Secret-Cleared Systems Engineer

PGS Worldwide is seeking a Secret-Cleared Systems Engineer in Woodland Hills, California for a one-year onsite contract-to-hire role supporting a leading aerospace & defense company. This position will lead requirements development, technical baseline management, verification and validation, and system-level testing for complex defense systems. The engineer will serve as a technical point of contact, working with customers, engineering leadership, and Agile teams to translate customer needs into verified system requirements.

Required Skills

• Principal track: Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline with 5+ years of engineering experience; OR master’s degree in STEM with 3+ years of engineering experience; OR Ph.D. in STEM with 1+ year of engineering experience.
• Senior track: Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline with 8+ years of engineering experience; OR master’s degree in STEM with 6+ years of engineering experience; OR Ph.D. in STEM with 4+ years of engineering experience.
• Active DoD Secret clearance required at the time of application.
• U.S. citizenship required.
• Experience with IBM Rational DOORS.
• Experience writing, updating, decomposing, and deriving system requirements from customer specifications.
• Experience with requirements and technical baseline management.
• Systems Engineering experience including software requirements development, requirements development, test case development, and verification and validation.
• Experience executing tests, documenting results, and supporting test investigations and debugging.
• Ability to communicate technical information including requirements updates, test plans, and integration test plans.
• Experience presenting technical information to internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional engineering teams.
• Ability to work onsite full-time in Woodland Hills, California.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with MIL-STD-1553, ARINC-429, and Ethernet interfaces.
• Experience working within Agile engineering teams.
• Experience with JIRA.
• Systems Engineering experience on large, complex systems.
• Lab and system integration experience.
• Model-Based Systems Engineering experience using Cameo or equivalent modeling tools.
• Experience with ClearQuest and ClearCase.

What You’ll Do

• Work with customers to identify system requirements and translate them into engineering and design documentation.
• Generate, review, update, and manage requirements covering system performance and nonperformance criteria.
• Manage requirements involving mechanical interfaces, electrical interfaces, data, environmental requirements, and reliability.
• Maintain requirements and technical baselines within IBM Rational DOORS.
• Decompose and derive lower-level requirements from customer and system specifications.
• Lead Agile engineering activities to ensure designs satisfy system requirements.
• Coordinate with multiple engineering teams to verify requirements through inspection, analysis, demonstration, or testing.
• Develop or provide test and data-reduction scripts as needed to support verification activities.
• Provide technical direction for production and troubleshooting tests and evaluate resulting data for requirements compliance.
• Present product capabilities, performance analyses, design information, and verification methods to customers and technical stakeholders.
• Support test investigations, integration efforts, troubleshooting, and debugging.
• Track contract milestones, technical deliverables, and requirements-verification activities.

Work Schedule / Shift

• 9/80 A work schedule.
• Full-time onsite in Woodland Hills, California.

Pay

• $121.02 per hour.

Job ID: 1777

Military veterans and transitioning military members are encouraged to apply to all PGS Worldwide positions. All of our jobs are military-friendly, and we work with leaders in Aerospace who rely on your military expertise to support mission-critical programs nationwide. As a Veteran Founded company, we know that the military has given you the skills and training you need to succeed in positions like this, and we want to support your success in the civilian sector however we can. We thank you for your service and humbly offer our own in return by helping you take your career to the next level.