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Principal Systems Engineer

Huntsville, AL, US • Posted 2 days ago • Updated 3 hours ago

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System Requirements
Modeling
Systems Analysis/design
Instrumentation
Test Methods
Engineering Support
MRB
Collaboration
Cost Estimation
Cost-benefit Analysis
Program Management
Budget
Estimating
Leadership
Security Clearance
DoD
Management
Development Testing
FOCUS
International Relations
Investor Relations
Information Retrieval
RCS
MDA
Hardware Development
Proposal Writing
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Position Title: Principal Systems Engineer
Position Type: Full-Time
Location: Huntsville, AL
Clearance: Active Secret Clearance
Travel: up to 20%

Waypoint's client is seeking a highly skilled Principal Systems Engineer to provide engineering oversight for target system payloads and countermeasure development. In this role, you will act as a trusted advisor to the program office, delivering critical assessments of prime contractor designs, technical plans, and target instrumentation layouts.
You will serve as a technical anchor during major program milestones-from System Requirements through Product Acceptance-while seamlessly collaborating across multiple organizations, modeling teams, cost analysts, and schedulers to ensure items are delivered accurately and on time.

Responsibilities:

Expert Advisory: Serve as the technical expert on payload and countermeasure requirements development, analysis, design, qualification, and fielding.
Independent Evaluation: Review and provide assessments of prime contractor designs, plans, reports, and technical procedures.
Instrumentation Analysis: Evaluate target instrumentation requirements, physical layouts, component selection, and testing methodologies.

Milestone Reviews: Provide technical evaluation and engineering support during all major program milestones (including SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, FRB, MRB, and PAR).
Cross-Agency Coordination: Answer technical inquiries from external MDA organizations and lead multi-disciplinary Technical Interchange Meetings (TIMs).

Cost Estimation: Provide technical assessments to the cost analysis team to ensure accurate program management budget estimates.
Schedule Alignment: Partner with the program scheduler to track delivery deadlines and proactively keep leadership advised of status.

Required:

Active DoD Secret clearance.
Master's degree in STEM and 12+ years supporting missile defense or large-scale, complex DoD programs.
Experience managing end-to-end program lifecycles, including the development, testing, and fielding of complex systems.
Thrive in a fast-paced environment where priorities change quickly.
Handle multiple urgent tasks at once without losing focus.
Able to support travel request up to 20% of the time.

Desired:

Understanding of IR/RCS signatures for flight objects and countermeasures.
Experience with material properties and material property measurements.
Knowledge of real-world threat systems and how they impact target designs.
Have an understanding of MDA flight test requirements and apply that to the payload hardware development.
Technical proposal development and evaluation.

Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools (“AI”) that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description. The position description has been reviewed for accuracy and Dice believes it to correctly reflect the job opportunity.

Dice Id: 91113162
Position Id: 587d73ef0c0afe36992aa334462acf2d
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