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It reflects a high-accountability, high-visibilityposition requiring mastery of requirements development, MBSE, risk governance, and cross-functional leadership.\nThe Senior Systems Engineering Lead for the Group 4+ UAS program serves as the primary technical integrator and acquisition engineering authorityresponsible 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.\nThis position requires deep expertise in requirements decomposition, MBSE, risk governance, technical evaluation planning, and cross-functional coordinationacross legal, contracting, safety, and engineering teams.\nRequired Qualifications\nBachelor'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.\n\nAbility to obtain and maintain U.S. security clearance.\nAdvanced experience in DoW systems engineering, preferably with UAS, aviation, or complex weapon systems.\nDemonstrated leadership in acquisition documentation, including SEP, SPS, AP, and RFP technical sections.\nExpertise in MBSE, requirements decomposition, and digital engineering environments.\nStrong understanding of IP/Data Rights, sustainment strategies, and government contracting interfaces.\nProven ability to lead risk management, technical working groups, and cross-functional IPTs.\nExperience supporting source selection, evaluation criteria development, and technical review boards.\nExceptional communication skills and ability to synthesize complex technical issues for senior leadership.\nPreferred Qualifications\nPrior experience with MTA-RPor rapid acquisition pathways.\nFamiliarity with UAS mission sets, payload integration, and air-vehicle performance analysis.\nExperience defending technical requirements during safety reviewsor independent engineering assessments.\nBackground in LSI strategy developmentor integration model trade-space analysis.\nWork Environment & Physical Demands: This job typically operates in a professional office environment with moderate noise level. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines. This role may be required to remain stationary for extended periods of time. This role may require lifting lightweight objects, typically used in an office environment, such as a computer laptop, files, or copy paper.\nFor some, acknowledged at hire and in support of specified contract tasks, this role may be required to\nwork outside in moderate weather conditions, stand/remain stationary for long hours, and climb in and\nout of vehicles/aircraft. The noise level in this work environment ranges from moderate to loud and may\nrequire protective devices such as wearing ear plugs. Specific vision abilities required include close vision,\ndistance vision and the ability to differentiate between colors.\nThe physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to\nsuccessfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to\nenable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.\nAt 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.\nBenefits 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.\nPPT Solutions, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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