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These include products such as the design and fabrication of linear motors, superconducting and conventional rotating motors, power inverters, high-energy capacitors, radiation monitoring systems, high-voltage direct current power distribution systems, and numerous other products.We have an exciting opportunity in our Aerospace Systems Engineering directorate for a full-time Chief Engineer to lead the design and development of one or more new weapon systems such as cruise missiles, air defense missiles, dispensing submunitions, gun-launched projectiles, and hypersonic glide weapons. The successful candidate will provide technical expertise to multi-disciplinary teams that may be geographically distributed between Huntsville, AL, Centennial, CO, Fredericksburg, VA, Oxford, MS, and San Diego, CA. The work location for this position is in Huntsville, AL at our office in Cummings Research Park.\nDUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:\nProvide weapon systems expertise to guide systems engineering; design engineering (electrical, mechanical, flight software, RF, EO/IR, warhead/lethality); guidance, navigation and control; modeling and simulation; and Assembly, Integration and Test (AIT) efforts for the development of missile/weapon system prototypes.\nCollaborate daily with GA and customer engineering and program management teams\nCollaborate with subcontractor teams to guide and monitor their progress during the weapon system development effort\nElicit stakeholder needs from government and industry customers and define Concept of Operations and System Architecture to meet those needs\nCollaborate with Lead Systems Engineer to define systems engineering approach to be used for the weapon system development\nWith the assistance of a master scheduler and in coordination with subsystem leads, develop Integrated Milestone Schedules (IMS) to complete the weapon system program scope of work, milestones and deliverables within the allocated budget and timeline\nReview and refine system, subsystem, and component level requirements for hardware and software configuration items\nReview and refine verification cross-reference matrices, Master Test Plan, acceptance criteria, and test objectives\nReview and refine mechanical, electrical, and logical Interface Control Documents (ICDs) for weapon system applications\nDefine system and subsystem level trade studies to be completed to refine the weapon system design; review trade study results and make informed technical design decisions based on trade study and analysis results\nLead weekly weapon system level engineering working groups to capture status of design, development, integration and testing activities; resolve complex technical problems facing the engineering team; and ensure risks are being mitigated in accordance with program risk and opportunity management plans\nSupport the planning, development and execution of major program technical reviews including System Requirements Reviews, System Functional Reviews, Preliminary Design Reviews, Critical Design Reviews, Integration Readiness Reviews, Test Readiness Reviews, and Pre-Ship Readiness Reviews to include reviewing and tailoring entrance and exit criteria; reviewing objective evidence; and developing, reviewing, and presenting briefing materials.\nLead definition of Key Performance Parameters, Technical Performance Metrics and other similar technical measures of health/progress for weapon system projects\nSupport definition of failure modes, effects and criticality for weapon systems, subsystems, and components\nSupport development and review of weapon system design and development content for proposals, Request For Information (RFI) responses, and other technical white papers\nDemonstrate strong communication skills with and between customers, team members, task leads, functional managers, and program management to facilitate rapid resolution of technical and program issues\nServe as the technical lead on one or more development projects\nMake technical presentations during working groups and peer reviews, or to senior management or customers, as required\nMentor less experienced engineers in weapon system design best practices; 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