Principal Systems Engineer - Embedded Communications (Onsite)

Date Posted:

2025-02-17

Country:

United States of America

Location:

HIN02: Ft Wayne IN 1010 Production Road , Fort Wayne, IN, 46808 USA

Position Role Type:

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 precisely that.

  

The Secure Processing Solutions (SPS) department is responsible for the design, test, and certification of cross-domain technologies and cryptographic products that 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 seeks a Systems Engineer with a passion for innovation and the drive to see new technology and capability matured into fielded solutions. This role will contribute to a team responsible for systems and cyber security engineering tasks related to our next-generation security-enabled mission computing, crypto, and cross-domain technologies, maturing products from low TRL through a program of record accreditation and factory production. 

There is no need to be an established subject matter expert. We are looking for talented individuals who love to problem-solve and 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:

• Collaborate with a dynamic team: Work alongside passionate and skilled professionals, as well as key internal and external stakeholders, to drive system engineering design and development for our cutting-edge Cross Domain Solutions product
• Lead secure system development: Engage in every phase of the secure systems development lifecycle, ensuring that customer requirements are efficiently translated into robust system and subsystem designs, all while balancing technical, scheduling, and cost constraints
• Manage cost and schedule: Take charge of cost account management for your assigned scope, closely tracking and reporting on costs, schedules, and key performance metrics to contribute to program earned value metrics and overall project success
• Drive Agile execution: Play an active role in Agile team ceremonies, facilitating sprint reviews, refining user stories, and leading end-of-sprint product demos to ensure continuous improvement and alignment with program goals
• Contribute to Agile leadership: Participate in a rotating role as Scrum Master or Product Owner, helping shape the development cadence and execution plans that guide our Agile teams toward success
• Lead technical conversations: Serve as a technical leader, guiding discussions with the program team and external customers, providing strategic insight and ensuring all technical and operational objectives are met
• Mentor and support colleagues: Actively mentor fellow engineers, fostering a collaborative learning environment while assisting with onboarding and training to elevate the team’s capabilities
• Maintain program excellence: Develop, maintain, and refine critical program ceremonies, documentation, and designs to ensure the continued success and integrity of the program 
• Travel expectations up to 10%

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!

Qualifications You Must Have: