Systems Engineer

About This Role

**Please note that this is an on-site position located in Binghamton, NY, and an ACTIVE secret or higher clearance is required**

**Relocation assistance will be provided if applicable**

Are you ready for a rewarding opportunity? We are seeking an ambitious systems engineering professional to join our team on-site at our Binghamton, NY, location. The successful candidate will have the ability to take ownership of hard problems and drive to a solution, while working in a team environment. This role is for a candidate who is self-motivated, exhibits a positive approach, has a strong work ethic, and demonstrates strategic big picture thinking.

What We Have to Offer:

• Comprehensive and competitive benefits package and flexibility that promotes work-life balance
• A work environment where all employees are valued, respected, and safe
• Freedom to succeed by enabling team members to deliver, take initiatives, and make decisions
• Recognition, professional development, advancement, and having fun!

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Technical responsibilities include:

• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to establish architecture content and develop solutions that achieve customer needs.
• Work in a team environment, throughout the lifecycle of the program, using either Waterfall or Agile methodologies.
• Conduct engineering system development tasks, including system requirements analysis, system architecture and design, preliminary design, critical design, system integration support, test procedure development, formal verification, and formal validation.
• Interpret and analyze customer requirements and CONOPS, defining the system-level architecture, and allocating subsystem requirements.
• Perform system-level analyses, determine and undertake necessary trade studies, define and allocate the functional requirements to subsystem.
• Understand and implement systems engineering processes on programs and projects.
• Create and update essential engineering documents, including specifications, reports, plans, technical memos, and presentations.
• Ensure all program requirements are met, program risks are identified and mitigated, and company processes are followed.

Qualifications and Education Requirements

*Must have an active DoD Secret or higher clearance that has been granted or renewed in the last 5 years.*

• BS in Electrical Engineering, or other technical field, or equivalent education and work experience.
• Minimum of 10 years of systems experience.
• Experience supporting military or defense programs.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal skills, and the ability to interface with all levels of employees and management.
• Experience with the full Systems Development Life Cycle.
• Strong critical thinking and logical reasoning skills with the ability to solve issues and predict potential programmatic and technical risks.
• Proven track record of building relationships, fostering collaboration, and working cross-functionally with multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience with requirements derivation, capability development, analyzing complex requirements, and determining viable solutions.
• Demonstrated experience interpreting customer needs into achievable requirements or capabilities.
• Ability to decompose customer requirements into capabilities that can then be decomposed by the development teams.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain Special Program Access prior to the start of employment.
• Flexibility to support occasional overtime, weekend work, shift work, and site travel (CONUS)
• Due to U.S. Government contract requirements, only U.S. citizens are eligible for this role.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) tools, including SysML, Rhapsody, Magic Draw, and/or Cameo.
• Experience in Open Mission Systems/Universal Command and Control Interface (OMS/UCI).
• Familiarity with open system architectures (ex: ASPN, CMOSS, PNTOS, JADC2).
• Working knowledge of industry standards such as MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-461, MIL-STD-704, for airworthiness, ARINC and RTCA standards are preferred.
• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) knowledge and experience.
• Experience using modeling resources. Experience using Agile tool sets (JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, etc.).
• Experience using earned value management systems to manage a team's cost and schedule performance.
• Experience with Software Change Control, Change Management, and CI/CD tools such as: Atlassian tool suite, GitHub, GitLab, AND/OR Jenkins.
• Demonstrated mentoring and coaching skills, and excellent 2-way communication skills (upward and downward).
• Time management and organizational skills to prioritize across concurrent program and functional responsibilities.
• Current Special Access Program (SAP) access.