Overview
SENIOR SYSTEMS ENGINEER
LOCATION: Hanscom MA
JOB STATUS:Full-Time
Salary Range: $135,000 - 150,000
CLEARANCE: Secret
TRAVEL:Limited; As Needed
Astrion has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Systems Engineer providing support to the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center-Ground Base Air Defense Sensor division (AFLCMC/ESG).
The ESG Division manages efforts focused on developing, acquiring, fielding and sustaining programs that support worldwide communications, Battle Management, Command & Control, Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance (C2ISR), Air/Ground Surveillance, Time Critical Targeting, Combat Identification, Radar Imagery, Integrated Air/Missile Defense, and Mobile/Fixed C2ISR Performance, Exploitation & Dissemination Facilities.
This is a full time position located at Hanscom AFB, Bedford, MA.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS:
Citizenship: Must be a US citizen
Minimum Required Qualifications
Clearance: Must have and be able to maintain an active Secret security clearance
Preferred Qualifications
Education:Bachelor’s Degree in a related field and 12 years of experience in the respective technical/professional discipline being performed, five of which must be in the DoD
- Requirements development; production/deployment; operations/support
- Architectures development & implementation
- Modeling & simulation; MBSE principles; verification & validation
- Technical data package development/sustainment
- Configuration management principles
- Experience with network architectures, embedded systems, application deployment, cloud deployment, and virtualization
- Familiarity with DoD Acquisition processes including Technology Maturation, Risk Reduction, EMD, Production & Deployment
- Familiarity with Electronic Warfare and/or Air Combat operations, live aircrew training, TTP development, and Range Infrastructure architectures/systems
Technical Skills
- Broad theoretical and practical knowledge of systems engineering for acquisition
- Engineering support across system lifecycle (requirements through disposal)
- Understanding and implementation of DoD acquisition and sustainment systems engineering processes
- Familiarity with Technology Maturation, Risk Reduction, EMD, Production & Deployment activities
- Use of analytical, simulation, MBSE, and digital engineering tools (as provided)
Interpersonal Skills- Ability to work closely with Government and EPASS logisticians, program managers, and engineers
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Duties include, but not limited to:
- Conduct comprehensive program portfolio reviews to evaluate and recommend alternative plans, enhance systems engineering processes, manage and sustain technical baselines, and design/perform system-level tests to ensure subsystem and system performance aligns with approved specifications.
- Review and evaluate alternative plans, systems engineering programs, designs, and test results to verify subsystem and system performance compliance with program specifications.
- Prepare technical documentation defining and recommending system/subsystem characteristics, management reports, and technical presentations for planning, implementation, and corrective actions, applying engineering economy principles.
- Perform system validations, including criteria and procedure development, and analyze/evaluate major engineering system results.
- Provide engineering, technical support, and training for programs/initiatives, including acquisition, development, integration, sustainment, evolution, deployment, fielding, installation, and operations oversight.
- Support risk management activities in alignment with Air Force Systems Engineering Assessment Model (AF SEAM) processes.
- Conduct formal trade studies considering engineering performance, effectiveness, cost-performance balance, lifecycle cost, reliability, maintainability, risk, and schedule.
- Offer technical recommendations through reviews, studies, audits, evaluations, analyses, procedural guidance, and documentation, supporting engineering Integrated Product Teams (IPTs).
- Analyze proposals to compare and quantify technical feasibility, compatibility, and cost-effectiveness of proposed systems and components.
Concepts and Requirements Analysis:
- Review and analyze key documents, including Initial Capabilities Documents (ICDs), Capability Development Documents (CDDs), Capability Production Documents (CPDs), and Analyses of Alternatives (AoAs).
- Conduct assessments of military utility, operational concepts (CONOPs), technology development strategies, functional configuration audits (FCAs), physical configuration audits (PCAs), and technology standards profiles.
- Analyze system concepts and user requirements entered into system requirements baselines (functional, allocated, and product).
Engineering Process Support:
- Assist in material solution analysis, technology development, engineering, manufacturing, production, deployment, and operations support.
- Provide support for engineering technical processes, including version/configuration control, requirements analysis, architecture design, implementation, integration, verification, validation, and decision analysis.
- Perform risk, configuration, technical data, and interface management, as well as technical planning and assessments.
Technical Reviews and Documentation:
- Support planning and execution of technical reviews (e.g., System Requirements Review, Technology Readiness Assessments) and develop associated documentation (e.g., Systems Engineering Plan, Risk Management Plan).
- Develop systems engineering documentation, ensuring understanding of systems-of-systems interactions, configuration management, technical data packages, and acquisition/sustainment engineering processes.
