Principal Engineer for RPA Development

6 days ago


Poway, California, United States P E Systems, Inc. Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Systems Engineer to join our team at P E Systems, Inc. in a challenging and rewarding role.

Key Responsibilities
  • Assist the engineering team in developing and managing engineering procedures and controls, project efforts, and recommending problem resolution.
  • Interface with contractors, vendors, and government representatives regarding the technical aspects of engineering activities, including oversight of the R&M projects.
  • Apply engineering principles to investigate, analyze, plan, oversee, and evaluate weapons system development and sustainment activities.
  • Review and prepare engineering and technical analyses, reports, change proposals, and other technical documentation.
  • Provide engineering expertise, oversight, and participation to activities involving weapons system and associated SE hardware/software development, integration and test, configuration management, QA testing, and acquisition and resource management.
  • Analyze operational capability and evolving requirements or deficiencies and provide advisory and draft documentation support for the preparation and coordination of key development, procurement, potential solutions, and sustainment planning documentation for efforts.
  • Support the planning and design of experiments, analyses, and modeling and simulation efforts, and support traceability of these efforts to identify defects and ensure requirements are met.
  • Support program technical interchange meetings, PMR, executive management reviews, test-related meetings such as Technical Review Board (TRB), Safety Review Board (SRB), Test Readiness Review (TRR) and Test Plan Working Group (TPWG), lab and flight test events, IPT meetings, software/hardware design reviews.
  • Review technical solutions, aircraft and ground system modifications and integration approaches, research and development approaches, and technology insertion in support of upgrade programs including and is not limited to, Size, Weight and Power (SWaP), mechanical and electrical interfacing, environmental compatibility, reliability/maintainability system integration trade-offs, life-cycle considerations, aircraft or other platform modification analyses, special testing, simulation, and verification processes.
  • Assess the performance of aeronautical and ground-based systems and associated subsystems and equipment.
  • Support all phases of subsystem and system-level integration and testing, construct and review of test plans and procedures, participation and oversight of integration and test activities, and analysis and evaluation of test results.
  • Assist in the management of depot maintenance requirements for sustainment of associated systems to include progression towards an organic depot.
  • Ensure new designs are sustainable, meet system requirements and requiring-office expectations; support the resolution of SWaP issues for RPA or similar vehicle / systems; support and / or special projects for new technologies; and provide technical and feasibility analyses for development, testing and fielding of RPAs or similar vehicles.
  • Support safety and accident investigations boards and act as a liaison between the USAF designated board and the system/subsystem manufacturer.
  • Coordinate with AFLCMC/WII, Det 3, other agencies, and contractor specialists on all design changes to ensure maintenance, SE, and TO impacts are adequately addressed.
  • Support the parts procurement process for all design changes by supporting procurement and fielding cost estimates and cost benefit analysis as early as possible.
  • Provide systems engineering and integration support extending across the aircraft, sensor and ground control systems with the ability to address mechanical, electrical, power, flight control systems, data links, network architectures and information assurance/security.
  • Provide support to the 24/7 Emergency Telephone Support line on a periodic basis and be available to commute to the General Atomics facility within 2 hours of an emergency phone call.
Requirements
  • Master's degree (MA/MS) and twelve years of experience in the respective technical / professional discipline being performed, five years of which must be in the DoD, OR, BA/BS degree, and fifteen years of experience in the respective technical/professional discipline being performed, five of which must be in the DoD
  • Must possess and maintain a Top-Secret/SCI government security clearance.
  • Must be proficient in the use of Microsoft Applications and other standard (Customer specified) applications.
Salary Range

$115,000 - $130,000

Equal Opportunity Employer

P E Systems, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for Employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, nation origin, ancestry, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, marital status and disability (including physical or mental disability as well as pregnancy) veteran status or any other status protected by the Federal, State or local law.



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