Aerospace Senior System Engineer

Position Overview

Work Arrangement: Onsite in Tampa, FL

A Senior Systems Engineer leads projects related to creating system architecture, develops and defines system and product requirements, defines methods for verifying compliance to requirements, creates new solutions for the systems, and helps systems work more effectively. This individual may train or mentor Systems Engineers who have less experience and make decisions on projects and department activities. Their overall purpose is to ensure the product or system runs as efficiently as possible and works consistently to meet the needs of the company.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide engineering expertise, oversight, and participation in activities involving weapon systems and associated hardware/software development, integration, test, configuration management, and acquisition and resource management for new capabilities to an existing weapon system.
• Develop and document system and subsystem level specified and derived requirements and allocate requirements through the appropriate work breakdown structure (WBS) as codified in a System Requirements Review (SRR) process.
• Support the requirements identification, verification, validation, and testing process.
• Participate in program technical interchange meetings, program management reviews, executive management reviews, test-related meetings, lab and flight test events, integrated product team meetings, software/hardware design reviews, and platform integration meetings.
• Act as the engineering team leader by developing system engineering procedures and controls, managing project efforts, and taking the lead in problem resolution for aircraft research, development, production, and lifecycle acquisition and sustainment activities.
• Interface with weapons system contractors, vendors, and Government representatives regarding the technical aspects of engineering activities.
• Independently apply engineering principles to investigate, analyze, plan, oversee, and evaluate weapons system development and sustainment activities.
• Review and prepare engineering and technical analyses, reports, change proposals, and other technical documentation.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Maintain regular and reliable attendance on a full-time basis.
• Exhibit professional behavior with both internal and external business associates in line with company policies.
• Embody AEVEX’s cultural values and align daily actions with department goals and company culture.

Required Qualifications

• Skilled in the use of DOORs, Cameo, or other requirements management systems.
• Project management skills and experience with MS Project.
• Experience using workflow management software such as Jira.
• Comfort with SysML and Block Diagram Development in tools such as Visio, Cameo, and/or Enterprise Architect.
• Experience working in an integrated product team (IPT) environment and/or serving as a team lead.
• Ability to decompose complex systems into manageable subsystems and architectures that meet requirements.
• Skill in eliciting and decomposing requirements into validatable items and assigning measures (KPIs) for them.
• Demonstrated organization and leadership skills.
• Excellent communication, both verbal and written.
• Ability to work collaboratively across functional boundaries to apply problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Knowledge of data privacy.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
• Master's degree in Systems Engineering desired.
• Minimum ten (10) years of relevant experience with a bachelor's degree; five (5) years with a master's degree.
• At least five (5) years of system engineering experience on DoD programs/projects applying various MIL-STD, MIL-HDBK, and DoD certification processes.
• Physical demands: Constantly required to sit and to reach to use computers and other office equipment.
• Security Clearance: Active Top Secret DoD Clearance preferred, U.S. Citizenship required.