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Your work ensures compliance with DoD policies, nuclear surety requirements, and mission assurance standards, all while advising leadership on critical technical and acquisition decisions.\nIf you’re energized by solving hard systems problems, leading multidisciplinary teams, and safeguarding the nation’s strategic capabilities, this position puts you at the center of engineering excellence for one of the DoD’s most consequential programs.\nWhat You'll Do\nServe as principal technical advisor to the Branch Engineer and Program Manager on all systems engineering and architecture matters.\nSupport system integration efforts across propulsion, guidance, control, fire control, and launch subsystems.\n Support the Command Safety Working Group (CSWG) and ensure compliance with Nuclear Weapons System Surety and Safety requirements.\n Support Configuration & Data Management Governance by implementing Configuration Management (CM) policies and ensuring traceability from high-level requirements to test results and certification artifacts.\nEnsure design integrity through requirements traceability, verification, and validation processes.\n Support Engineering Review Boards (ERB), Risk and Opportunity Management Boards (ROMB), and Configuration Control Boards (CCB).\n Assist in the review and maintenance of the Systems Engineering Plan (SEP), Mission Assurance Plan, and Test and Evaluation Master Plan (TEMP) inputs.\nAssist in the oversight of Integration and Test efforts for the LOC missile, including hardware, instrumentation, data collection, post-test analysis, and ship integration.\nIdentify and mitigate technical risks across the system development and deployed lifecycle.\nEnsure technical rigor, compliance, and readiness for major technical and programmatic reviews for the LOC.\nAdvise on acquisition strategy, cost, schedule, technical trade-offs, and milestone documentation.\nMentor multidisciplinary government and contractor engineering teams to promote technical excellence and mission assurance.\nWhat You Bring to the Table\nA bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Aerospace, Electrical, Systems, or related discipline).\n15+ years of experience in defense system engineering with 5 years in a technical leadership role on an MDAP.\nAn Active Top Secret clearance (SCI eligibility required).\nExtensive knowledge of DoD 5000-series acquisition policies, including DoDI 3150.02, DoDI 5000.88, and 5000.02.\nDemonstrated experience in missile systems design, integration, and verification.\nProficiency in MBSE, digital engineering, and model-based data environments (Cameo, DOORS, Teamcenter).\nExcellent written and oral communication skills; 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