Senior Surety Systems Engineer

Leidos Defense Systems seeks a Senior Surety Systems Engineer to apply systems engineering and model-based engineering methods to complex defense weapon systems. The role includes translating DoD safety manuals into design requirements, supporting system integration and verification, assessing physical security design, and coordinating with DoD and DOE stakeholders on nuclear weapon safety.

Responsibilities

• Translate Department of Defense safety manuals into requirements and allocate them to design teams.
• Provide systems engineering support for the design, integration, and testing of a next-generation weapon system.
• Support technical planning, verification, validation, cost, risk, and supportability analyses for integrated systems.
• Evaluate physical security designs against Department of Defense safety manuals.
• Coordinate with Department of Defense and Department of Energy stakeholders on safe nuclear weapon system design and operation.
• Apply model-based engineering tools to evaluate and analyze weapon system designs.

Required Skills

• Systems engineering
• Requirements decomposition and allocation
• Systems architecture
• System integration
• Verification and validation
• Requirements and configuration management
• DOORSModel-based systems engineering
• Weapon system engineering
• Safety and physical security analysis