We are seeking an experienced Principal Systems Engineer to design and manufacture novel RF systems for a variety of platforms in a rapid development environment. This multidisciplinary role involves significant interaction with all engineering disciplines and covers everything from customer needs to unit-level specifications. The focus will be on typical Systems Engineering responsibilities, including requirements definition and management, system architecture, system analysis, change management, and interface definition. Additionally, you will play a key role in integration, verification, and validation (IV&V) planning and execution to ensure products meet requirements. A Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) approach is employed to make processes more thorough and efficient. Our fast-moving technology company focuses on supporting other engineering teams and facilitating rapid development.
Responsibilities:
o Own system requirements for a product, including requirement definition and maintenance
o Ensure Key Performance Parameters, as derived through mission modeling and operational analysis, are properly flowed to system requirements
o Act as key interface with either existing or prospective customers to prove customer requirements/needs are fully satisfied by system requirements
o Coordinate key requirements with subsystem design teams; ensuring requirement flow-down to hardware and software subsystems is captured and properly traced
o Collaborate with design engineering to establish the system architecture, capturing in MBSE diagrams (to include Structural and Behavioral Diagrams)
o Maintain architectural definition throughout the development process to ensure team alignment
o Develop interface control documentation and own interface management between hardware/software/firmware subsystems
o Perform trade studies and quick-turn impact analyses to facilitate agile hardware/software/firmware development
o Perform analysis to prove system requirements are addressed by the system design
o Ensure best practices for configuration management are adhered to
o Facilitate multi-discipline coordination across teams
o Participate in IV&V planning and preparation
o Contribute technical writing and figures to proposals and other business development efforts
Basic Skills & Qualifications:
Nice-to-Have Additional Experience:
This position is fully onsite in Torrance, CA. We offer a high-growth environment with cutting-edge technology and minimal competition. Benefits include free lunch catered every day, occasional work-from-home flexibility, unlimited PTO, stock options, a 6% 401k match, and end-of-year cash bonuses and salary increases based on personal and company performance. Our Client is dedicated to overcoming the asymmetric challenges inherent to the future of national security.
The pay range for this position is $160000.00 - $200000.00/yr.
Employee Value Prop (EVP):
o In the last 3 years, lowest has been 4% for both and highest has been 10% for both, but because they got Series D funding this year, they expect it to be a big year / likely higher than 10%
This is a fully onsite position in Torrance,CA.
This position is anticipated to close on May 7, 2025.
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