Our client, a leading federal defense contractor is seeking a Sr. Systems Engineer responsible for the requirements analysis, requirements definition, requirements management, functional analysis, performance analysis, system architecture and design, detail trade studies, systems integration, and test (verification), validation and interface definition studies of system, subsystem or system elements with little or no supervision.

The position is 100% Onsite in Canonsburg, PA.

Responsibilities:

- Work with the Chief Engineer to make critical decisions on architecture, design, and technology choices and be the technical beacon for the program working with cross functional teams to ensure that customer requirements are correctly analyzed, system requirements are developed and allocated to lower levels (subsystem, elements, and components).
- Collaborate across the functional teams to resolve issues and recommend solutions to ensure that the system meets requirements with the performance needed for deployment.
- Support the set-up, configuration, and documentation of hardware and software systems under test, including loading software onto multiple devices.
- Support design, development, and implementation of cost-effective procedures for testing and troubleshooting of components, sub-assemblies, assemblies, and systems.
- Support development of test plans, test procedures, requirements traceability, test reports, test flow, and test case design and implementation
- Document testing issues and failures and perform analysis of test results.
- Support formal systems acceptance testing activities.
- Support failure investigation activities and failure review board (FRB) meetings.

Required Skills

- Must be US Citizen due to government requirement
- Must be able and willing to obtain a DoD Secret Clearance (active Secret is preferred at time of hire)
- Requires a Bachelor-s degree in STEM field and 8+ years of job-related experience, or a Master's degree plus 6 years of job-related experience.

Experience with any of the following:

a. Design and development of underwater vehicles
b. System performance, requirements, and change management
c. Complex HW, FPGA, Embedded SW, and vehicle design and qualification
d. DoD, Cyber and Environmental qualification
e. Torpedo Guidance and Control systems
f. Experience developing common architectures, architecture trade studies, MOSA, standard interfaces, etc.-
- Demonstrate strong strategic and architectural vision.
- Demonstrated skill driving the system-level requirements down to the design and test levels.
- Demonstrate leadership skills on complex programs with multi-disciplinary engineering teams, push technological boundaries, lead complex projects, and mentor teams.
- Demonstrate technical excellence in systems engineering.- You are viewed as a technical lead with wide experience of a broad range of relevant development technologies, and proven ability to responsibly assess the cost, schedule, and risk in your planning.
- Demonstrated use and understanding of systems engineering strategies, principles, and measures.
- Establishment and presentation of test strategies, plans, and results to internal and external customers