Senior or Principal Systems Engineer

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Teledyne Technologies Incorporated provides enabling technologies for industrial growth markets that require advanced technology and high reliability. These markets include aerospace and defense, factory automation, air and water quality environmental monitoring, electronics design and development, oceanographic research, deepwater oil and gas exploration and production, medical imaging and pharmaceutical research.​

We are looking for individuals who thrive on making an impact and want the excitement of being on a team that wins.

Job Description

Job Summary:

Seeking a talented Senior or Principal Systems Engineer (depending on years of experience in systems Engineering) to work in systems engineering team to lead US Government (USG) Department of Defense (DOD) full system engineering efforts in program and product development. In this role, you will work to understand customer needs, identify & manage performance requirements, and provide overall customer satisfaction. You will contribute technical expertise, drive innovation, oversee all technical work, including setting, maintaining design Specifications and requirements, and incorporating the latest design methods and tools to improve internal and external design practices. You will provide technical leadership in all phases of product development, including product definition, architecture, design, layout, and production support.

Primary work location can be either: Billerica, MA or Wilsonville, OR.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

• Lead full-system technical activities on medium-to-large product or program development efforts through the complete life cycle.
• Serve as the technical conscience (Chief Engineer) of the program, leading technical dialogue with customer counterparts throughout all program phases.
• Develop and maintain Systems Engineering Management Plans (SEMPs).
• Create and manage project and product specifications.
• Provide technical and schedule risk assessments to the program office.
• Oversee subsystem specification flow-down; perform requirements analysis and decomposition; ensure requirements are verifiable and testable; allocate requirements to lower-level specifications; and manage requirements tracking and compliance through design and test phases.
• Translate and interpret customer specifications to the project engineering team throughout the design and test phases of the program.
• Provide systems engineering leadership to ensure optical, mechanical, software, and electrical designs conform to overall system requirements.
• Work closely with program and project management to ensure compliance with specifications and on-time delivery within budget.
• Ensure technical activities remain within program scope.
• Lead technical efforts for major program reviews, including Program Kickoff Meetings (KOMs), System Requirements Reviews (SRRs), Preliminary Design Reviews (PDRs), Critical Design Reviews (CDRs), Test Readiness Reviews (TRRs), and Production Readiness Reviews (PRRs).
• Track Key Performance Parameters (KPPs) and generate and manage action plans to ensure compliance.
• Make significant contributions to technical presentations, technical reports, analyses, and customer proposals.
• Integrate innovative technical solutions to satisfy market and customer requirements, including performance, cost, manufacturability, quality, and time to market.
• Coordinate with external vendors on technical matters for both standard and custom products and development efforts.
• Contribute as a core member of the program or product development leadership team.
• Lead and contribute to the development of new Electro-Optical / Infrared (EO/IR) sensor products, including concept definition, radiometric system design and analysis, imaging characterization, image non-uniformity correction, optical engineering, performance modeling, and prototype performance validation.
• Perform optical analyses and/or lead optical systems development for product groups.
• Create system specifications and test plans with emphasis on sensor technology, optical systems, and system integration and test; flow down system specifications to subsystems.
• Lead or oversee DoD system verification, validation, and qualification activities; develop test plans and procedures that verify all system and subordinate requirements; ensure test plans and procedures are achievable, practical, and affordable; and lead failure analysis, root cause determination, and corrective actions resulting from qualification testing.
• Plan systems engineering staffing across all phases of the program; collaborate with engineering and quality disciplines on staffing recommendations.