Position Overview

Key Responsibilities

Systems Requirements Development

• Lead customer engagement to understand operational use cases and translate them into high‑quality, actionable system requirements.
• Lead the definition, decomposition, allocation, and verification of system requirements throughout the product lifecycle.
• Oversee requirements capture, traceability, and formal documentation.
• Ensure accuracy, traceability, and regulatory compliance across all engineering documentation.
• Experience leading product qualification efforts, including developing bid strategies, defining qualification scope, estimating resources, and executing qualification plans to meet customer and regulatory requirements

Systems Architecture

• Ensure compliance with applicable military, aerospace, and industry standards.
• Partner across cross-functional engineering teams to define system architectures and embedded system specifications.
• Drive quality and usability of system architectures, ICDs, and CONOPS.

Integration

• Conduct trade studies, modeling, simulation, and analyses to support design decisions and optimize system performance.
• Serve as a technical point of contact with internal stakeholders, external partners, and customer agencies (e.g., NASA, DoD, FAA).
• Manage system-level risk identification, mitigation plans, and technical issue resolution.

Technical Leadership, Collaboration and Communication

• Work closely with leadership, engineering disciplines, IPTs QA, and program teams to meet schedule and technical objectives.
• Provide technical mentorship to junior engineers and support continuous improvement of systems engineering processes.
• Collaborate across engineering, operations, manufacturing, suppliers, and customers to ensure alignment and execution success.
• Communicate complex technical concepts effectively to both engineering and non‑engineering stakeholders.
• Represent the business in customer meetings, design reviews, and technical interchange sessions.

Continuous Improvement

• Stay current with emerging technologies, industry trends, and evolving best practices in embedded systems and avionics.
• Identify and champion opportunities to streamline processes, strengthen engineering rigor, and enhance product quality.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to organizational knowledge growth.

Qualifications

Educational Background

• Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Master’s degree in Systems Engineering or Electrical engineering a plus

Experience

• 7–10+ years of experience in aerospace systems engineering or related fields
• Demonstrated success delivering complex embedded systems products across the full engineering lifecycle.
• Experience operating as a technical leader in cross-functional engineering environments.

Technical Skills

• Advanced proficiency in requirements management processes and tools (e.g., DOORS, Jama, Polarion).
• Ability to interpret hardware schematics and review embedded software or firmware source code.
• Strong understanding of embedded architectures including FPGAs and microcontrollers.
• Familiarity with aerospace standards including DO‑178C (software) and DO‑254 (hardware) a plus.
• Experience with configuration management and modern systems engineering toolchains.
• Deep understanding of hardware-software interactions and real-time system constraints.
• Familiarity with systems engineering frameworks (INCOSE SE Handbook, MBSE, SysML, and Virtual Twin methods).
• Hands‑on experience in system integration and testing of aerospace hardware or software.
• Knowledge of system hardware/software development, integration and test for deployed military vehicle applications
• Working knowledge of engineering development tools like Clearquest, JIRA, and Rational Development Tools
• Solid understanding of SOSA and VPX system design standards
• Solid understanding of serial communication protocols such as MIL-STD-1553, RS422, RS485, RS232, 10G and 100G Gigabit Ethernet, PCIe, and USB
• Solid understanding of the latest processing and graphics solutions
• Excellent troubleshooting skills of rugged computing systems
• Ability to drive clarity to ambiguous requests or requirements
• Ability to work well in a fast-paced professional office environment

Communication & Leadership Skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proven ability to lead cross-disciplinary engineering efforts and collaborate effectively across teams.
• Confident presenting complex technical information to customers, leadership, and program stakeholders.

Teamwork & Problem Solving

• Strong analytical, diagnostic, and problem‑solving capabilities.
• Passion for helping customers identify right‑sized system solutions and delivering products that meet mission-critical needs.

Clearance Requirements

• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Security Clearance at the Secret level.
• Must be a U.S. person. as defined by ITAR.