Systems Engineer, Hardware Obsolescence Management

What you'll do

• Monitor hardware lifecycle status to identify components at risk of obsolescence.
• Maintain an obsolescence risk register covering affected parts, configurations, inventory, and demand.
• Analyze how proposed substitutions or redesigns affect system requirements, interfaces, and software dependencies.
• Develop and document mitigation options like qualified alternate parts, last-time buys, and technology refreshes.
• Lead trade studies evaluating technical risk, cost, schedule, availability, and verification effort.
• Define requirements and verification approaches for replacement hardware.
• Support configuration management and update technical documentation and parts lists.
• Communicate risks, recommendations, and implementation status to program stakeholders.

What we're looking for

• U.S. citizenship is required.
• Must be able to obtain a Department of Defense Secret security clearance.
• Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering or a related Science, Engineering, or Mathematics field, plus a minimum of 2 years of relevant experience.
• Master's degree, plus 6 months of relevant experience.
• Experience in systems engineering, hardware engineering, or product sustainment.
• Ability to analyze requirements, interfaces, and the system-level effects of hardware changes.
• Experience evaluating technical alternatives and documenting engineering decisions.
• Familiarity with configuration management, verification planning, and risk management.
• Experience with hardware obsolescence or diminishing manufacturing sources and material shortages (DMSMS) (preferred).
• Familiarity with electronic component lifecycles, bills of materials, supplier data, and product lifecycle management tools (preferred).
• Experience supporting complex, safety-critical, or long-life systems (preferred).
• Experience planning qualification activities for component substitutions or hardware redesigns (preferred).