Systems Research and Development Engineer

• Translate stakeholder needs into system-level requirements and architectures
• Perform analysis of alternatives and develop system concepts for hardware‑centric undersea platforms and payloads
• Conduct system and requirements decomposition, interface definition, and integration planning
• Support model-based systems engineering (MBSE), system modeling, and hardware/software integration
• Develop verification and validation strategies, test plans, and test procedures for physical prototypes and fielded systems
• Participate in and support lab, dockside, and at-sea test events
• Collaborate regularly with engineering teams, program sponsors, Navy partners, and program management
• Identify risks, develop mitigation strategies, and support lifecycle decision-making

• Applying systems engineering to complex physical systems, preferably in defense, aerospace, maritime, or robotics domains
• Experience collaborating in multi-disciplinary, team-oriented cultures
• Ability to express ideas successfully to drive understanding
• Past success in writing white papers or reports
• Past success in a lead role, organizing, managing, and directing, multi-disciplinary teams, while contributing and assisting in project management
• Past success while leading or contributing to technical proposals and white papers

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace, Computer, Systems Engineering or related engineering discipline
• Unmanned underwater systems development
• Hardware integration, prototype testing, or system-level test events
• Past success using requirements and MBSE tools (Cameo, DOORS, Jama, etc.)
• Working knowledge of DoD acquisition, especially Department of the Navy systems engineering processes
• Exposure to environmental qualification, hardware-in-the-loop testing, or embedded system integration
• Current eligibility for access to classified information at the Secret level or higher and may be subject to a government background investigation to upgrade clearance eligibility, if required

ARL’s purpose is to research and develop innovative solutions to challenging scientific, engineering, and technology problems in support of the Navy, the Intel Community (IC), and other federal government customers.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION on ARL, visit our website at www.arl.psu.edu.

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