Principal System Engineer

Cornerstone Defense LLC; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) plan with company match

Tuition and training assistance

Paid vacation/leave

Fitness reimbursement program

College savings plan

Commuter benefits

Job summary

Cornerstone Defense LLC is seeking a Principal System Engineer to ensure system requirements achieve validation while interacting with agile development teams. The role requires executing various engineering activities, including software development support and performance analysis.

The ideal candidate should have a bachelor's degree in STEM and 8 years of relevant experience, and possess an active TS/SCI security clearance. Company benefits include a 401(k) plan, tuition assistance, and paid leave.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a bachelor’s degree in science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and 8 years of prior relevant experience.
• Experience with requirement creation and documentation of systems interfaces.
• Active and transferable TS/SCI U.S. government issued security clearance required.

Responsibilities

• Execute multiple aspects of the systems engineering discipline.
• Interact with the agile development teams regarding technical considerations.
• Perform engineering activities utilizing agile tools and Cloud environments.

Skills

Systems engineering

Agile development

Requirements traceability

Cloud environments

JIRA

Confluence

Education

Bachelor’s degree in STEM

Tools

Cameo

Job description

Principal System Engineer

Richardson, TX or State College, PA

Active TS/SCI

Compensation Range: $140,000 - $170,000

Job Responsibilities

• The principal systems engineer will execute multiple aspects of the systems engineering discipline, to include support of software development activities, requirements traceability into software functions, system performance analysis, and system integration and test activities to ensure system requirements achieve validation.
• The system engineer will interact with the agile development teams regarding technical considerations, risks, and issue closure associated with the system capabilities and features.
• The candidate must also possess the ability to adapt to rapidly changing circumstances, effectively network, and communicate to the appropriate levels of the organization and support schedules and delivery milestones.
• Perform engineering activities utilizing agile tools: JIRA, CONFLUENCE, JAMA.
• Perform engineering activities utilizing Cloud environments, tools, and associated procedures.

Basic Qualifications

• Typically requires a bachelor’s degree in science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and 8 years of prior relevant experience, OR an Advanced degree and 5 years of relevant experience.
• Experience performing engineering activities within the full software development engineering lifecycle utilizing the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) development methods as a System Engineer.
• Experience with requirement creation as well as decomposition of capabilities into features and the development of acceptance criteria for software and test development teams to ensure all requirements have a path for verification via acceptance criteria.
• Experience documenting systems interfaces, network routing details and developing system architecture artifacts, Experience in agile development activities, including requirements specification and integration test and verification activities (full life cycle).
• Active and transferable TS/SCI U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Intelligence Community GEOINT, including familiarity with common data formats and products.
• Experience in SIGINT, GEOINT, or Multi-INT IC background analysis with end user mission experience.
• Experience in a technical leadership role of a large multi-disciplined engineering team.
• Experience with cloud-based system and S/W architectures.
• Experience with requirements management and/or backlog management and grooming in JIRA.
• Experience in Multi-INT Sensemaking, Orchestration, and Processing concepts.
• Experience in development of containerized software system architectures.
• Experience using MBSE processes and tools to digitally capture systems design and elaboration in Cameo or similar tools.

Company Benefits

• 401(k) plan with company match
• Tuition and training assistance
• Paid vacation/leave
• Fitness reimbursement program
• College savings plan
• Commuter benefits