Principal Engineer - Systems Engineering

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410 Jan Davis Drive North West, Huntsville, ALtime type:
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May 20, 2026 (30+ days left to apply) job requisition :
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** Worker Type
** Regular
* * Job Description
** The Principal Engineer  - Systems Engineering works with our Design team to develop a missile system for defense applications. This position will interact with the other engineering disciplines as well as suppliers to allocate/develop/evaluate requirements as well as maintain development schedules. These development efforts will generally be small focused design teams, which will require engineers to use a range of skills and tools across traditional engineering, computer science, and mathematical disciplines.

Because of the nature of the development efforts, the engineer will need to work on a variety of stages of development including requirements definition, concept design, prototyping, detailed design, validation and verification testing.  Position Responsibilities  
· Support requirements traceability and evolution through the system development cycle  
· Provide weekly status of system development progress with requirements burn down  
· Allocate requirements to subsystem & engineering coordination  
· Manage/facilitate supplier efforts to support the design cycle and test events  
· Evaluate system performance thresholds and providing direction  
· Provide input for model development and simulation analysis  
· Review and interpret customer specification effectively  
· Identifies, analyzes and resolves system design weaknesses. Influences the shaping of future products by contributing to the framework (architecture) used across multiple products or systems  
· Work on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangibles  
· Exercise judgment in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results  
· Determine methods and procedures on new assignments and may coordinate activities of other personnel (Team Lead and cross-functional partnerships)  
· Other duties as assigned  Basic Qualifications (Required Skills & Experience)  
· Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science/Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace, or Mechanical Engineering is required or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience  
· 10-12 years of experience in a systems engineering role (Aerospace systems engineering preferred)  
· 4-7 years of experience in applying Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) to design.  
· 5-7 years of experience with Cameo or 5 yrs of Software creation experience.  
· Has managed requirements traceability and evolution through the system development cycle  
· Provided an effective weekly status of system development progress with requirements burn down  
· Allocated requirements to subsystem & engineering coordination  
· Evaluated system performance thresholds and providing direction  
· Developed instrumented flight test vectors and data acquisition  
· Provided input for model development and simulation analysis  
· Strong Matlab skills and is proficient with office software and computer based productivity tools  
· Familiarity with electronics and systems related to image collection and analysis  
· Has developed systems test plans, procedures, and reports and reviewed and interpreted specifications  
· Writing Systems Safety protocols and ensuring personnel safety during field testing  Other Qualifications & Desired Competencies  
· Advanced degree is preferred  
· 10+ years of experience with Cameo  
· 7+ years of experience successfully applying MOSA or 7+ yrs of experience creating Software  
· Understanding and experience applying MIL-STD-882, MIL-STD-1316, JTOP-052, and AOP 52  
· Experience using JAMA and JIRA preferred  
· Taking a product from concept to production with contract manufacturers is a plus  
· Exposure to Guidance Navigation and Control Systems along with Modeling Simulation & Control and Model-Based Systems Engineering is helpful but not required  
· Knowledge of…