Principal/Senior Principal Systems Engineer
Core
Lead systems engineering, integration, verification, and validation for advanced tactical mission systems, translating requirements into complete system solutions and managing hardware-software interfaces.
Role type
Principal/Senior Principal Systems Engineer
Builds
Advanced tactical mission systems and family-wide software product lines
Domain
Defense & Aerospace (Ground Systems)
Required skills
Systems engineering, Systems integration, Requirements engineering, Verification and validation, Model-Based Systems Engineering, Interface control documents, Agile workflows, Use-case modeling, Stakeholder coordination
Preferred skills
Jira, Confluence, DOORS, Cameo, Hardware integration
Technologies
Confluence, JIRA, DOORS, Cameo
Responsibilities
Perform systems engineering, integration, verification, and validation across total systems throughout their lifecycle. Translate customer or product requirements into complete system solutions while accounting for technical and schedule constraints. Lead engineering for a family-wide software product line, defining, developing, and integrating reusable components. Connect hardware and software engineering by ensuring system requirements and interface control documents are consistently captured and validated. Elicit, analyze, and document functional and non-functional system requirements. Maintain traceability between requirements and design, implementation, and verification artifacts. Lead requirements reviews with hardware, firmware, quality assurance, product management, and other stakeholders.
Seniority
Principal/Senior Principal, hands-on IC with strategic oversight