Senior Systems Engineer
Leonardo DRS
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Fitchburg • Massachusetts • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $99,740 - $154,846 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Drive the day-to-day execution of large system integration projects for ship-based steam electric plants and propulsion systems used in naval and commercial marine applications.
- Contribute to interdisciplinary technical teams to architect, analyze, and specify requirements/interfaces for steam turbine generators and related auxiliary equipment.
- Integrate components into broader thermo-fluid power systems, including but not limited to: Turbines into power plants, Heat exchangers into propulsion machinery.
- Represent DRS with customers and suppliers, as needed.
- Operate across the Systems Engineering "V" to decompose top-level requirements into detailed sub-system / component-level requirements and verify compliance via analysis, test, etc.
- Clearly communicate, orally and in writing, project status and technical information to technical and non-technical individuals.
- Use and manage systems engineering toolsets.
- Ability to design to cost targets, while meeting key performance requirements.
- Contribute directly to project success through individual technical contributions, as required.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science degree from a 4 year accredited college or university in Mechanical, Systems, Marine, or similar engineering
- 5 years of demonstrated experience
- Experience in lumped parameter heat balance and analysis
- Experience in modeling thermal fluid systems in modern, multi-physics computational solvers such as Simulink, AxCycle, Simcenter, etc.
- Experience with system-level thinking and system engineering principles/methods
- Strong sense of ownership and high level of accountability for assigned project
- US citizen
Benefits
- comprehensive health insurance (medical, dental, vision)
- employer matching 401(k) retirement plan
- paid time off including vacation, holidays, and sick leave (including ant state-mandated paid sick leave)
- parental leave benefits
- tuition reimbursement
- professional development support
- life and disability insurance coverage
- wellness programs that focus on physical, emotional, and financial well-being
- flexible work schedules with our 9/80 program
- competitive vacation
- health/emergency leave
- community service hours
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
system integrationsteam turbine generatorsthermo-fluid power systemsheat exchangerslumped parameter heat balancethermal fluid systems modelingmulti-physics computational solverssystems engineering principlesrequirements analysisproject execution
Soft skills
communicationownershipaccountabilityteam collaborationtechnical contribution