# Lead Systems Engineer

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Huntsville, AL
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $107,900.00 - $195,050.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Aerospace & Defence

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## Description

Leidos Defense is seeking a Lead Systems Engineer to join the IFPC Inc 2 systems engineering team. The IFPC Inc 2 is a ground-based, mobile system that aims to combat cruise missiles and unmanned aircraft systems.

The Lead Systems Engineer will play a critical role in driving technical excellence and innovation while ensuring program success through effective leadership and stakeholder management. The Lead Systems Engineer will supervise the technical work of a large team of systems engineers, including a requirements lead, verification lead, and architecture lead, while managing and reporting on team output and progress.

Responsibilities:

- Guide the vision for the Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) model and weapon system architecture

- Leverage artificial intelligence to improve and optimize systems engineering processes

- Support proposals and new program efforts as the program works towards fielding

- Serve as a technical liaison with customer representatives

- Provide monthly team status reports to Program Leadership

- Ensure systems engineering effort remains within budget constraints

- Guarantee that Systems Engineering objectives are achieved according to the program schedule

- Oversee the development and management of critical systems engineering artifacts

- Coordinate systems engineering activities across functional areas

- Drive integration of new technologies and methodologies into existing processes

Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or equivalent degree from an ABET-accredited university with 8+ years of experience or an MS with 6+ years

- Experience in deriving and managing requirements for complex electrical, electro-mechanical, mechanical, and software systems

- Experience creating verification and test plans, and coordinating system integration and test activities

- Basic understanding of radar systems or at minimum sensor system operations

- Experience leading cross-discipline and product teams

- Demonstrated experience effectively communicating within a team environment

- Resident of the North Alabama area or willing to relocate to the Huntsville - North Alabama, AL area

- Possess a secret clearance, or have the ability to obtain a secret clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

- Master of Science in System Engineering from an ABET-accredited university

- At least 2-4 years of direct systems engineering experience

- Experience and/or working knowledge with requirements management tools, such as DOORS, JAMA, or Cameo/MagicDraw

- Demonstrated experience effectively leading a team of engineers

- Demonstrated experience accurately estimating the engineering effort associated with Systems Engineering tasks

- DOORS and/or other requirements database tools

- Understanding of the DoD acquisition processes and methods

- Experience supporting one or more DoD programs

- Object Management Group (OMG) Certified System Modeler Professional (OCSMP) certification

- INCOSE Systems Engineering Professional (SEP) certification (ASEP or CSEP)

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## Skills

### Required
- Systems Engineering
- Electrical Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Software Engineering
- Computer Science
- Computer Engineering
- Aerospace Engineering
- Radar Systems
- Sensor System Operations
- Leadership
- Communication
- Project Management

### Nice to have
- Model-Based Systems Engineering
- Artificial Intelligence
- Requirements Management Tools
- DOORS
- JAMA
- Cameo/MagicDraw
- OMB Certified System Modeler Professional
- INCOSE Systems Engineering Professional

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