity, and marine environmental considerations.
• Experience integrating mechanical, electrical, software, communications, navigation, sensing, control, and payload subsystems into a complete underwater system.
• Experience developing system architectures, functional block diagrams, interface control documents (ICDs), requirements specifications, and verification cross-reference matrices.
• Familiarity with model-based systems engineering practices.
• Working knowledge of mechanical engineering principles including fluid mechanics, structural mechanics, thermal analysis, materials, and environmental loading as they apply to underwater systems.
• Demonstrated ability to understand mission objectives and operational concepts and translate them into practical system requirements and engineering solutions.

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