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Lead Systems Engineer - GM Defense

2 Locations💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-01 → 2026-09-25

Core

Lead a multidisciplinary team of Systems Engineers to define, decompose, and roll down system requirements for military-grade vehicle platforms, ensuring alignment with mission objectives and program goals.

Role type

Senior Lead Systems Engineer (Defense Vehicles)

Builds

Integrated defense vehicles, power and propulsion systems, and autonomy/connectivity solutions for global security customers.

Domain

Defense industry / Automotive Systems Engineering

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Systems engineering, requirements development and management, interface alignment, verification and validation planning, System DFMEA, Fault Tree Analysis, cross-functional leadership, risk identification and mitigation, availability target allocation, AI-enabled tools adoption.

Preferred skills

Experience with AI-enabled tools for requirements quality and traceability, knowledge of new processes for predicting and improving system availability.

Technologies

AI-enabled tools, mechanical systems, electrical systems, controls systems.

Responsibilities

Lead team in requirements decomposition and roll-down; ensure subsystem interfaces and verification plans align with mission objectives; drive system-level integration across disciplines; oversee interface definition and requirements traceability; create System DFMEA and lead Fault Tree Analysis; collaborate on V&V plans; lead integration and issue resolution through the development cycle; set and allocate availability targets; apply AI tools to improve requirements processes.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with people leadership

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