Scientist – Systems Engineering

Job Title: Scientist, Systems Engineering

Job Code: 45359

Job Location: Rockwall, TX

Job Schedule: 9/80 - Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

Perform as part of a team that supports the requirements, design, development, test, and integration of complex, specialized hardware/software systems installed on ground and airborne ISR and communication platforms. 

Essential Functions:

• < 10% during development phases to an excess of 50% during integration, testing, and delivery, travel based on business needs.
• Design and develop physical architectures incorporating voice, video, and data capability across multiple security domains. 
• Ability to translate customer requests and CONOPS into system-level requirements and ensure proper requirement traceability throughout the program lifecycle.
• Write subsystem specifications based on system-level requirements and evaluate alternative solutions to establish preliminary system designs.
• Review and evaluate electrical wiring diagrams to ensure design details trace to system requirements.
• Develop, author, and implement software and system test plans in a collaborative team environment.
• Develop integration, test, and verification scenarios using Link 22 simulation equipment in support of SW development, integration, and test efforts.
• Work in an agile engineering environment.

Qualifications:

• Active US TS/SCI security clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering Technology and minimum 12 years of prior relevant experience (Software Engineer also considered with relevant experience).
• Graduate Degree and a minimum of 10 years of prior related experience.
• In lieu of a degree, a minimum of 16 years of prior related experience.
• Demonstrated experience with core Systems Engineering requirements development, decomposition, traceability, verification, and validation, with the ability to translate customer and stakeholder needs into clear, testable, and compliant system requirements.
• Demonstrated experience as a Lead Systems Engineer for quick-reaction ISR capabilities to include full mission system architecture redesign, sensor system replacements and upgrades, including FAA STC certification activities.
• Demonstrated experience working in complex technical environments.
• Demonstrated experience integrating with modernized software defined V/UHF software defined radio systems.

Preferred Additional Skills

• Security+ Certified.
• Experience working with domestic and foreign subcontractors, and foreign customers.
• Experience testing, integrating, and verifying hardware and/or software systems.
• Experience with obtaining and maintaining a government network ATO (Authorization to Operate).

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