5-D Systems, a KRATOS Company, is a growing defense contractor headquartered in Round Rock, TX with over twenty years' experience providing systems and software engineering for Unmanned Aircraft Systems and Systems Engineering Technical Support to Government Program Offices.5-D Systems, a KRATOS Company, is seeking a highly motivated candidate in support of our customer located at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama, who will serve as a Systems Engineer supporting the IFMC AMD Mission Command Product Office, a government program office addressing Army Air and Missile Defense systems, with focus on Mission Command systems. The candidate in this role will work with contractors, government civilians and system operators to develop system level concepts that provide solutions to problems that often involve multiple systems from multiple product offices. These concepts define external interfaces, outline system behavior, performance, and acceptance criteria necessary to support HW and SW engineering teams. Tasks may also include leading reviews and adjudicating comments made against the concepts. Concept development will utilize a model-based systems engineering (MBSE) approach in an Agile workflow and environment.
- US Citizenship
- Ability to acquire or possess (as well as maintain) a US Secret security clearance.
- Resident of the Huntsville, Alabama area
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, science, or related field
- 7 or more years of systems engineering experience
- Experience in one or more of the following areas:tactical command and control systems, tactical weapons systems, tactical sensor systems, software, hardware, requirements decomposition, or MBSE tools and languages
- A record of taking initiative and being a team player in a small team environment.
- Must be comfortable working as a team member in an Agile environment and be willing to engage various levels of stakeholders to ensure proposed solutions can meet the needs of intended users
- Must be highly organized with a strong technical background in systems engineering principles
Other Qualifications:
- System engineering experience in support of DoD programs is highly desired, especially in an Army Air and Missile Defense program.
- Hands on experience creating models in Cameo or MagicDraw using SysML and UAF are desired
- Experience using Atlassian tools such as Jira and Confluence and SAFe© Agile experience are plus