Staff Engineer Systems - Hardware Integration Lead - 19392
$169,000–$253,600 year
On-siteHuntsville, Alabama, United States
Job Summary
Lead the SLCM-N hardware integration during the Technology Maturation and Risk Reduction phase, providing technical leadership for complex, shipboard hardware assemblies. Manage technical planning, requirements development, allocation, and traceability for integrated electromechanical assemblies while reviewing model-based systems engineering artifacts to ensure baseline alignment. Oversee verification and validation strategy development, including test plans and acceptance criteria, and execute system integration planning with support for lab integration and anomaly resolution. Drive technical rigor in functional analysis, trade studies, and risk assessments to support design decisions while collaborating with cross-functional IPTs to ensure designs are producible and testable. Provide subject matter expertise on the technical baseline during senior-level reviews and mentor early-career engineers in engineering best practices. This 9/80 schedule role requires a US Citizen with a Secret Clearance and ability to obtain Top Secret/SAP approval.
Required Qualifications
- Relocation assistance may be available
- Clearance required for start: Yes
- Clearance type: Secret
- Travel: Yes, 10% of the time
- US Citizen
- Active DoD Secret Clearance, at time of application, current and within scope, with an investigation date within the last 6 years
- Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Top Secret Clearance and Special Access Program (SAP) approval within a reasonable period of time
- Experience applying systems engineering processes across the full lifecycle (concept through test and integration) for complex hardware-intensive or weapon systems, including requirements development, decomposition, and verification
- Experience in conceptual design and development including rapid prototyping and testing to support fast-paced missile development
- Bachelors degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline from an accredited university and 12 years of relevant experience
- Masters degree and 10 years of relevant experience
- PhD and 8 years of relevant experience
Desired Qualifications
- Active DoD Top Secret Clearance
- Electromechanical system design and development experience, including support to manufacturing, integration, and test of complex hardware assemblies
- Demonstrated ability to lead design teams on fast-paced development and prototyping efforts
- Strong communication skills (written and oral) and the ability to convey critical thinking to others in a way that improves their performance and product development
- Multidisciplined technical breadth across systems, hardware, software, and specialty engineering (e.g., reliability, safety, logistics) for complex defense systems
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