
Lead Systems Engineer
- El Segundo, CA
- $150,000-200,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- The Lead Systems Engineer shall be responsible for overseeing the systems engineering related aspects of the contract and shall have demonstrated expertise in systems engineering concepts and processes
- The Lead Systems Engineer shall serve as the primary technical point of contact and shall serve as the lead for technical discussions and technical issue resolution.
- This individual shall possess the ability to coordinate cross-functional team efforts to ensure system architecture and design align with project requirements.
- Represents the team in a technical capacity to the government customer and external organizations
- Provide general and technical engineering support for the development of space vehicles, payloads, and related space systems.
- Support a broad range of systems architecting and engineering activities such as system requirements definition, design, interface management, data architecture development, verification and validation, integration, performance analysis, lifecycle cost analysis & estimation, decision analysis, and physical configuration assessments.
- Manage interface negotiation with external stakeholders.
- Oversee requirements and interface verification.
- Ensure the logical and systematic conversion of product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints
- Support development of system engineering items such as CONOPs, requirements definitions, system testing, algorithm document review, and interfaces to other application development efforts
- Support the development and refinement of acquisition strategies as well as identifying program execution issues and provide recommendations when possible
- Analyze system requirements that define the technical baseline and verification of the technical baseline
- Review proposed changes to the technical baseline for impacts to enterprise capabilities and to cross-stakeholder integration concerns
- Attend and contribute to program and project management meetings and collaboration sessions
- Facilitate communication and prepare/update plans of action and milestones (PoAMs)
- Lead problem documentation and problem-solving efforts
- Author, review, and coordinate documents and data to aid Government decision-making.
- Actively participate and represent the customer in various Government and contractor meetings; attend program and technical reviews (e.g., PMRs, PDRs, CDRs, and other milestone and coordination meetings) to provide technical and programmatic system recommendations and risk assessments.
- Previous DoD, Air Force, or Space Force, or Space Systems Command (SSC) systems engineering experience is preferred