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Our AI, cloud, cyber, and modernization solutions save agencies thousands of hours, safeguard national security, and strengthen health and humanitarian missions worldwide. With more than 1,700+ team members, 1,500+ AI & data experts, and 100+ prime contracts, we deliver on a scale and with purpose.\nWe’ve been recognized as a Top Workplace by The Washington Post for six consecutive years and named to the Inc. 5000 list of Fastest-Growing Private Companies in 13 of the past 14 years. Credence is a welcoming environment for those looking to grow and make a meaningful impact. We encourage employees to push boundaries and help solve critical, world-changing federal challenges.\nCredence has an immediate need for a Systems Engineering Manager to support Army PM PNT. This position will provide technical leadership and oversight of systems engineering activities across the product life cycle, guiding engineering processes, coordinating technical efforts, managing risk, and advising leadership on decisions affecting performance, cost, schedule, and integration.\nOverview\nLead the development, implementation, and maintenance of systems engineering processes and documentation, including Systems Engineering Plans (SEPs), configuration management plans, risk management plans, and integrated master plans, ensuring alignment with product objectives and integrated master schedules (IMS).\nOversee systems engineering activities for classified and unclassified PM PNT products, including concept development; requirements analysis, development, derivation, and documentation; system design and architecture; modeling and simulation; integration, test, and evaluation; hardware and software validation; host platform integration; and field demonstrations.\nLead engineering coordination for technical reviews, including Software Specification Reviews (SSR), System Requirements Reviews (SRR), System Functional Reviews (SFR), Preliminary Design Reviews (PDR), Critical Design Reviews (CDR), Production Readiness Reviews (PRR), Functional Configuration Audits (FCA), and Physical Configuration Audits (PCA). Assess technical readiness, recommend improvements, and oversee resolution of engineering issues and review actions.\nGuide engineering participation in Integrated Product Teams (IPTs), working groups, and technical meetings, coordinating inputs from subject matter experts and developing actionable recommendations for PM PNT leadership.\nOversee the integration of PM PNT products with client systems on Army platforms, addressing operational benefits and constraints, interoperability with current and emerging warfighting capabilities, sustainment, and doctrine, organization, training, materiel, leadership and education, personnel, and facilities (DOTMLPF) impacts.\nEnsure systems engineering activities and documentation align with applicable DoD guidance and regulations and the systems engineering principles of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Standard 1220.\nGuide the development, review, and maintenance of Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) products and other engineering artifacts, ensuring consistency across requirements, architectures, configurations, and program plans.\nLead technical assessments of existing products and emerging PNT and augmentation technologies. Evaluate requirements, materiel solutions, applications, strategies, tactics, and training to determine technical feasibility and alignment with product performance objectives, cost goals, and schedules.\nProvide engineering oversight and recommendations for sensor design; hardware, software, and network integration; experimentation; and demonstrations of PM PNT products and technologies.\nOversee engineering review and technical input for acquisition documentation submitted through PM PNT leadership, including Statements of Objectives (SOOs), Statements of Work (SOWs), Performance Work Statements (PWSs), performance specifications, and associated solicitation documentation. Provide technical advice and assistance during proposal evaluations.\nOversee the review of technical data artifacts for acceptability, maintain product-data relationships, and guide the establishment and maintenance of requirements databases supporting customer requirements analysis, product planning, systems engineering, and configuration management.\nExpected duties include but are not limited to...\nSupport the Director of Systems Engineering in establishing and updating engineering standards and interfaces, defining and implementing knowledge management practices, and establishing digital engineering policy.\nLead evaluations of complex technical problems, integrate input from subject matter experts, and present findings, alternatives, risks, and recommendations to support O6-level decisions.\nCoordinate engineering priorities, dependencies, and technical actions across stakeholders to advance program objectives and resolve issues affecting execution.\nExercise independent judgment and critical thinking to manage engineering efforts toward leadership’s overarching intent, identifying when decisions require leadership input and elevating issues with clear recommendations.\nRequirements\nActive secret security clearance is required\nBachelor’s degree in engineering or systems engineering field with ten years’ (10) experience, or a master’s degree with eight years’ (8) experience in systems engineering for DoD systems\nSalary Range: $160,000- $200,000 annually. 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