Senior Systems Engineering Lead

PPT Solutions, Inc; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

PPT Solutions, Inc. in Huntsville, AL seeks a Senior Systems Engineering Lead to drive acquisition documentation, mature technical baselines, manage risk, and anchor the technical backbone of a Group 4+ UAS program through RFP release and source selection.

The role requires mastery of requirements development, MBSE, risk governance, and cross‑functional leadership across legal, contracting, safety, and engineering teams; you will lead SPS/SEP development and shape the IP/Data Rights strategy for

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering from an accredited program; 20 years relevant experience or Master's with 18 years.
• Ability to obtain and maintain U.S. security clearance.
• Advanced experience in DoW systems engineering, preferably with UAS, aviation, or complex weapon systems.
• Demonstrated leadership in acquisition documentation, including SEP, SPS, AP, and RFP technical sections.
• Expertise in MBSE, requirements decomposition, and digital engineering environments.
• Strong understanding of IP/Data Rights, sustainment strategies, and government contracting interfaces.
• Proven ability to lead risk management, technical working groups, and cross‑functional IPTs.
• Experience supporting source selection, evaluation criteria development, and technical review boards.
• Exceptional communication skills and ability to synthesize complex technical issues for senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Serve as primary technical integrator and acquisition engineering authority for Group 4+ UAS program.
• Lead development of SPS and SEP, IP/Data Rights strategy, and risk management framework.
• Coordinate cross‑functional collaboration across legal, contracting, safety, and engineering teams.
• Support source selection activities and evaluation planning to enable objective decisions.

Skills

Acquisition documentation

MBSE

Requirements decomposition

Risk governance

Cross-functional leadership

Technical evaluation planning

IP/Data Rights

Source selection support

Communication to senior leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Master's degree in engineering

Job description

This role is built for a systems engineering leader who can drive acquisition documentation, mature technical baselines, manage risk, and anchor the technical backbone of a major Group 4+ UAS program through RFP release and source selection. It reflects a high‑accountability, high‑visibility position requiring mastery of requirements development, MBSE, risk governance, and cross‑functional leadership.

The Senior Systems Engineering Lead for the Group 4+ UAS program serves as the primary technical integrator and acquisition engineering authority responsible for shaping, refining, and delivering all major technical artifacts required for the program’s RFP release, source selection, and early execution phases. This role leads development of the System Performance Specification (SPS), Systems Engineering Plan (SEP), IP/Data Rights strategy, and risk management framework, ensuring alignment with the MTA‑RP pathway and government acquisition objectives.

This position requires deep expertise in requirements decomposition, MBSE, risk governance, technical evaluation planning, and cross‑functional coordination across legal, contracting, safety, and engineering teams.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree + 20 years of relevant experience or a Master's Degree + 18 years of relevant experience.
  • Degree must be an engineering degree from an accredited program of study.
• Ability to obtain and maintain U.S. security clearance.
• Advanced experience inDoW systems engineering, preferably with UAS, aviation, or complex weapon systems.
• Demonstrated leadership in acquisition documentation, including SEP, SPS, AP, and RFP technical sections.
• Expertise in MBSE, requirements decomposition, and digital engineering environments.
• Strong understanding of IP/Data Rights, sustainment strategies, and government contracting interfaces.
• Proven ability to lead risk management, technical working groups, and cross‑functional IPTs.
• Experience supporting source selection, evaluation criteria development, and technical review boards.
• Exceptional communication skills and ability to synthesize complex technical issues for senior leadership.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience with MTA‑RP or rapid acquisition pathways.
• Familiarity with UAS mission sets, payload integration, and air‑vehicle performance analysis.
• Experience defending technical requirements during safety reviews or independent engineering assessments.
• Background in LSI strategy development or integration model trade‑space analysis.

Work Environment & Physical Demands:This job typically operates in a professional office environment with moderate noise level. This roleroutinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets andfax machines. This role may be required to remain stationary for extended periods of time. This role mayrequire lifting lightweight objects, typically used in an office environment, such as a computer laptop,files, or copy paper.

For some, acknowledged at hire and in support of specified contract tasks, this role may be required to
work outside in moderate weather conditions, stand/remain stationary for long hours, and climb in and
out of vehicles/aircraft. The noise level in this work environment ranges from moderate to loud and may
require protective devices such as wearing ear plugs. Specific vision abilities required include close vision,
distance vision and the ability to differentiate between colors.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to
successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to
enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

At PPT, we value our employees. You can take comfort in the fact that here you will be treated as a professional, given room to grow and compensated with a benefits package to care for you and your family. You have made the decision to do meaningful work and we believe you should be rewarded for that decision. Explore our website and learn more about what it means to be a part of PPT Solutions.

Benefits offered include medical, dental, vision, basic life w/AD&D, supplemental life, short and long‑term disability, EAP, FSA, 401(k), paid holidays, paid time off, employee referral award program and reimbursable job‑related education/professional certification training.

PPT Solutions, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

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