Sr Prin Optical Systems Engineer

Job Summary

Mercury Systems is seeking a Sr. Principal Systems Engineer to play a crucial role in the development, integration, verification and maintenance of complex systems and technologies used in defense and aerospace applications. This position requires optical experience. You’ll be working in a matrix organization as part of a multi‑disciplined engineering team while collaborating with Line of Business Chief Engineers, systems engineering, program management, business development, operations, supply chain, and executive leadership to meet customer needs.

• Optical design of Displays and Network products
• Optical testing of Engineering units to verify functional requirements/risk reduction testing (including uniformity testing)
• Optical Design Verification Testing (ODVT) for Displays and Network products at Gulf Breeze, FL facility
• Writing ODVT procedures and reports
• Troubleshooting activities for displays products that are optical in nature (night vision failures, ‘glow’/cell stress visual anomalies, etc)
• Coordination of activities onsite to provide New Product Introduction (NPI) materials needed to create to have assets ready to support optical testing
• Managing calibration needs of all onsite optical equipment
• Training of Production Test operators on proper usage of optical test equipment in support of acceptance test procedure (ATP) optical testing
• System engineering support within multiple LOBs

• Typically requires 10+ years of Systems Engineering experience spanning capture, design, integration, verification, and validation of optical systems and with at least one of the following:
  • high‑performance embedded processing systems
  • server systems, and/or
  • RF/EW systems
• Experience in System Engineering activities such as business development support, customer engagement, operational concept development, functional/physical architecture definition, requirements development, trade study execution, interface definition, technical baseline management, and transition to production
• Experience and understanding of the complete program lifecycle
• Experience leading engineering teams
• Experience working with Business Development in providing technical leadership, developing bids for capture, and writing technical/management volumes
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Experience providing leadership and mentoring

• Advanced degree higher in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) discipline
• Understanding and experience with Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
• Experience with Cameo Enterprise Architect and SysML modeling (or equivalent)
• Experience with Jama, Confluence, Jira, Bitbucket
• Familiarity with FPGA/CPLD or CPU/MCU processing systems
• Excellent time management, organizational skills, and earned value management
• Ability to work multi‑disciplined engineering problems and foster collaboration across inter‑Business Unit/Line of Business boundaries
• Ability to travel, up to 25% of the time

This position requires you to access information that is subject to U.S. export regulations. You may only access such information if you are a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. government.

Mercury Systems is a technology company that makes the world a safer, more secure place. We push processing power to the tactical edge, making the latest commercial technologies profoundly more accessible for today's most challenging aerospace and defense missions. From silicon to system scale, Mercury enables customers to accelerate innovation and turn data into decision superiority. Headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts, Mercury employs more than 2,300 people in 24 locations worldwide.

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