JOB TITLE: Sr Advanced Systems Engineer
JOB LOCATION: Canonsburg, PA
WAGE RANGE*: 70-72
JOB NUMBER: 25-03134

JOB DESCRIPTION: Our client, a large defense contractor, has an immediate opening for a Sr Advanced Systems Engineer to work from their Canonsburg, PA facility. As a Senior Advanced Systems Engineer, you will be 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. You will 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). You will collaborate across the functional teams to resolve issues and recommend solutions to ensure that the system meets requirements with the performance needed for deployment.

QUALIFICATIONS: Requires a Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, or a related Science, Engineering or Mathematics field. Also requires 8+ years of job-related experience, or a Master's degree plus 6 years of job-related experience. Must have past systems engineering or test engineering background, as well as experience with leadership and management of project execution.

CLEARANCE REQUIREMENTS: Department of Defense Secret security clearance is preferred at time of hire, but is required within a reasonable period of time. Applicants selected will be subject to a U.S. Government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Due to the nature of work performed within our facilities, U.S. citizenship is required.

We encourage you to apply if you have any of have these skills or experiences:

• Experience in the following:
  • Design and development of underwater vehicles
  • System performance, requirements, and change management
  • Complex HW, FPGA, Embedded SW, and vehicle design and qualification
  • DoD, Cyber and Environmental qualification
  • Torpedo Guidance and Control systems
  • 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
• 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.

What sets you apart:

• Technical credibility; demonstrated through past experiences internally and with customer communities.
• Proficiency in establishing trade study problem statements and evaluation criteria.
• Demonstrated effective risk identification, analysis, mitigation, and problem-solving abilities.
• Demonstrated system, hardware, and software integration experience.
• Demonstrated technical excellence in engineering solutions to DoD customer requirements .
• Experience in preparation of cost and schedule estimates for design tasks.
• Strong presentation and communications skills with experience in the art of negotiation and the ability to meet challenging customer requirements with win-win solutions.
• Refined brokering skills, regularly achieving consensus among stakeholders.
• Collaborating effectively with others; along with building teams that excel through GDMS values.

Workplace Options:
This position is ON-SITE in Canonsburg, PA

Equal opportunity employer as to all protected groups, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities

* While an hourly range is posted for this position, an eventual hourly rate is determined by a comprehensive salary analysis which considers multiple factors including but not limited to: job-related knowledge, skills and qualifications, education and experience as compared to others in the organization doing substantially similar work, if applicable, and market and business considerations. Benefits offered include medical, dental and vision benefits; dependent care flexible spending account; 401(k) plan; voluntary life/short term disability/whole life/term life/accident and critical illness coverage; employee assistance program; sick leave in accordance with regulation. Benefits may be subject to generally applicable eligibility, waiting period, contribution, and other requirements and conditions. Benefits offered are in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws and subject to change at TCM's discretion.PDN-9f6cf496-2924-4a51-a22b-aa3a2411be42