Systems Engineer

• Assemble radar sub-systems and components, cabling, and structural housing
• Perform standardized test procedures on RF equipment to verify equipment performance baselines
• Use experimental results in collaboration with NSSL scientists to refine the design
• Modify existing MATLAB or Python-based code, or write new code, to produce standard radar products such as Doppler velocity spectra plots
• Develop basic quality control methods for collected data
• Investigate incorporation of additional radar products to support data workflow and analysis
• Perform field testing to evaluate equipment performance in real-world conditions
• Implement design improvements based on testing feedback
• Collaborate with NSSL scientists, engineers, and external partners to validate against operational and experimental observations
• Assist NSSL staff in deploying other research systems
• Update technical schematics, maintain troubleshooting and testing logs, maintain code repositories, and draft test reports
• Prepare quarterly status reports
• Write a brief report following AMS guidelines
• Prepare and deliver a conference-style presentation to project stakeholders and at a national or international conference if possible

Radar Systems Engineer – Severe Weather Research

• Conduct comprehensive program portfolio reviews and evaluate alternative plans
• Enhance systems engineering processes and manage and sustain technical baselines
• Design and perform system-level tests to verify subsystem and system performance
• Prepare technical documentation, management reports, technical presentations, and corrective-action documentation
• Perform system validations and analyze major engineering system results
• Provide engineering, technical support, and training across acquisition, development, integration, sustainment, deployment, installation, and operations
• Support risk management activities aligned with AF SEAM processes
• Conduct formal trade studies involving performance, cost, lifecycle cost, reliability, maintainability, risk, and schedule
• Provide technical recommendations through reviews, studies, audits, evaluations, analyses, guidance, and documentation
• Analyze proposals for technical feasibility, compatibility, and cost-effectiveness
• Review ICDs, CDDs, CPDs, AoAs, CONOPs, technology development strategies, FCAs, PCAs, and technology standards profiles
• Analyze system concepts and user requirements in functional, allocated, and product baselines
• Support engineering technical processes including configuration control, requirements analysis, architecture design, integration, verification, validation, and decision analysis
• Manage risk, configuration, technical data, and interfaces
• Support technical reviews and develop Systems Engineering Plans and Risk Management Plans
• Prepare and review technical documentation, requirements, and engineering analyses for E-3/E-7 AWACS platforms
• Support modeling and simulation, capability evaluations, performance analyses, and subsystem studies
• Use Microsoft Office, SharePoint, and Agile collaboration tools to manage engineering data and workflow
• Collaborate with government personnel, military members, defense contractors, and E-7 engineering teams
• Communicate technical concepts in briefings, presentations, and stakeholder discussions
• Balance documentation, requirements analysis, and engineering support across geographically distributed teams
• Travel 20%
• Perform other duties as assigned

Senior Systems Engineer

• Manage a team of Certification Engineers and Analysts
• Lead the program’s development and execution of a complex certification strategy
• Lead cross-functional teams to resolve technical issues
• Coordinate and partner with the U.S. Air Force Program Office on regulatory strategies and issues
• Develop strategic action plans for changes to certification processes and execute them through completion
• Own, manage, and enable execution of certification process and procedure documents, including BPMs, BPIs, D6s, and D950s
• Coordinate across products, platforms, and functional areas to promote compliance with requirements, procedures, and regulatory guidance
• Develop the platform’s master compliance documentation, integrating and analyzing system, airframe, and interior-related compliance data
• Coordinate and negotiate with aviation regulators
• Integrate cross-functional engineering teams

Systems Engineering Certification Integration Manager – Level K

• Lead cross-functional teams to resolve technical issues
• Coordinate and partner with the U.S. Air Force Program Office on regulatory strategies and issues
• Develop strategic action plans for changes to certification processes and execute them through completion
• Own, manage, and enable execution of certification process/procedure documents, including BPMs, BPIs, D6s, and D950s
• Coordinate across products, platforms, and functional areas to promote compliance with requirements, procedures, and regulatory guidance
• Develop the platform's master compliance documentation, integrating and analyzing system, airframe, and interior-related compliance data
• Manage a team of Certification Engineers and Analysts leading development and execution of a complex certification strategy for the VC-25B program