System Engineer II

· CAE Vision: Our vision is to be the worldwide partner of choice in defense and security, and civil aviation by revolutionizing our customers’ training and critical operations with digitally immersive solutions to elevate safety, efficiency and readiness.

· CAE Defense & Security Mission: CAE's Defense and Security business unit focuses on helping prepare military customers to develop and maintain the highest levels of mission readiness.

· CAE Values: Empowerment, Innovation, Excellence, Integrity and OneCAE make us who we are and we strive to make a difference in the world while helping each other succeed.

What We Have to Offer:

· Comprehensive and competitive benefits package and flexibility that promotes work-life balance

· A work environment where all employees are valued, respected and safe

· Freedom to succeed by enabling team members to deliver, take initiatives and make decisions

· Recognition, professional development, advancement and having fun!

This position is contingent upon contract award

Summary

The Systems Engineer leads the requirements analysis, tracking and verification for hardware development programs. This position pertains primarily to the requirements definition and validation segment of military simulator design/development and is largely project oriented. Design organization, management, and testing are within the duties to achieve program completion.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

· Analyze and manage customer inputs to define requirements

· Derive System and Component functional requirements

· Define hardware system architecture and design approach

· Provide System/Subsystem tradeoff analysis and design support

· Develop and conduct program test plans to verify requirements

· Interface with customer for requirement tracking and testing witness

· Support engineering demonstrator and/or test units, conduct testing, and analyze test results

· Perform technical writing tasks: requirements, procedures and reports

· Provide program proposal development support

· Conduct cost estimating, planning and scheduling of System Engineering efforts

· Create program documentation to support contractual deliverables.

Qualifications and Education Requirements

· Bachelor Science degree in an Engineering discipline

· Minimum 4 years Engineering experience

· Minimum 2 years experience in hardware Systems Engineering

· Proven ability to develop innovative solutions both individually and part of a team

· Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate complex information to technical and non-technical audiences including peers, management and customers

· Computer Aided Design (Solidworks, CREO, etc.)

· MS-Office

· Due to U.S. Government contract requirements, only U.S. citizens are eligible for this role.

Preferred Skills

· Experience using DOORS and JIRA

· Simulation equipment experience

· Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)

· Ability to develop and implement program plans and processes for the Systems Engineering team

· Understanding and application of Earned Value Management (EVM)

· Programming and/or database administration (MATLAB, C/C , LabVIEW, Python, Jira, SQL, etc.)

· Hands-on testing and debugging complex systems in a lab/test facility environment

Security Responsibilities

Must comply with all company security and data protection / usage policies and procedures. Personally responsible for proper marking and handling of all information and materials, in any form. Shall not divulge any information, or afford access, to other employees not having a need-to-know. Shall not divulge information outside company without management approval. All government and proprietary information will be accessed and stored electronically on company provided resources.

· Incumbent must be eligible for DoD Personal Security Clearance.

Due to U.S. Government contract requirements, only U.S. citizens are eligible for this role.

Work Environment

Work is performed in an environment where irritants such as noise from telephones, temperature, and lighting variations may exist, but there is little chance of injury, accident, or occupational health problems.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

· May be required to sit down for long lengths of time.

· May be required to climb stairs.

· Ability to travel

· Must be able to work overtime and on off-shifts as required.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for their job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

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