Sr. Principal Weapons Systems Engineer

Location: Eglin Air Force Base, FL, USA

Work Location: onsite

• Preparing, facilitating, and conducting Systems Engineering and Technical Review (SETR) events on behalf of weapon system programs in the role of a systems engineering technical expert. These include Systems Requirements Reviews (SRR), Preliminary Design Reviews (PDR), and Critical Design Reviews (CDR).
• Assess contract data requirements list (CDRL) item completion, particularly for Design Artifacts, on weapon contracts on behalf of the government.
• Provide programmatic risk management advice to government materiel leaders.
• Evaluate system test plans for accomplishment of program and end-user needs. This includes lab, ground and flight-testing events.
• Experienced with Model-Based Systems Engineering design concepts.
• Adherence to the Dept of War’s Mission Engineering Guide in daily functions: "Deliberate planning, analyzing, organizing, and integrating of current and emerging operational and system capabilities to achieve desired warfighting mission effects.”
• Perform technical evaluations for government contract proposals.
• Clearly communicate with and/or brief senior military, contract, and civilian personnel.

• Master of Science degree in Aeronautical, Electrical, Systems, Software, or similar engineering field and 12+ years of relevant experience.
• Have extensive industry or government experience demonstrating and practicing their knowledge, skills, and abilities as a senior engineer and/or in technical program management.

• PhD in Aeronautical, Electrical, Systems, Software, or similar engineering field
• Master of Science degree in Aeronautical, Electrical, Systems, Software, or similar engineering field and 20+ years of relevant experience

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• Must be eligible for Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) access.