Description
Leidos Defense Sector is seeking a Specialty Systems Engineer to join a collaborative Systems Engineering Integration and Test team developing sensor payloads for space. The role involves leveraging expertise across risk, reliability/availability, radiation, and cybersecurity disciplines , combined with strong MBSE modeling skills , while contributing to the national defense mission.
Key Responsibilities:
- Risk Management:
- Conduct comprehensive risk assessments to identify, measure, and monitor potential threats to company assets, profitability, and operational integrity.
- Develop and enforce risk management policies, frameworks, and internal controls aligned with industry standards.
- Design and implement actionable risk mitigation plans, collaborating cross-functionally with department leaders to reduce exposures.
- Prepare regular risk reports for executive leadership and ensure ongoing compliance with regulatory requirements and governance standards.
- Specialty Engineering (Risk / Reliability / Availability / Radiation / Cybersecurity):
- Conduct or facilitate reliability and availability/maintainability analyses to identify, measure, and mitigate threats to system performance and mission success.
- Support radiation effects analysis for space systems through interaction with subject matter experts.
- Support cybersecurity risk assessments to ensure systems meet mission assurance and security requirements.
- Monitor and report specialty performance metrics to program and executive leadership.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with program management, design engineering, and logistics to integrate specialty findings into program baselines, design trade-offs, and compliance with applicable standards.
- MBSE / Cameo Modeling:
- Develop and maintain structural, behavioral, and parametric system models using SysML in Cameo Systems Modeler.
- Translate specialty analyses into model-based artifacts, establishing bi-directional traceability from stakeholder needs through requirements, architecture, and verification and validation.
- Map system-of-system architectures and define physical, logical, and software interfaces, integrating specialty engineering inputs directly into the digital model.
- Execute trade study analysis focusing on -illity related requirement and risk posture.
Required Skills:
- Experience as risk manager and running risk review boards
- Superior organization and leadership skills and attention to detail
- High level of commitment to quality work product and organizational ethics, integrity, and compliance
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, team environment
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to effectively communicate, both written and verbally
- Demonstrated decision making and problem-solving skills
- Detail-oriented with the ability to multi-task and meet deadlines with minimal supervision
Basic Qualifications:
- BS degree and 4+ years of relevant experience, or Masters with 2+ years of relevant experience
- Must be a US Citizen
- Must have an active Secret Clearance
- Experience modeling in Cameo Systems Modeler (or equivalent) using SysML, and experience using Teamwork Cloud
- Experience in risk management and one or more specialty disciplines: reliability engineering, availability/maintainability analysis, radiation effects analysis, or cybersecurity
- Experience deriving requirements for complex electrical, mechanical, optical, and software systems
- Familiarity with technical data management, report writing and support tasks
- Demonstrated ability in change management, process improvement, project planning, and stakeholder management
- Ability to demonstrate a commitment to personal and corporate excellence, ethical behavior and integrity