Fuse is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to lead mission definition, architecture clarity, and integration risk reduction across complicated tactical communication systems.
Requirements
- Establish and maintain Design Reference Missions (DRMs) that anchor mission intent and guide hypothesis formation
- Translate customer intent into system-level behaviors
- Identify mission-level risks and architectural uncertainties
- Lead system architecture definition across disciplines
- Define critical interfaces and integration strategies
- Conduct and lead trade studies to support architecture decisions
- Frame Epics as architectural hypotheses, explicitly stating assumptions, mission impact, and risk posture
- Ensure risks and opportunities are surfaced and managed at the architecture level rather than at execution detail
- Design and drive modeling and simulation strategies
- Lead early integration experiments to reduce uncertainty
- Ensure traceability from mission intent through validation
- Own system-level risk posture and drive cross-discipline alignment to reduce integration uncertainty early in the lifecycle
- Drive integration learning cycles that validate or invalidate architectural assumptions
- Ensure Stories and integration events produce evidence tied directly to mission intent
- Establish objective delivery readiness criteria based on integration risk retirement rather than schedule milestones alone
- Ensure integration and verification activities are aligned with mission threads
- Ensure delivery readiness is based on validated system behavior under stress conditions, not artifact completion
- Communicate confidence levels in system performance based on evidence generated through spiral iterations
- Establish criteria for delivery readiness based on risk posture
- Drive resolution of cross-discipline issues impacting system behavior
- Ensure traceability from mission intent through formal validation
- Communicate system risk posture to program and technical leadership
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, and Vision
- 11 paid Federal Holidays
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- 401k with employer matching
- Annual bonuses
- Cell phone reimbursement: $100/month