{"id":3297600,"url":"https://alion.io/job/american-systems-navair-systems-engineer-senior","title":"NAVAIR Systems Engineer, Senior","company":{"id":1945647,"name":"American Systems","domain":"americansystems.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/american-systems","size_band":"51-200","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"iCIMS","truth_index":null},"role":"Industrial Engineering","role_family":"Industrial Engineering","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":84000,"max_usd":159000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":6333},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agile","optional":false},{"name":"MBSE","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-26T22:19:01Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-26","last_verified_at":"2026-11-05T12:03:36Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":9,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":9},"description":"Overview\nAMERICAN SYSTEMS is an employee-owned federal government contractor supporting national priority programs through our strategic solutions in Information Technology, Test & Evaluation, Engineering & Analysis, and Training.\nAs our next Systems Engineer, SR for NAVAIR, you'll collaborate with talented professionals to create innovative, mission-critical solutions that empower naval aviation and defense operations. Your expertise will help shape cutting-edge systems, enhance national security, and drive technological advancement for our nation.\nResponsibilities\nThe program is focused on the replacement of legacy mission planning software and system architectures to achieve real-time collaboration, automation, and enhanced mission capabilities. The program is applying innovative software technologies, large scale Agile, and DevSecOps to revolutionize mission planning solutions and the deployment of those solutions to operational environments. You will be part of a dynamic and diverse team that will bring modern digital technologies to the planning, execution, and post-mission analysis.\nResponsibilities: The position is a Systems Engineering position (not a Software Engineering or Software Developer position)\nYou will apply systems engineering processes to the analysis, planning, development, verification, deployment, and documentation of modern mission planning software. \nYou will analyze a variety of current and next generation mission operation domains in order to translate these into requirements and system views using MBSE. \nYou will collaborate with leadership, other engineers, vendors, and software project leads in a large scale Agile SAFe workflow software development process to evolve user requirements into solutions that enhance the mission planning. \nYou will participate or lead working groups to address system safety and certification requirements and documentation for the software. \nYou will participate in working groups to document and address cyber and software security requirements. \nYou will participate or lead risk management tracking and mitigation for assigned efforts. \nYou will coordinate with test & evaluation activities to ensure that the mission planning solutions are sufficiently verified & validated. \nYou will directly coordinate with (and in many cases lead) action teams that will include SMEs, engineers, vendors, and operators to analyze, plan, and address engineering and software challenges for the program. \nYou will assist with vendor tasking, guidance, & oversight in the development of technical SOWs, participation with TIMs, PMRs, and review of CDRLs. \nYou will advise and assist NAVAIR executives, managers, and supervisors in the planning and implementation of systems engineering and digital engineering policy and guidance. \nYou will support project planning and technical cost estimates. \nYou will author reports, provide progress reviews, and brief Senior NAVAIR Leadership on status and technical analysis. \nQualifications\n Bachelor's degree from an accredited university; or technical/scientific degree with systems engineering experience on DoW program(s) \nJunior or Journey level experience working engineering activities for a technology program \nMust have a DoD Secret clearance with ability to obtain a Top Secret if necessary. Must be a U.S. Citizen.\nAbility to travel within CONUS up to 6 times per year.\nLocal to Pax River, NAS and able to make scheduled and adhoc meetings in person. \nExperience in any of the following areas is considered enhancing but is not required.\nWorking software development and sustainment programs. \nWorking DoD acquisition programs. \nExperience as a military aviator or serving in the Navy or Marine Corps \nExperience generating system requirements. \nExperience with DoD mission planning \nProducing and using Model Based Systems Engineering artifacts \nAgile or Agile SAFe processes\nPay Transparency Statement\nAMERICAN SYSTEMS is committed to pay transparency for our applicants and employee-owners. The salary range for this position is USD $105,000.00/Yr. - USD $145,000/Yr. Actual compensation will be determined based on several factors permitted by law. AMERICAN SYSTEMS provides for the welfare of its employees and their dependents through a comprehensive benefits program by offering healthcare benefits, paid leave, retirement plans, insurance programs, and education and training assistance.EEO Statement\nEEO Race/Sex/Disability Status/Veteran Status","description_format":"text","description_chars":4485,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":true,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Retirement plans"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["National Security","IT Consulting & Digital Transformation","Engineering Services"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-26T22:19:01Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":62,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.829,"p_room":0.75,"age_days":9,"expected_fill_days":10,"reasons":["conf:4","velocity","win:late","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-11-05T05:54:30Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/american-systems-navair-systems-engineer-senior","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/american-systems-navair-systems-engineer-senior.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-05T15:47:25Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":20679,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-06T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1945647},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1945647"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Famerican-systems-navair-systems-engineer-senior"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Famerican-systems-navair-systems-engineer-senior"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Famerican-systems-navair-systems-engineer-senior"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/american-systems-navair-systems-engineer-senior\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Famerican-systems-navair-systems-engineer-senior"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3297600}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"americansystems.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3297600},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. Docs: https://alion.io/developers"}}