Systems Integration Engineer

Job: Systems Integration Engineer

Location: Grand Rapids, MI (Onsite)

Duration: Full Time

Requires: ACTIVE Top Secret/Secret Clearance

Job Description

The Ideal Candidate: A strategic and innovative engineer with an active (or recently inactive) US Security clearance and experience with systems integration of high design assurance embedded systems, capable of making well-judged decisions in a dynamic environment.

Responsibilities:

Systems Integration: Design, plan and execute integration activities of software and hardware optimizing performance, cost, quality and inter-operability.

Validation and Verification: Drive validation and verification planning activities for the overall product/system, including system-level testing according to industry standards (e.g. ARP4754).

System Integration Lab (SIL) Design and Build: Work with cross functional teams to develop a suite of models, simulations, and hardware interfaces used for testing systems against intended operational requirements.

Risk Management: Apply critical thinking toward the proactive identification and abatement of technical risk to minimize project impact.

Technical Expertise: Demonstrate expertise and knowledge within multiple technical domains in order to drive an analytical approach towards integration and verification of a holistic mission focused architectural solution.

Best Practices: Understand and develop best practices the accelerate LEAN operations and differentiators in the market.

Problem-Solving: Propose different solutions outside of set parameters to address complex problems.

Decision-Making: Use multiple internal and limited external sources outside of own teams to make decisions.

Resource for Colleagues: Act as a resource and mentor for less experienced colleagues.

Team Consensus Building: Develop skills to bring team members to consensus around topics within the field.

Communication: Report to senior leadership on technical status of ongoing projects.

Bids & Proposals: Respond to requests for information (RFI) and requests for proposal (RFP) providing estimates of resource costs and proposed technical approach.

Strategy Deployment: Support the development of product and technical roadmaps.

Customer Engagement: Work closely with the Program Manager (PM) and Engineering Project Manager (EPM) to collaborate with the customer throughout the project.

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related STEM field from an accredited university.

5+ years of systems engineering project execution experience.

5+ years product development experience.

Eligibility Requirement (s):

US Citizen & DoD Secret Clearance: This role requires use of technical data subject to U.S. Government contract restrictions and this posting is only for U.S. Citizens. GE will require proof of status prior to employment.

This role requires the successful candidate to obtain and maintain US Government Security Clearance; prerequisite for a security clearance is U.S. citizenship.

Applicants with Secret Clearance within the past 24 months may be eligible for consideration.

Desired Qualifications:

Experience working on military programs.

Experience with high design assurance embedded systems preferably in defense, safety critical automotive, aerospace or healthcare.

Hands-on capability to handle test equipment (power supplies, o-scopes, etc.), data bus capturing tools, scripting languages (Python, C, C#), source code (Assembly) and Excel data manipulation aspects (Condensing large amounts of information)).

Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems.

Knowledge of cybersecurity technologies

Experience with NSA certification processes

Awareness of aerospace standards and regulations such as DO-178, DO-254, etc..

Systems plan development experience (e.g. ARP4754).

Understanding and practice of basic project management concepts.

Master's degree in engineering from an accredited university or college.

Strong oral and written communication skills.

Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.

Experience leading and coordinating with internal and external partners.

Experience with global cross-functional teams and the ability to work individually and in teams.

Passionate about giving and receiving mentorship.

Notes:

System Engineer

Active Clearance

Looking for someone who can do system integration.

Build testbeds and make sure the system is verified and validated, that it works the way it's supposed to.

Need someone who has worked on electrical/Electronic system projects.

Cameo Software Skills or other software similar.

Model Based Systems

C++, Python

Defense projects avionics

System plan and development

Experience

Degree needed

5+ years of experience

Look at Drones, Ship, and Land Vehicle companies.