Principal Systems Engineer

This is a Contract-to-Hire position

As part of our Systems Engineering team, you’ll join a diverse group of driven professionals who design the products and systems that support enhanced military capabilities, protect national security, and keep critical information and infrastructure secure. With us, you’ll be able to make an impact while you hone your skills and grow in your career. We are currently looking for experienced Systems Engineers with the ability to support our Combat Vehicle and Naval Guns Product Lines.

Here we value our workforce and their well-being. We prioritize safety, work life balance, and offer competitive benefits. This position is currently working on-site out of either our Minneapolis, MN or Sterling Heights, MI offices.

As a Principal Systems Engineer, you will:

• Lead or support requirements development and management.
• Develop subsystem and component performance specifications by analyzing and deriving necessary requirements.
• Develop and maintain requirements verification and compliance, and supporting artifacts.
• Coordinate and facilitate architecture development of assigned system, subsystems, and components.
• Support development and maintenance of interface requirements and interface design information for assigned sub-system, system and components.
• Document concept design decisions and support generating System/Subsystem Design Descriptions (SSDDs) and capability assessments.
• Coordinate and facilitate formal decisions and trade studies to drive design and document results.
• Support the execution and monitoring of cost, schedule, and risk.
• Coordinate Systems Engineering activities to influence the design.
• Support vehicle level Systems Engineering activities and program milestone reviews.

Skills Required

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering and 6+ year’s relevant experience.
• Systems engineering experience performing requirements analysis, derivation and allocation, and translating requirements to viable concepts design solutions within applicable constraints.
• Experience developing architecture concepts and evaluating alternatives.
• Ability to balance system design considering system concept of operations (CONOPS), performance, constraints, and logistics concerns.
• Ability to plan, conduct, and document complex trade studies.
• Ability to generate System/Subsystem Design Descriptions (SSDDs) and capability assessments per the program statement of work (SOW).
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

Skills Preferred

• Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering or Electrical Engineering with a Master’s degree in Systems Engineering.
• Experience with military vehicle systems.
• Logical architecture experience, including development of use cases.
• Experience in Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), including SysML methodology and tools like Cameo.
• Familiarity with Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF).
• Experience with DOORS requirements management tool.
• Have and maintain INCOSE Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP) certification.
• Leadership and mentoring of younger engineers.

Experience

• Support requirements development and management.
• Experience with DOORS requirements management tool.