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About General Dynamics
General Dynamics is a global aerospace and defense company offering a broad portfolio of products and services in business aviation, ship construction, land combat vehicles, and information technology. It serves customers in the U.S. government, allied governments, and a diverse array of commercial markets.
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The Systems Engineer - FCSWG joins the engineering team to support the definition, development, integration, verification, and sustainment of mission-critical Strategic Weapons Control systems. Working in a disciplined, security-conscious environment, the engineer applies foundational systems-engineering principles across the full system lifecycle. Key responsibilities include decomposing customer requirements into functional and performance specifications, maintaining requirements traceability, and supporting system architectures and interface-control documentation. The role involves participating in technical reviews, executing verification and validation plans, and supporting hardware and software integration. Candidates should possess skills in requirements-management, model-based systems-engineering, and configuration-management using tools such as DOORS, Jira, Cameo/MagicDraw, MATLAB, Python, and Git. This position solves complex technical problems within high-reliability, safety-critical, and mission-critical systems, requiring collaboration across multidisciplinary engineering and program-management teams.
What does a Systems Engineer earn in Massachusetts?
Median $119100 from 54 postings across 3 companies.
Decompose customer and mission requirements into lower-level functional, performance, interface, and verification requirements.
Maintain requirements traceability and technical artifacts using approved requirements-management tools and processes.
Support the development of system architectures, functional analyses, and interface-control documentation.
Participate in technical reviews including requirements, design, test readiness, and peer reviews.
Develop and execute verification and validation plans, procedures, test cases, and reports.
Support hardware and software integration involving test equipment and external system interfaces.
Analyze test data to document discrepancies and support root-cause investigations and regression testing.
Contribute to configuration-management activities including engineering change proposals and impact assessments.
What we're looking for
U.S. citizenship is required.
Ability to obtain and maintain a Department of Defense Secret security clearance.
Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, a related Science, Engineering, or Mathematics field, plus 2 years of relevant experience.
Master's degree in a related field, plus 6 months of relevant experience.
Basic understanding of the systems-engineering lifecycle, including requirements, architecture, integration, verification, validation, and sustainment.
Strong written and verbal communication skills to convey technical information to diverse audiences.
Proficiency with standard productivity tools including Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
Export-control requirements, and quality standards.
Systems Engineering
MBSE
Requirements Management
DOORS
Cameo
MagicDraw
Linux
Networking
Cyber Hardening
System Design
Verification
Test Execution
Troubleshooting
Technical Documentation
Systems Engineering
MBSE
DOORS
Cameo
MagicDraw
Linux
Requirements Management
System Design
Integration
Verification
Troubleshooting
Networking
Cyber Hardening
Test Execution
Systems Engineering
Robotics
UAV
Control Theory
Software Development
Electronics Troubleshooting
Aerodynamics
Avionics
Flight Systems
Prototyping
Data Analysis
VMWare
Microsoft Hyper-V
Active Directory
Windows Server
PowerShell
Service Now
MECM
ITIL v3
Systems Engineering
Systems Design
Systems Development
Server Virtualization
Systems Automation
Technical Documentation
Systems Engineering
Physics
Electrical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Control Systems
Product Lifecycle Management
Root Cause Analysis
Risk Management
Reliability Engineering
High-Voltage Systems
Requirements Management
Issue Tracking