Principal Systems Engineer
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Location: Torrance, CA 90503
Description:
Job Title: Principal Systems Engineer
Job Description
We are seeking an experienced Principal Systems Engineer to design and manufacture novel RF systems for a variety of platforms in a rapid development environment. This multidisciplinary role involves significant interaction with all engineering disciplines and covers everything from customer needs to unit-level specifications. The focus will be on typical Systems Engineering responsibilities, including requirements definition and management, system architecture, system analysis, change management, and interface definition. Additionally, you will play a key role in integration, verification, and validation (IV&V) planning and execution to ensure products meet requirements. A Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) approach is employed to make processes more thorough and efficient. Our fast-moving technology company focuses on supporting other engineering teams and facilitating rapid development.
Responsibilities
This position is fully onsite in Torrance, CA. We offer a high-growth environment with cutting-edge technology and minimal competition. Benefits include free lunch catered every day, occasional work-from-home flexibility, unlimited PTO, stock options, a 6% 401k match, and end-of-year cash bonuses and salary increases based on personal and company performance. Our Client is dedicated to overcoming the asymmetric challenges inherent to the future of national security.
Pay and Benefits
The pay range for this position is $160000.00 - $200000.00/yr.
Employee Value Prop (EVP):
Free lunch catered every day
Cutting edge technology with not many competitors
Can occasionally allow someone to work from home if they have something they need to do that day, but most weeks are 5 days onsite
Unlimited PTO
Stock options
6% 401k match
EOY cash bonus and salary increase based on personal performance and company performance
o In the last 3 years, lowest has been 4% for both and highest has been 10% for both, but because they got Series D funding this year, they expect it to be a big year / likely higher than 10%
Workplace Type
This is a fully onsite position in Torrance,CA.
Application Deadline
This position is anticipated to close on Apr 30, 2025.
About Actalent
Actalent is a global leader in engineering and sciences services and talent solutions. We help visionary companies advance their engineering and science initiatives through access to specialized experts who drive scale, innovation and speed to market. With a network of almost 30,000 consultants and more than 4,500 clients across the U.S., Canada, Asia and Europe, Actalent serves many of the Fortune 500.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
At Actalent, diversity and inclusion are a bridge towards the equity and success of our people. DE&I are embedded into our culture through:
The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.
If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation, such as the modification or adjustment of the job application process or interviewing process due to a disability, please email actalentaccommodation@actalentservices.com for other accommodation options.
Job Description
We are seeking an experienced Principal Systems Engineer to design and manufacture novel RF systems for a variety of platforms in a rapid development environment. This multidisciplinary role involves significant interaction with all engineering disciplines and covers everything from customer needs to unit-level specifications. The focus will be on typical Systems Engineering responsibilities, including requirements definition and management, system architecture, system analysis, change management, and interface definition. Additionally, you will play a key role in integration, verification, and validation (IV&V) planning and execution to ensure products meet requirements. A Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) approach is employed to make processes more thorough and efficient. Our fast-moving technology company focuses on supporting other engineering teams and facilitating rapid development.
Responsibilities
- Own system requirements for a product, including requirement definition and maintenance.
- Ensure Key Performance Parameters are properly flowed to system requirements.
- Act as a key interface with either existing or prospective customers to ensure customer requirements are fully satisfied.
- Coordinate key requirements with subsystem design teams, ensuring requirement flow-down to hardware and software subsystems is captured and properly traced.
- Collaborate with design engineering to establish the system architecture, capturing it in MBSE diagrams (including Structural and Behavioral Diagrams).
- Maintain architectural definition throughout the development process to ensure team alignment.
- Develop interface control documentation and manage interfaces between hardware/software/firmware subsystems.
- Perform trade studies and quick-turn impact analyses to facilitate agile hardware/software/firmware development.
- Perform analysis to prove system requirements are addressed by the system design.
- Ensure best practices for configuration management are adhered to.
- Facilitate multi-discipline coordination across teams.
- Participate in IV&V planning and preparation.
- Contribute technical writing and figures to proposals and other business development efforts.
- Experience writing systems requirements from scratch and linking them together using requirements management tools/software such as DOORS, CAMEO, JAMA, Polarion, Magic Draw, etc.
- Experience conducting trade studies and making requirements decisions.
- Experience seeing a system through the full lifecycle / V-cycle.
- Experience with systems verification and validation.
- US Citizenship required.
- BS or MS degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Aerospace, or similar field.
- 8+ years of industry experience, preferably spanning the entire product lifecycle (Concept to Delivery).
- Demonstrated experience establishing the technical baseline of a system/product.
- Experience working with Systems Engineering tools for Requirements Management and Product Lifecycle Management (e.g., JAMA, Polarion, DOORS).
- Experience working with MBSE (e.g., SparxEA, Capella).
- Experience with Python development or other similar object-oriented languages.
- Experience working with Git/GitHub, or similar version control systems.
- Ability to identify gaps, prioritize in the context of the project/program, and lead an effort involving multiple engineers from other teams to resolve issues.
- Mission integration and mission analysis experience.
- Systems architecture experience.
- Hardware-in-the-loop (HTIL / HWIL / HIL) experience.
- Experience with payload interfacing.
- Mix of DoD prime traditional contractor work and space startups.
- Experience with RF systems (e.g., radar, comms, EW), preferably including phased arrays.
- Good written and oral communication skills.
- Collaborative and capable of working across all levels of the organization.
- Ability to anticipate and communicate blockers, delays, and cost ballooning within the project before they require escalation.
- Eager to train team members and help them overcome obstacles, resolve blockers, and complete work tasks.
This position is fully onsite in Torrance, CA. We offer a high-growth environment with cutting-edge technology and minimal competition. Benefits include free lunch catered every day, occasional work-from-home flexibility, unlimited PTO, stock options, a 6% 401k match, and end-of-year cash bonuses and salary increases based on personal and company performance. Our Client is dedicated to overcoming the asymmetric challenges inherent to the future of national security.
Pay and Benefits
The pay range for this position is $160000.00 - $200000.00/yr.
Employee Value Prop (EVP):
Free lunch catered every day
Cutting edge technology with not many competitors
Can occasionally allow someone to work from home if they have something they need to do that day, but most weeks are 5 days onsite
Unlimited PTO
Stock options
6% 401k match
EOY cash bonus and salary increase based on personal performance and company performance
o In the last 3 years, lowest has been 4% for both and highest has been 10% for both, but because they got Series D funding this year, they expect it to be a big year / likely higher than 10%
Workplace Type
This is a fully onsite position in Torrance,CA.
Application Deadline
This position is anticipated to close on Apr 30, 2025.
About Actalent
Actalent is a global leader in engineering and sciences services and talent solutions. We help visionary companies advance their engineering and science initiatives through access to specialized experts who drive scale, innovation and speed to market. With a network of almost 30,000 consultants and more than 4,500 clients across the U.S., Canada, Asia and Europe, Actalent serves many of the Fortune 500.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
At Actalent, diversity and inclusion are a bridge towards the equity and success of our people. DE&I are embedded into our culture through:
- Hiring diverse talent
- Maintaining an inclusive environment through persistent self-reflection
- Building a culture of care, engagement, and recognition with clear outcomes
- Ensuring growth opportunities for our people
The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.
If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation, such as the modification or adjustment of the job application process or interviewing process due to a disability, please email actalentaccommodation@actalentservices.com for other accommodation options.