** Candidate must be a US Citizen and possess (and be able to maintain) a Final Secret Clearance or meet the eligibility to obtain (and maintain) a Secret Clearance. **
Who are we looking for?
Pacific Defense is seeking a proven Chief Systems Engineer, Space Systems with the ability to lead and execute complex programs. The Chief Systems Engineer will partner with the Mission Solutions Chief Engineer (MSCE) in the Tactical Converged Systems business area. In this partnership the CSE will be the primary Engineering Authority for the execution of the various programs within the business area. While the MSCE is focused outwardly and owns the technical baselines, the CSE is inwardly focused on program execution implementing the technical baselines on a per program basis.
Requirements
You’ll Bring These Qualifications:
- Support the Mission Solutions Chief Engineer to ensure the business area baselines, product evolution and program execution align.
- Be capable of standing in for the MSCE as needed.
- Requirement generation, allocation, and verification for all business area programs
- Accountable for the overall system architecture and its capabilities in support of the program requirements
- Develop and Support the Integration and Test phases including verification/validation/acceptance.
- Support product definition for new products and/or modifications of existing products that comprise the systems being developed on each of the business area programs.
- Responsible for the day-to-day execution of the program engineering team. This will include all engineering disciplines with a focus on execution within cost/schedule budgets.
- Reporting functionally to the PMO as the Responsible Engineering Authority for execution of business area programs (engineering performance against cost/schedule is a component)
- Work solutions to program problems across the company
- Support new business initiatives as required to include contribution to technical content, distribution, and collection/validation of Engineering BOEs across engineering disciplines for proposals.
- Mentorship and growth of early career System Engineers
- Responsible for direct reports (i.e. 1-8 people) and associated performance and career development
Required Skills:- Experience with space hardware architecture, specification, design, integration, and testing
- Work with customers to develop and document system requirements
- Monitors supplier performance to ensure system integration and compliance with requirements
- Strong understanding of hardware engineering, electrical engineering, electronics, and computer architectures for space
- Coordinate work to analyze and translate requirements into system architecture, hardware and software designs and interface specifications
- Strong mathematical background with basic understanding of General-Purpose Graphical Processing Units (GPGPUs), General Purposes Processors, and Firmware devices
- Ability to design, analyze, and evaluate hardware products for space applications
- Knowledge of hardware integration, test, and verification, and intermediate understanding of MIL-STD-1540
- Experience following processes to ensure quality and predictability of hardware development
- Develop models or simulations and apply advanced computer programs, analytical techniques, or control strategies to effectively meet requirements and resolve problems
- Experience with circuit design, requirements and interface definition, modeling and analysis, testing, performance, and design verification with emphasis on Power Supply and Analog and Digital Circuit Design.
- Power conditioning electronics, control system design and theory
- Critical thinker, with prudent risk tolerance to balance risk and technology with requirements, cost, and schedule
- Competitive spirit accepting of challenges with a willingness to learn and recover from mistakes
- Willingness to learn and explore on your own, and travel, when necessary, in support of business goals
- Proven ability to work and lead in a small team environment
- Strong written and oral communication skills with experience presenting technical material
- Must be a US Citizen, with ability to gain/regain security clearance
Desired Skills:- Attention to details
- Applied systems engineering skill set with knowledge of hardware for space applications
- Master’s degree or beyond in Electrical Engineering, Physics, or similar degree
- Experience using NI hardware, drivers, and application software such as VeriStand, TestStand, and LabVIEW
- Introductory level understanding of orbital mechanics and/or astrodynamics for modeli