SEA Systems Engineer 2

Systems Engineer 2

Location: Woodland Hills, California (Onsite)

Employment Type: Contract

Clearance: Must be willing to obtain and hold a secret clearance

Role Overview

A position is available for a Systems Engineer 2 to support a Systems Engineering department. This role involves leading cross-functional teams, managing configuration baselines, and ensuring the successful transition of hardware-software systems to production. This position will serve on-site.

Key Responsibilities

• Be responsible for the technical baseline development by capturing, analyzing, and finalizing the functional and performance requirements baseline; maintain full traceability and confirm verifiability ahead of design reviews.
• Develop functional and physical system architectures, conduct trade-off studies, and select optimal solutions that advance system maturity toward production readiness.
• Organize and lead internal design-review meetings; facilitate external sessions with customers, suppliers, and other partners, collecting feedback and driving corrective actions.
• Collaborate with integration and test teams on schedules, maintain Interface Control Documents (ICDs), and create comprehensive test verification matrices.
• Lead verification execution, analyze test and analysis results, resolve discrepancies, and close verification loops to satisfy baseline requirements and subsequent system qualification.
• Manage baseline configuration items, enforce version control, and conduct impact analyses for changes throughout system verification and validation.
• Author and maintain critical artifacts such as System Requirements Documents, ICDs, Design Descriptions, Test Plans, and Risk Registers.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers and participate in cross-functional teams to ensure alignment with program objectives.

Required Qualifications

Clearance: Must be willing and able to maintain a Secret clearance

Experience: Demonstrated systems-engineering experience, preferably in aerospace or defense.

Technical Skills: Proficient with systems-engineering tools such as DOORS, CAMEO, MATLAB, or comparable software.

Additional Skills: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with an ability to interpret complex data. Excellent written and verbal communication. Collaborative team player with meticulous attention to detail.

Preferred Qualifications

Clearance: A DOD Secret clearance is required for this position.

• Solid understanding of inertial navigation and related products.
• Proven track record executing program milestones, including Systems Requirements Review (SRR), System Functional Review (SFR), Preliminary Design Review (PDR), and Critical Design Review (CDR).

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