EO/IR Pointing & Tracking - Systems Engineering Lead

Preferred Skills and Education

• Experience with gimbaled or stabilized electro-optical systems.
• Experience with Kalman filtering, inertial navigation, target tracking or multi-sensor fusion.
• Familiarity with coordinate transformations, attitude representations, and kinematics.
• Experience with hardware-in-the-loop or real-time simulation.
• Experience taking a pointing/tracking system through integration and environmental or field testing.
• CAM/EV integrated product team lead experience.
• Strong leadership skills and experience directing and mentoring engineers on complex programs.
• Expert in effectively documenting, communicating, leading and working with a team on designs, results, reports, and presentations.
• Experience performing systems engineering activities across the development cycle (analysis/decomposition/derivation/allocation of requirements, system modeling & simulation, system design & development, system integration & test)
• Experience developing viable concept solutions, identifying and tracking technical risks, and leading technical teams
• Model based systems engineering experience with tools such as Magic Draw.
• Familiarity or experience with Agile Systems Engineering
• Active Top Secret (TS) or TS/SCI security clearance
• Understand the system architecture, pointing/tracking requirements, and key performance drivers.
• Own significant portions of the pointing and tracking design.
• Develop and validate models and algorithms against test data.
• Improve pointing and tracking performance through analysis and closed-loop tuning.
• Lead integration and troubleshooting of assigned subsystems.
• Establish repeatable test and verification methods for system performance.