AEVEX
Aerospace & DefenseDirect Greenhouse career site

Sr. Systems Engineer

Location
Tampa, FL · On-site
Job type
Full-time
Level
Director
Experience
10+ years
Education
Bachelor's degree
Listed
30 days ago

Skills & highlights for this role

  • TS clearance
  • US citizenship
  • MIL-STD
  • SysML
  • system requirements decomposition
  • MS Project

Also useful

  • Jira
  • Cameo
  • Enterprise Architect

Work Arrangement

Onsite in Tampa, FL

Job Overview

A Senior Systems Engineer leads projects related to creating system architecture, develops and defines system and product requirements, defines methods for verifying compliance to requirements, creates new solutions for the systems, and helps systems work more effectively. This individual may train or mentor Systems Engineers who have less experience and make decisions on projects and department activities. Their overall purpose is to ensure the product or system runs as efficiently as possible and works consistently to meet the needs of the company.

Essential Functions

  • Responsible for providing engineering expertise, oversight, and participation in activities involving weapon systems and associated hardware/software development, integration, test, configuration management, and acquisition and resource management for new capabilities to an existing weapon system.
  • Develops and documents system and subsystem level specified and derived requirements and allocates requirements through the appropriate work breakdown structure (WBS) as codified in a System Requirements Review (SRR) process
  • Supports the requirements identification, verification, validation, and testing process
  • Supports program technical interchange meetings, program management reviews, executive management reviews, test-related meetings, lab and flight test events, integrated product team meetings, software/hardware design reviews, platform integration meetings, etc.
  • Acts as engineering team leader, developing system engineering procedures and controls, managing project efforts, and taking the lead in problem resolution for aircraft research, development, production, and lifecycle acquisition and sustainment activities
  • Interfaces with weapons system contractors, vendors, and Government representatives regarding the technical aspects of engineering activities
  • Independently applies engineering principles to investigate, analyze, plan, oversee, and evaluate weapons system development and sustainment activities
  • Reviews and prepares engineering and technical analyses, reports, change proposals, and other technical documentation
  • Perform other duties as assigned.

Standard Essential Functions

  • Regular and reliable attendance on a full time basis [or in accordance with posted schedule].
  • Responsible for exhibiting professional behavior with both internal and external business associates that reflects positively on the company and is consistent with the company's policies and practices.
  • Embodies AEVEX's cultural values and aligns daily actions with department goals and company culture.

Qualifications and Competencies

  • Skilled in use of DOORs, Cameo or other requirements management systems
  • Project management skills and experience with MS Project
  • Experience using workflow management software such as Jira
  • Comfort with SysML and Block Diagram Development in tools such as Visio, Cameo, and/or Enterprise Architect
  • Skilled working in the setting of an integrated product team (IPT) and/or serving as a lead of one.
  • Ability to decompose complex systems into manageable subsystems and architectures that meet requirements.
  • Comfort eliciting and decomposing requirements into validatable items and assigning measures (KPIs) for them.
  • Demonstrated Organization and Leadership skills
  • Excellent communication (verbal and written).
  • Ability to work collaboratively across functional boundaries to apply problem-solving and analytical skills
  • Knowledge of data privacy.

Education / Certifications

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or related field
  • Master's degree in Systems Engineering desired
  • See years of experience for alternatives to education

Experience

  • Minimum ten (10) years' experience in functional area with a bachelor's degree
  • Five (5) years' experience in functional area with a master's degree
  • At least five (5) years of system engineering experience on DoD programs/projects applying various MIL-STD, MIL-HDBK, and DoD certification processes

Physical Requirements

  • Constantly required to sit, and to reach to use computers and other office equipment
  • For the purpose of this summary, occasionally is used to represent up to 1/3 of the time given to the work day, frequently represents 1/3 to 2/3 of the time and constantly represents 2/3 or more of the time.

Security Clearance

  • Ability to obtain/maintain a Top Secret DoD clearance, U.S. Citizenship required.

About AEVEX

AEVEX, headquartered in Solana Beach, California, supports the U.S. national security mission and partner nation needs around the world by providing full-spectrum aviation, remote sensing, and analysis solutions.

The company's capabilities include custom design and engineering; rapid prototyping; sensor integration and sustainment; aircraft modification and certification; flight test instrumentation and support; mission operations service; advanced intelligence data processing, exploitation, and dissemination solutions; and tailored hardware and software mission-system tools.

AEVEX uses agile and customized approaches to rapidly define, develop, and deliver specialized solutions for airborne special mission needs for the U.S. Government, partner nations, and commercial businesses. AEVEX has major offices in California, Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, and Virginia.

AEVEX provides a full suite of comprehensive benefits, including a 401(k)-retirement plan, comprehensive Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability and Life insurance group coverage with a portion of the premiums paid by the company, professional development funds, and an Employee Assistance Plan (EAP) with counseling, legal help, child and elder care support, among other benefits for qualified employees.

Recruitment Communication Notice: All official correspondence regarding your application, application status, interviews, or the AEVEX hiring process will come directly from an AEVEX representative using an @aevex.com email address or through Greenhouse, our applicant tracking system. Please use caution with communications claiming to represent AEVEX from other email domains, and always verify the sender before responding or providing personal information.

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From AEVEX's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 10, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.

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