Senior Systems Engineer - Submarine Program Lead

Serco; California (MD); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Serco Inc. in Washington, DC, seeks a Senior Systems Engineer to support the Navy's Virginia Class Submarine Program (PMS450).

This high-profile role offers collaboration across multidisciplinary teams to ensure design certification readiness and effective system integration for critical submarine programs. You will lead SIT coordination, manage requirements alignment, and provide technical summaries to program leadership while maintaining OQE and configuration management processes.

Qualifications

• Active or Current DoD Secret clearance.
• U.S. Citizenship.
• Bachelor's degree in a technical field (engineering, physics, etc).
• A High School Diploma/GED with 4 years of additional experience or an Associate’s degree with 2 years.
• 15 years of experience.
• Excellent communications and analytical skills; able to brief program officials.
• Experience briefing senior leaders.
• Proficient with MS Office products (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook).
• Ability to travel up to 10%.

Responsibilities

• Support NEWCON development and certification activities for Virginia Class Submarines within PMS450.
• Lead System Integration Team (SIT) coordination across multidisciplinary teams.
• Manage requirements alignment and ensure consistency across program documentation.
• Coordinate and support test and evaluation planning and execution activities.
• Review engineering deliverables for alignment with requirements and standards.
• Provide systems engineering analysis and coordinate with leadership.
• Facilitate stakeholder communication to align system requirements and objectives.
• Interface with PMS450 and related stakeholders for technical inquiries.
• Participate in technical meetings to resolve integration and execution issues.
• Maintain documentation routing, review, and concurrence processes.
• Maintain Objective Quality Evidence (OQE) for NEWCON design certification readiness.
• Support configuration management and design certification activities.
• Apply root cause analysis to system-level issues.
• Present technical summaries and recommendations.

Skills

DoD security clearance

Citizenship: US

Executive briefing

MS Office proficiency

System integration

Technical communication

Travel up to 10%

Education

Bachelor's in technical field

High School Diploma + 4 years experience

Associate’s degree + 2 years experience

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Serco Inc. in Washington, DC, seeks a Senior Systems Engineer to support the Navy's Virginia Class Submarine Program (PMS450).

This high-profile role offers collaboration across multidisciplinary teams to ensure design certification readiness and effective system integration for critical submarine programs. You will lead SIT coordination, manage requirements alignment, and provide technical summaries to program leadership while maintaining OQE and configuration management processes.