Senior Systems Engineer – Secure Processing Solutions (Onsite)

Date Posted:

2024-06-11

Country:

United States of America

Location:

HIA32: Cedar Rapids, IA 400 Collins Rd NE , Cedar Rapids, IA, 52498-0505 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

Do you want to be a part of something bigger? A team whose impact stretches across the world, and even beyond? At Collins Aerospace, our Mission Systems team helps civilian, military and government customers complete their most complex missions — whatever and wherever they may be. Our customers depend on us for intelligent and secure communications, missionized systems for specialized aircraft and spacecraft and collaborative space solutions. By joining our team, you’ll have your own critical part to play in ensuring our customer succeeds today while anticipating their needs for tomorrow. Are you up for the challenge? Join our mission today.

Senior Systems Engineer – Secure Processing Solutions (Onsite)

Our nation's security depends on the sacrifice of the men and women who defend our country. For them to do this effectively, they need the technology that keeps them a step ahead of their adversaries. This means providing secure yet technologically advanced equipment to our service personnel, fielded as quickly as possible. Our commitment is to do exactly that.

The Secure Processing Solutions (SPS) department is responsible for the design, test and certification of secure mission computers, cross domain technologies, and cryptographic products which equip our warfighters to thrive in today’s multi-domain battlespace. Our department collaborates with portfolio teams across the organization to help capture new business and create security hardened solutions that address our customers’ demanding needs.

The SPS Systems Engineering team is seeking a Systems Engineer who has a passion for innovation and the drive to see new technology and capability matured into fielded solutions. This role will contribute to a team that is responsible for systems and cyber security engineering tasks related to our next generation security enabled mission computing, crypto, and cross domain technologies, maturing product from low TRL through program of record accreditation and factory production.

No need to be an established subject matter expert, we are looking for talented individuals that love to problem solve and have a desire to grow and gain exposure to new skills. Our customers come from all different backgrounds, and so do our employees. If you're passionate about what you could accomplish here, we'd love to hear from you.

What YOU will do:

• YOU will work closely with a highly motivated and dedicated team of professionals and other internal/external stakeholders while executing system engineering design and development activities for our Cross Domain Solutions product.
• YOU will have the opportunity to participate in the secure systems development lifecycle, including trade study execution, system design, requirements definition, requirements allocation, requirement traceability, systems integration, verification testing and qualification.
• YOU will contribute to the development and cadence of AGILE execution plans that are in compliance with program cost and schedule needs; understand risks and variances and assist in the development of mitigation plans; become 100% involved in the day-to-day execution of the Cross Domain product development. 
• YOU will perform cost account management for assigned scope and be cognizant for assigned cost and schedule, reporting status, key performance metrics, and discussion of issues and concerns.
• YOU will participate in and facilitate Agile team ceremonies, Agile sprint reviews, user story refinement and end of sprint product demos.

What YOU will learn:

• You will gain technical leadership experience, mentorship opportunities, and exposure to very influential individuals within Mission Systems that will help advance your career.
• You will obtain invaluable experience working with our secure processing subject matter experts in addition to security certification specialists, our customer base, and our product line engineering teams, learning exactly what it takes to deliver a security hardened product in a world where cyber resiliency is critical to success.
• You can take flight to becoming knowledgeable in security hardened products with exposure to the variety of business and products in an ever-evolving field. We are growing, so can you!

Education & Experience

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and 5 years of prior relevant experience OR in absence of a degree, 9 years of relevant experience is required.
• The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. gov