Systems Engineer III

DPP is seeking a Systems Engineer III for an opportunity with our client in the Aerospace and Defense Manufacturing industry.
 
Work location: Onsite in Woodland Hills, CA
Duration: 11 months
Terms: W2 Contract
Work authorization: US Citizen; must be able to obtain/maintain a Secret security clearance
 
Position summary:

• This role may be filled at a Principal or Senior level. The Systems Engineer III will have a strong understanding of requirements development, test case development, and verification and validation of those requirements.
• The ideal candidate will be proficient with requirements technical baseline management via IBM Rational DOORS, and act as a technical lead and point of contact to the Chief Engineer and customer.

Responsibilities:

• Work with a broad customer base to identify unique requirements, flow the requirements into design documentation, and work with a diverse team to build and test those requirements.
• Present to customers on the capabilities of current products, performance analyses, design information, and requirements verification methods.
• Generate, review, and manage multiple requirements sets that cover all aspects of both performance and nonperformance including mechanical interfaces, electrical interfaces, data requirements, environmental requirements, and reliability.
• Awareness and responsiveness to contract milestones and deliverables.
• Lead an Agile team to ensure the designs are sufficient to meet the system requirements.
• Work with various Agile teams to ensure all requirements are verified through inspection, analysis, demonstration, or test often by providing test and data reduction scripts.
• Provide test directions to ensure production tests and troubleshooting tests are executed correctly and resulting data conforms to requirements.

Required qualifications – Principal System Engineer III:

• Bachelor's of Science degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) discipline with 5+ years of engineering experience OR Master's Science degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) discipline with 3+ years of engineering experience OR PhD degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) discipline with 1+ years of engineering experience
• Experience with IBM Rational DOORS
• Demonstrated success with:
  • Technical baseline management
  • Writing and updating DOORS requirements
  • Decomposing and deriving requirements based on customer specifications
• Experience in System Engineering activities such as:
  • Software requirements development
  • Requirements development
  • Test Case Development
  • Verification and Validation, i.e. experience running tests and documenting results
• Excellent written and oral communication skills include:
  • Demonstrated experience presenting to internal and external stakeholders
  • Demonstrated experience communicating technical information, e.g. requirements updates, test plans, integration test plans, etc.
• Demonstrated experience supporting test investigations and debugging efforts
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams
• Active DoD Secret clearance required at the time of application
• Ability to work onsite full-time at Woodland Hills, CA

Required qualifications – Senior Principal System Engineer III:

• Bachelor's of Science degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) discipline with 8+ years of engineering experience OR Master's Science degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) discipline with 6+ years of engineering experience OR PhD degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) discipline with 4+ years of engineering experience
• Experience with IBM Rational DOORS
• Demonstrated success with:
  • Technical baseline management
  • Writing and updating DOORS requirements
  • Decomposing and deriving requirements based on customer specifications
• Experience in System Engineering activities such as:
  • Software requirements development
  • Requirements development
  • Test Case Development
  • Verification and Validation, i.e. experience running tests and documenting results
• Excellent written and oral communication skills include:
  • Demonstrated experience presenting to internal and external stakeholders
  • Demonstrated experience communicating technical information, e.g. requirements updates, test plans, integration test plans, etc...
• Demonstrated experience supporting test investigations and debugging efforts
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams
• Active DoD Secret clearance required at the time of application
• Ability to work onsite full-time at Woodland Hills, CA

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with the following interfaces:
  • MIL-STD-1553
  • Experience with ARINC-429
  • Experience with Ethernet
• Experience working in an Agile engineering team
• Experience with JIRA
• Systems Engineering experience on large, complex systems
• Lab and system integration experience
• Demonstrated experience with Model Based Systems Engineering and Cameo modeling (or equivalent)
• Experience with ClearQuest / ClearCase

Interested? Learn more:
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