Principal Systems Engineer

General Overview […] is seeking a highly skilled Principal Engineering to provide engineering oversight for target system payloads and countermeasure development. In this role, you will act as a trusted advisor to the program office, delivering critical assessments of prime contractor designs, technical plans, and target instrumentation layouts. You will serve as a technical anchor during major program milestones—from System

through Product Acceptance—while seamlessly collaborating across multiple organizations, modeling teams, cost analysts, and schedulers to ensure items are delivered accurately and on time. What You'll Be Doing: Engineering Oversight & Design Assessment Expert Advisory: Serve as the technical expert on payload and countermeasure requirements development, analysis, design, qualification, and fielding. Independent Evaluation: Review and provide assessments of prime contractor designs, plans, reports, and technical procedures.

Instrumentation Analysis: Evaluate target instrumentation requirements, physical layouts, component selection, and testing methodologies Program Milestone & Lifecycle Support Milestone Reviews: Provide technical evaluation and engineering support during all major program milestones (including SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, FRB, MRB, and PAR). Cross-Agency Coordination: Answer technical inquiries from external MDA organizations and lead multi-disciplinary Technical Interchange Meetings (TIMs). Program Management & Operations Collab