Lead Systems Engineer

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Job Title: Lead, Systems Engineer

Job Code: 44796

Job Location: Mason, OH

Job Schedule: 9/80 - Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

As a Systems Engineer Lead in our IR sensors business area, you will have the opportunity to work various programs solving our customer’s most difficult technical challenges . A Development SME, who supports planning activities to address development activity processes and procedures. You could be the technical lead of the program team, perform technical planning, design, analysis, implementation, system integration, validation and verification. Analyses are performed at all levels to include concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, maintenance, and disposal. This position supports the Missile Solutions (MSL) Segment, a great team of talented professionals with world class technical expertise who take a collaborative approach to engineering and enjoy working together. We have a long history of innovative and exceptional performance; we have earned our place as a trusted provider to our customers.

Essential Functions:

• Systems engineering lead for EO/IR (Electro-Optical/Infra-Red) sensor systems.
• Lead technical planning, system integration, validation, and verification activities in support of programs and development efforts.
• Expected to coach / mentor others on the team.
• Judgement and Decision Making — Consider the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate solution.
• Systems Analysis — Determine how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes / performance.
• Systems Evaluation — Identify measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance relative to the goals of the system.
• Lead across system development lifecycle.
• Customer Interaction – Technical Point of Contact to our customers and our suppliers.
• Must have the ability to obtain a US Secret security clearance

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Electronics, Computer, Physics, or related Engineering discipline with a minimum of 9 years of prior relevant experience or Graduate Degree with a minimum of 7 years prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior related experience.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Demonstrated experience leading a team or project within the EO/IR (Electro-Optical/Infra-Red) sensor field
• Demonstrated experience in a technical discipline supporting EO/IR sensor or component work
• Experience writing BOEs and supporting proposals
• Demonstrated experience in Model Based Systems Engineering
• Demonstrated experience in the architecture, specification, implementation, simulation, test, verification, validation, and debugging
• Demonstrated complex problem solving and decision making — Able to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions; able to consider the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate solution
• Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work well within and outside of the organization including customers, vendors, and leadership with minimal oversight
• Prior systems engineering experience on at least two DoD (or similar) programs, with at least one program being a medium scale complex system or subsystem (i.e., > 10 System Engineers and/or >$15M).
• Knowledge of military and/or NASA component specifications, design processes, and hardware test/verification procedures.
• Active US Secret Security Clearance

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Please be aware many of our positions require the ability to obtain a security clearance. Security clearances may only be granted to U.S. citizens. In addition, applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment may be subject to government security investigation(s) and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

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