Job Summary General Atomics (GA), and its affiliated companies, is one of the world’s leading resources for high-technology systems development ranging from the nuclear fuel cycle to remotely piloted aircraft, airborne sensors, and advanced electric, electronic, wireless and laser technologies.

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) is a supplier of advanced electromagnetic systems, related power equipment and other high technology products for a variety of government and commercial applications. These include products such as the design and fabrication of linear motors, superconducting and conventional rotating motors, power inverters, high-energy capacitors, radiation monitoring systems, high-voltage direct current power distribution systems, and numerous other products.

We have an exciting opportunity in our Aerospace Systems Engineering directorate for a full-time Senior Systems Engineer (SE) to serve as a lead Systems Engineer (SE) on a variety of aerospace development programs and products. The Senior SE will also serve as a SE mentor to the Aerospace Systems. The successful candidate will provide technical expertise to multi-disciplinary teams that may be geographically distributed between Huntsville, AL, Centennial, CO, Fredericksburg, VA, and/or San Diego, CA. This position is located in Huntsville, AL.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide expert systems engineering expertise for a multi-disciplinary team delivering SE support for cutting edge missile, projectile, spacecraft and hypersonic vehicle development projects
• Collaborate daily with GA and customer engineering and program management teams
• Lead process to elicit stakeholder needs from government and industry customers to define Concept of Operations, System Architecture, and Systems Engineering approach for weapon system projects
• Lead development of requirements from system level down to component level to include both hardware and software configuration items
• Lead development of verification cross-reference matrices, verification statements, and collection of objective evidence to verify requirements have been met
• Facilitate the development of mechanical, electrical, and logical Interface Control Documents (ICDs) for weapon system applications to include conducting working group meetings, outlining the document content, eliciting inputs from other engineering disciplines, and editing and review documents as part of the release process
• Lead and support the planning, development and execution of major program technical reviews including System Requirements Reviews, Preliminary Design Reviews, and Critical Design Reviews to include defining entrance and exit criteria; overseeing collection and review of objective evidence; developing and reviewing presentation materials; coordinating meeting logistics with customers, security, facilities, and other organizations as needed; tracking design review action items through closure
• Lead Systems Engineering Working Groups to refine SE work products such as CONOPS documents, ICDs, requirements documents, system budgets and subsystem allocations, etc.
• Lead and support Risk and Opportunity Management activities including development of risk registers and mitigation plans
• Lead definition and tracking of Key Performance Parameters, Technical Performance Metrics and other similar technical measures of health/progress for weapon system projects
• Support development and review of systems engineering content for proposals, Request For Information (RFI) responses, and other technical white papers
• Collaborate closely with Design Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Flight Software) and Assembly, Integration and Test (AI&T) teams for weapon system development, prototyping, and test activities
• Demonstrate strong communication skills with and between customers, team members, task leads, functional managers, and program management to facilitate rapid resolution of technical and program issues
• Serve as the lead systems engineer on one or more development projects
• Make technical presentations during working groups and peer reviews, or to senior management or customers, as required
• Mentor less experienced systems engineers in SE best practices; socialize and ingrain sound SE processes into the local engineering team culture and project execution
• Perform other duties as required

We recognize and appreciate the value and contributions of individuals with diverse backgrounds and experiences and welcome all qualified individuals to apply.


Job Qualifications:

• Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree, Master’s degree, or PhD in engineering or a related technical discipline from an accredited institution and progressive engineering experience as follows: nine or more years of experience with a Bachelor’s degree; seven or more years with a Master’s degree; four or more years with a PhD. May substitute equivalent engineering experience in lieu of education.
• Must have a thorough and broad understanding of engineering concepts and principles, and the ability to apply those concepts to development of cutting edge aerospace systems
• Understanding of tactical guided missiles, projectiles, or hypersonic vehicles and their subsystems and the engineering disciplines that support them is required.
• Strong experience with classical systems engineering methods and industry application of those methods, is required.
• Strong experience using one or more classical requirements management tools such as DOORS, Jama, CORE etc. is required
• The ability and desire to teach and mentor other Systems Engineers is required.
• Strong experience with Model Based Systems Engineering and the Cameo/MagicDraw suite of tools including is highly desired
• Experience developing inputs to proposals, white papers, and requests for information (RFIs) is highly desirable
• INCOSE Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP) is desirable
• OMG-Certified Systems Modeling Language (SysML) Professional (OCSMP) certifications (SysML Model User, SysML Model Builder Fundamental, SysML Model Builder Intermediate, SysML Model Builder Advanced) is desirable
• Success in this position requires consistent application of the following key abilities:
  • Demonstration of a positive attitude, strong initiative and work ethic, and ability to multi-task
  • Achieving good results and delivering solid products with minimum time expenditure
  • Exceptional interpersonal, communication, computer, and presentation skills
  • Able to collaborate as part of a team, as well as accomplish tasks independently with minimal direct supervision
  • Rapid and effective problem solving
• Able to work extended hours as required
• Travel expectation: <20%
• Must possess active DOD Secret security clearance with ability to obtain Top Secret if required

Salary:$105,890 - $189,545