Specialist, Systems Engineer

Job Title: Specialist, Systems Engineer (EE)  

Job Code:  35521

Job Location: Cincinnati, OH 

Job Schedule: 9/80 OR 5/8 or 4/10

Job Description:

The System Engineer is responsible for the life-cycle support of our subsystems (Safe and Arm Devices and Height of Burst designs used in DoW weapon systems). Responsibilities span from proposal development through product retirement and include, but not limited to, customer briefings, proposal development, technical planning, system integration, verification and validation activities, risk and supportability assessments, engineering design and performance analyses, and formal requirements management to support customer verification reviews. The System Engineer will also ensure the logical and systematic development of customer requirements into comprehensive system solutions that balance technical, schedule and cost constraints. Perform functional analysis, timeline analysis, detail trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition studies to derive customer requirements into hardware and software specifications.

The Systems Engineer also supports the creation and maintenance of detailed design artifacts, oversees hardware integration and build activities, and contributes to structured test planning and execution.

Essential Functions:

The primary responsibilities of the role include the following:

• Creating and managing system requirements in JAMA and DOORS.
• Working collaboratively across the engineering organization to perform requirements analysis, requirements decomposition and assignment of requirements to appropriate functional areas of responsibility, and managing traceability of requirements back to customer specifications and system level derived requirements.
• Leading design synthesis and generation of supporting design documentation which includes technical specifications, interface control documents, test plans and procedures, and test conformance to specifications through verification cross reference matrix (VCRM).
• Performing functional analysis, software subsystem decomposition, timeline analysis, detail trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications.
• Conducting tests and documenting results.
• Developing and delivering presentations to communicate design activity plans and status to internal and external customers.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, RF Engineering, Computer Engineering or Systems Engineering and minimum 4 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 8 years of prior related experience.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Candidate should be skilled in the use of JAMA, DOORS, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project, Visio.
• Experience in product development a plus (preferably in military application environment). 
• Experience with reliability, safety analysis, risk analysis, and system performance analysis.
• Coursework and/or experience in systems engineering, systems architecture, systems analysis and design, system performance modeling, integration and/or project management, and/or model-based systems engineering.
• Strong communication skills (both written and oral) and formal presentation skills are required.