Systems Engineer

This is an opportunity to join the fast-paced world of engineering next generation combat vehicles for the US Army. Working as a DCS employee co-located in Warren Michigan, you will work alongside the U.S. Army Ground Vehicle Systems Center customer and be rewarded with a technically challenging and diverse career in the areas of manned & unmanned ground vehicles, robotics, vehicle electronics, and ground vehicle simulation.

Essential Job Functions

Apply engineering skills in multi-disciplinary research projects for ground combat vehicles, where knowledge and experience in embedded systems development and integration, computer vision, machine learning, autonomous navigation, and other related subjects will be leveraged to support optionally manned systems development and testing for DoD S&T communities.

Direct customer contact and relationship management are extremely important; therefore, candidate should be personable, knowledgeable, and an excellent communicator.

Candidate will have demonstrated experience in embedded systems development, including various engineering processes, methodologies, and development lifecycle in the creation of vehicle system/subsystem architectures.

Position may require the candidate to lead programs or sub-project and interact with the clients to comprehend and decompose complicated platform requirements into structured and manageable engineering components across multiple engineering disciplines.

Required Skills

Due to the sensitivity of customer related requirements, U.S. Citizenship is required.

Bachelor of Science degree or higher in related engineering or science discipline and 5 years’ experience.

Must be able to obtain and maintain a DOD Secret clearance.

Experience with vehicle systems and leadership responsibilities in a large project or effort.

Ability to work within a team environment to direct and contribute to a Vehicle Network and Data Architecture and Application Integration concepts.

Experience with Deterministic and Non-Deterministic Data Bus Architectures.

Experience performing Functional Decomposition and Capability Development methods to develop new architectures.

Experience with developing and integrating data networks that cross multiple layers of information security (Secure vs Non-Secure Networks).

Subsystem and System level integration and testing on vehicle electronics systems.

Experience in developing and executing System Level Plans.

Excellent technical, interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills.

Ability to Travel to various customer and contractor facilities and test centers (10% Travel).

Desired Skills

Process development and improvement management (CMMI).

Preference given to candidates with experience in Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) or Digital Engineering (DE) such as SysML, using tools such as MagicDraw/Cameo. (Please note that experience with MATLAB and Simulink does not count toward this desired skillset)

Preference given to candidates with experience with military systems in a large project or effort.

Experience with developing and integrating data networks that cross security domains (Classified vs Unclassified Networks).