# Senior Systems Engineer – Seeker Testing - Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC3)

**Company**: The Boeing Company
**Location**: Huntsville, AL
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $136,850 - $185,150
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Manufacturing

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## Description

The Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) program, part of The Boeing Company, is seeking an experienced Senior Systems Engineer - Seeker Testing to define seeker level testing and interfaces on the Seeker Integrated Product Team (IPT) across its production, capacity expansion, and development programs in Huntsville, AL.

The PAC-3 program is an air-defense missile system designed to counter tactical ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and advanced aircraft. Boeing is the original engineering manufacturer of the seeker, which provides active data to the PAC-3 missile, enabling it to acquire, intercept, and destroy threats using hit-to-kill technology.

**Responsibilities:**

- Derive test requirements from system-level seeker requirements

- Develop test methodologies and interfaces, including hardware and software

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement systems engineering processes and best practices

- Develop and maintain system requirements, interface control documents, and verification and validation plans

- Oversee the integration of hardware and software components in a test environment

- Support production and capacity expansion initiatives by providing technical guidance and resolving engineering challenges

- Mentor and provide technical leadership to junior engineers

- Prepare and present technical documentation and reports to stakeholders

- Stay current with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in systems engineering and RF seeker technologies

**Requirements:**

- Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology, Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry or non-US equivalent qualifications

- Typically 9 or more years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of technical education and experience

- 3+ years of experience in Systems Engineering relating to test requirement and interface definition

- Strong understanding of systems engineering principles, methodologies, and tools

- Proficiency in systems integration and testing processes

- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think critically and strategically

- Strong communication and interpersonal skills

- Familiarity with production processes, capacity expansion, and development programs in the aerospace and defense industry

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- 3+ years of experience working on RF seeker systems or related technologies

- Experience with the development of Test Equipment

- Bachelor/Masters of Electrical Engineering or related Radar coursework

- Experience verifying and validating formal test equipment

- Experience supporting program milestones in the gating process

**Benefits:**

- Competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities

- Health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs

- Paid and unpaid time away from work

**Salary Range:** $136,850 - $185,150

## Skills

### Required
- Systems Engineering
- Test Requirement Definition
- Interface Definition
- Hardware and Software Development
- Systems Integration and Testing

### Nice to have
- RF Seeker Systems
- Test Equipment Development
- Electrical Engineering
- Radar Coursework
- Formal Test Equipment Verification

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