Systems Engineer SME
- Ogden, UT
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Conduct reviews on program portfolios to evaluate and/or recommend alternative plans, improve systems engineering programs and processes, manage and sustain the program technical baseline, and design and perform system-level tests to ensure subsystem and system performance align with approved specifications.
- Perform program reviews to assess alternative proposed plans, systems engineering programs, designs, and test results to ensure subsystem and system performance meet program specifications.
- Provide system and program engineering, technical support, and technical training for initiatives including, but not limited to: acquisition, development, integration, sustainment, continued evolution, deployment/fielding, installation, and operations oversight.
- Assist with material solution analysis, technology development, engineering and manufacturing development, production and deployment, and operations and support.
- Support engineering technical and technical management processes associated with version and configuration control, including:
- Requirements definition and analysis
- Architecture design, implementation, integration, verification, validation, transition
- Decision analysis, technical planning, and technical assessment
- Requirements management, risk management, configuration management, technical data management, and interface management
- Prepare technical documents that define, specify, and recommend system and subsystem characteristics.
- Develop management reports and conduct technical presentations to support planning, implementation, and corrective actions using engineering economy principles.
- Provide technical recommendation support services, including reviews, studies, audits, evaluations, analyses, scientific and procedural guidance, documentation, and support of associated engineering IPTs.
- Provide proposal analysis support services that compare and quantify proposed systems, components, and approaches for technical feasibility, compatibility, and cost-effectiveness.
- Support the development of systems engineering documentation and demonstrate understanding of interactions among systems of systems, configuration management, technical data packages, and acquisition and sustainment engineering processes.
- Perform validation of systems, including development of criteria and procedures.
- Analyze and evaluate results of major engineering systems.
- Provide engineering support to conduct formal trade studies based on performance, effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, cost-performance, life cycle cost, productivity, reliability, maintainability, risk, and schedule.
- Review and analyze system concepts and user requirements that have been approved and entered into the system requirements baseline (functional, allocated, and product).
- Provide concepts and requirements analyses support services, including review and analysis of:
- Initial Capabilities Documents (ICD)
- Capability Development Documents (CDD)
- Capability Production Documents (CPD)
- Analyses of Alternatives (AoA)
- Military Utility Assessments
- Concepts of Operation (CONOP)
- Technology Development Strategies
- Functional Configuration Audits (FCA) / Physical Configuration Audits (PCA)
- Technology Standards Profiles
- Provide engineering support services and inputs to program and project risk management activities in compliance with AF SEAM processes.
- Assist with the planning and execution of technical reviews and assessments (e.g., System Requirements Review, Technology Readiness Assessment).
- Support the development of associated documentation, including Systems Engineering Plans and Risk Management Plans.
- 30 years of directly related experience with 20 years of experience in a DoD setting
- Experienced in requirements development, production and deployment, and operation and support, architectures development & implementation, modeling & simulation including but not limited to Model Based Systems Engineering principles, verification & validation, technical data package development and sustainment, and principles of configuration management
- Experience with network architectures, embedded systems and application deployment across a variety of systems and hardware, to include cloud deployment and virtualization
- Familiarity with DoD Acquisition processes including Technology Maturation, Risk Reduction, Engineering Manufacturing and Development, Production and Deployment activities
- Familiarity with Electronic Warfare and/or Air Combat operations including live aircrew training/development of tactics, techniques, and procedures and Range Infrastructure architectures and systems are desired
- Familiarity with foreign ground radar