Job Details

Seeking a talented Senior or Principal Systems Engineer (depending on years of experience in systems Engineering) to work in systems engineering team to lead US Government (USG) Department of Defense (DOD) full system engineering efforts in program and product development. In this role, you will work to understand customer needs, identify & manage performance requirements, and provide overall customer satisfaction. You will contribute technical expertise, drive innovation, oversee all technical work, including setting, maintaining design Specifications and requirements, and incorporating the latest design methods and tools to improve internal and external design practices. You will provide technical leadership in all phases of product development, including product definition, architecture, design, layout, and production support.

Primary work location can be either: Billerica, MA or Wilsonville, OR.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

• Lead full-system technical activities on medium-to-large product or program development efforts through the complete life cycle.
• Serve as the technical conscience (Chief Engineer) of the program, leading technical dialogue with customer counterparts throughout all program phases.
• Develop and maintain Systems Engineering Management Plans (SEMPs).
• Create and manage project and product specifications.
• Provide technical and schedule risk assessments to the program office.
• Oversee subsystem specification flow-down; perform requirements analysis and decomposition; ensure requirements are verifiable and testable; allocate requirements to lower-level specifications; and manage requirements tracking and compliance through design and test phases.
• Translate and interpret customer specifications to the project engineering team throughout the design and test phases of the program.
• Provide systems engineering leadership to ensure optical, mechanical, software, and electrical designs conform to overall system requirements.
• Work closely with program and project management to ensure compliance with specifications and on-time delivery within budget.
• Ensure technical activities remain within program scope.
• Lead technical efforts for major program reviews, including Program Kickoff Meetings (KOMs), System Requirements Reviews (SRRs), Preliminary Design Reviews (PDRs), Critical Design Reviews (CDRs), Test Readiness Reviews (TRRs), and Production Readiness Reviews (PRRs).
• Track Key Performance Parameters (KPPs) and generate and manage action plans to ensure compliance.
• Make significant contributions to technical presentations, technical reports, analyses, and customer proposals.
• Integrate innovative technical solutions to satisfy market and customer requirements, including performance, cost, manufacturability, quality, and time to market.
• Coordinate with external vendors on technical matters for both standard and custom products and development efforts.
• Contribute as a core member of the program or product development leadership team.
• Lead and contribute to the development of new Electro-Optical / Infrared (EO/IR) sensor products, including concept definition, radiometric system design and analysis, imaging characterization, image non-uniformity correction, optical engineering, performance modeling, and prototype performance validation.
• Perform optical analyses and/or lead optical systems development for product groups.
• Create system specifications and test plans with emphasis on sensor technology, optical systems, and system integration and test; flow down system specifications to subsystems.
• Lead or oversee DoD system verification, validation, and qualification activities; develop test plans and procedures that verify all system and subordinate requirements; ensure test plans and procedures are achievable, practical, and affordable; and lead failure analysis, root cause determination, and corrective actions resulting from qualification testing.
• Plan systems engineering staffing across all phases of the program; collaborate with engineering and quality disciplines on staffing recommendations.
• Lead extensive laboratory testing and qualification efforts for new and existing optical systems and infrared sensor products; develop test plans, perform data collection, analyze data, and document results.
• Provide business development support including new customer requirements analysis, proposal writing, sensor performance modeling, and responses to technical inquiries.
• Provide systems engineering support to manufacturing, transition-to-production activities, and customer service organizations; take a leading role in troubleshooting technical issues.
• Mentor engineers, technicians, and others supporting similar technical efforts.
• Contribute to intellectual property development and author or substantially contribute to technical papers.
• Lead and contribute to new technology investigations, system trade studies, technical surveys, and competitive product analyses, as requested.
• Perform other job‑related duties as required.

Job Qualifications:

• Due to program requirements, you MUST be a U.S. Citizen
• Bachelor of Science (BS) in engineering
• For Principal Systems Engineer level: 12+ years of direct systems engineering experience, including 12+ years on DoD development programs. For Senior Systems Engineer level: 8+ years of direct Systems Engineering experience, including 8+ years on DoD development programs.
• Good understanding of Gimbal surveillance product development cycle
• Full system engineering experience in development of large and complex products with EO/IR imaging sensors, Laser tracking & detection, fine and sophisticated mechanical and control subsystems, gimbal systems etc. DOD/Space system engineering experience is a plus.
• Strong experience and capability in leading a multi‑discipline engineering and quality team on new product development from conceptual stage to PDR, CDR and to Low‑Rate Initial Production (LRIP).
• Demonstrated experience in developing, maintaining, and tracking specification and requirements compliance matrix, risk identification and risk mitigation.
• Experience in system modeling, analysis, design, and troubleshooting.
• Experience in EO/IR imaging sensor/imaging system modelling, characterization, and test
• Experience in leading or participating multidisciplinary engineering efforts (Mechanical, Thermal, electrical, firmware/software etc.)
• Good communications skills and experience presenting to senior management.
• Good understanding of Laser rangefinder, Laser designator and their applications
• Must be able to obtain US Gov SECRET security clearance.