ICON
Senior Systems Engineer I
Austin, Texas, United States · Senior · Contract
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 42 days ago
NegotiationSystems EngineeringAerospace EngineeringLeadershipCommunicationPublic Speaking
About the role
- We need a proactive self-starter who is humble, meticulous, hardworking, collaborative and loves to solve problems.
- This role will report to the Technical Director, Off-Planet Systems at our Austin, TX campus.
- ICON is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an innovative, inclusive, diverse and discrimination-free work environment.
Responsibilities
- Use NASA and NASA-like systems engineering approaches, including model based system engineering (MBSE) to manage requirements, milestones, and associated programmatic and system needs.
- Collaborate with cross-functional, multidisciplinary teams to lead, drive, and execute design, development, and test of a spaceflight hardware program.
- Create documentation and organize technical information to serve as deliverables in government contracts, white-papers, and presentations.
- Own the execution of multiple programs and their interrelated projects in an organized, detailed manner. Projects require cross-functional coordination, communication, influence, and negotiation, including direct customer interface.
- Ability to lead a highly skilled multi-disciplinary team in the development of highly complex and sophisticated electro-mechanical robotic systems.
Requirements
- 8+ years of engineering product development experience with at least 3+ years experience in R&D environments developing new and cutting edge products.
- 5+ years of experience in systems engineering for space applications with a proven track record of successfully managing hardware system development projects to completion.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, ability to filter and distill the relevant information to the right audience.
- Comfortable with change and ambiguity with the ability to quickly propose solutions given limited guidance.
- Strong understanding of System Engineering principles in regards to requirements capture, risk management, system block diagrams, and work breakdown structures.
- Experience in R&D engineering, test/validation, and manufacturing.
- Knowledge of or direct experience with MBSE
- Ability to work with a strong work ethic and close attention to detail in a fast-paced dynamic team environment with rapidly changing roles and responsibilities.
- Experience with the design and development of robotic systems.
Nice to have
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or STEM-related field.
- Mechanical or Aerospace engineering background preferred.
Skills
- Knowledge of Model-Based Systems Engineering methods.
- Experience in Aerospace, preferably with spaceflight hardware development.
- Experience in Additive manufacturing technologies.
- Experience in managing large-scale and dynamic engineering projects.
- M.S. in Systems Engineering or certificates of education in Systems Engineering practices.
- Ability to prioritize and stay cool in a dynamic start-up environment.
- A hunger for learning and personal growth.
This listing is sourced directly from ICON's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.