Senior Systems Engineer

Position Summary

Kearfott Corporation’s Guidance & Navigation Division in Pine Brook, NJ, is seeking an experienced Senior Systems Engineer to lead the definition, design, integration, and verification of advanced systems for aircraft, UAVs, missiles, land vehicles, and sea platforms.

The Senior Systems Engineer provides technical leadership across the system lifecycle, from customer needs and concept development through system architecture, requirements, integration, verification, and production. The role coordinates multidisciplinary hardware and software teams and applies system modeling practices to develop, analyze, and communicate system designs. The engineer also works directly with commercial and military customers on technical program definition and execution.

Essential Functions

• Lead systems engineering activities across programs, applying established processes and improving their use across the lifecycle.
• Lead the decomposition, allocation, analysis, and management of customer and stakeholder requirements into system and subsystem requirements.
• Develop and maintain system architectures, including functional, logical, behavioral, and physical views as appropriate.
• Use system tools to support requirements traceability, interface definition, design analysis, trade studies, impact assessment, and verification planning.
• Define and manage system interfaces, including hardware, software, firmware, electrical, mechanical, and external platform interfaces.
• Coordinate system design and development activities across multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Plan and lead system integration, verification, and validation activities, including laboratory and field testing.
• Provide technical leadership from concept development through production, resolving complex system-level issues and communicating risks and decisions.
• Support new business pursuits and proposal preparation, including technical requirements, system concepts, schedules, cost estimates, and technical writing.
• Manage technical schedules and costs for assigned projects and coordinate with program and functional leaders to address changes and risks.
• Work with commercial and military customers on technical program definition, design reviews, integration, and execution.
• Identify and communicate technical, cost, or schedule issues to appropriate stakeholders, and recommend paths to resolution.
• Contribute to systems engineering and configuration management process improvements and company initiatives.
• Travel approximately 15% for customer reviews and meetings.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace, Computer, Electrical, Systems Engineering, or a related engineering field.
• 4+ years of experience in aerospace or defense systems engineering, including system integration and verification.
• Significant experience developing, analyzing, allocating, and managing system requirements and coordinating system interfaces.
• Demonstrated experience leading systems engineering work across multidisciplinary teams and across multiple phases of the product lifecycle.
• Experience planning or leading hardware and software integration, verification, or test activities in laboratory or field environments.
• Experience with requirements management tools such as DOORS.
• Familiarity with communication bus standards such as MIL-STD-1553, ARINC-429, RS-422, Ethernet, or SpaceWire.
• Familiarity with software or firmware development standards such as DO-178B/C or DO-254.
• Strong written and verbal communication, technical writing, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to support project planning and control, customer interactions, technical presentations, and design reviews.
• Must be a US Citizen.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Aerospace, Computer, Electrical, or Systems Engineering.
• Experience with inertial navigation, INS, IMUs, or GPS applications, particularly for avionics platforms.
• Experience with SysML and MBSE tools such as Cameo Systems Modeler or equivalent system modeling software.
• Experience integrating system models with requirements management, configuration management, and verification processes.
• Aerospace or defense systems engineering experience involving requirements, architecture, interfaces, integration, verification, and technical coordination.
• Experience with DOORS, Microsoft Project, and Microsoft Office.
• MATLAB experience.
• Knowledge of military and FAA standards, including DO-178B/C and DO-254.