Senior Systems Engineers

Systems Engineer -- Aegis BMD

• New Jersey/Mount Laurel (near Philadelphia (easy commute))
• Full-time On-site Active or Recent Secret Clearance Required Up to $150K

You Know What Aegis Is. Good. Lets Skip the Intro.

If youve spent years doing actual systems engineering -- requirements V&V integration test -- and youre starting to wonder whether theres a team out there that would actually know your name and invest authentically in knowing and valuing your work and you as a person and team member keep reading.

This one is a little different.

What This Actually Is

Were Nerd Up. Weve been making unusually good matches between smart engineers and teams that deserve them for over 25 years.

Were hiring a handful of senior systems engineers to join a long-tenured team embedded at a major defense primes facility in Moorestown NJ supporting Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense programs. The kind of work that matters. The kind of program that doesnt end.

These are not management roles. Not lead roles. Not roles where you spend your week in strategy offsites and your Friday writing status reports about status reports.

These are roles for engineers who still like engineering.

The Company Behind the Role

Our client is a specialized engineering firm that has been partnered with this customer since 2007 and specifically supporting the Aegis Combat System since 2015.

In 18 years in tumultuous economies theyve also not had a layoff due to lost work across all their work locations on the East Coast.Thats not a line. Thats a data point.

Their Mount Lauren team has some of the lowest turnover in the company -- not because people cant leave but because most of them dont want to. Theres something to be said for a place that has earned that.

What Youll Do

Depending on your team assignment your day-to-day will include some combination of:

• Requirements development decomposition tracking and validation
• Verification and validation (V&V)
• Systems integration and test support
• ET&T activities
• Data analysis and problem investigation
• Working alongside senior technical leads on mission-critical problems

This is not a training environment. If youre the kind of engineer who reads the system figures out what needs doing and does it youll feel right at home.

What Were Looking For

Must-haves:

• 5 to 10 years of systems engineering experience
• DOORS (Jazz DOORS Next Gen strongly preferred)
• Requirements development and decomposition experience
• Verification and validation experience
• Systems integration and test background
• Ability to read and write C (Python scripting increasingly valuable here too)
• Active DoD Secret clearance
• BS in Systems Engineering Computer Engineering Computer Science or related field

Strong differentiators:

• Aegis BMD naval combat systems or missile defense experience
• MATLAB (nice to have not required)
• Cameo / MBSE exposure
• Experience with automated test containers or Kubernetes

What This Is Not

Not a management role. Not a team lead role. Not a place where your technical instincts go to gather dust.

If your most recent title is Director Engineering Manager or Program Lead and thats genuinely where your heart is this probably isnt your next move.

If you held those titles and honestly miss requirements integration and test over PowerPoint and headcount Lets talk.

The Practical Stuff

• Salary: Up to $150K depending on experience
• Sign-on bonus available for the right candidate
• Medical dental vision 401(k) Safe Harbor PTO STD/LTD life insurance tuition assistance
• Schedule options: Flex 4/10 Flex 9/80 with alternating Fridays off or straight 5/8
• On-site in Moorestown NJ

Sound Like You -- Or Someone You Know

Apply directly or reach out. If you know someone who is technically sharp genuinely good at this work and ready for a team that will actually notice please send them this link. We always appreciate referrals to good humans -- and any excuse to grow our Nerd Network.

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Julie Nerd-in-Chief
Nerd Up Staffing since January 2000

Required Experience:

Senior IC