Progeny Systems Corporation


Progeny Systems Corporation is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status.

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Location: US-VA-Manassas
Category: Engineering

Job Description

Progeny has an opening for a Senior System Engineer in Manassas, Virginia or Middletown RI locations. The selected candidate will join a highly talented team responsible for developing the state of the art Payload Control System (PCS) for both the U.S. and Australian Submarine Navies. The team is responsible for the system engineering and functional design of the system under development, addressing topics such as payload integration, weapon launch interlocks, message exchanges, user interfaces, and cybersecurity. As a member of the system engineering team, the candidate will focus on ensuring the system design and implementation complies with all applicable safety standards.

While this position will mostly have regular business hours, some compensated overtime hours and travel will be required.

When completing your application- please indicate which location is preferred.

Duties and Responsibilities

From a system safety perspective:

• Coordinate with other contractor and Navy activities for any potential requirements changes that could impact the PCS design, or are being considered as a future capability
• Author new system engineering documentation
• Participate in various technical and program meetings on a weekly basis
• Support the Development, Test, Safety and Logistics teams for any questions of issues associated with requirements development
• Communicate project/program issues to management, as necessary
• Review various weapon/payload interface design specifications
• Support various weapon/payload coordination and demo events
• Attend various technical working groups as required for interfaces, subsystems and component reviews associated with the PCS program
• Prepare and present review packages for the SSSTRP and WSERB panels

Skills/Requirements

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Possess excellent written and verbal communication skills

Experience with weapon systems and system safety concepts is required

US Navy submarine experience is a plus

Education/Experience

B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, System Engineering or a minimum of 10 years engineering experience, or recent directly relevant experience with Submarine Combat Control Weapon System experience and MIL-STD-882E or JSSEH is required.

This position requires the applicant to obtain and maintain a DoD Clearance.

Physical and Mental Requirements for all positions:
Prolonged stationary periods at a desk
General ability to operate computer and other productivity machinery such as calculator, copy machine, printer, etc.
Ability to lift and transport up to 15 pounds at times
Effectively communicate with others
Ability to stay focused and provide attention to detail.
Ability to think analytically and apply problem solving skills to scenarios throughout the course of the workday

ACCOMMODATION REQUEST

If you need special assistance or an accommodation while seeking employment, please contact our recruiting department at hr@progeny.net or call 703.368.6107. We will make a determination on your request for reasonable accommodation on a case-by-case basis.



Benefits:

To learn more about the Benefits offered by Progeny Systems, including a minimum $1,000 sign-on bonus for all new hires, please visit our website at http://www.progeny.net/careers.

About Progeny Systems

Progeny Systems is a high-tech business that provides premium systems, services, and products for the Department of Defense, government agencies and commercial clients. We are a technology leader in numerous areas including: technology insertion; acoustic sensors; signal processing; combat systems; torpedoes; cyber security; biometrics; knowledge management; undersea vehicles; open architecture; electromagnetic maneuver warfare; electronics packaging; and image/video processing/analysis.

Progeny System's ability to leverage flexibility, rapid turnaround, customer responsiveness, and encourage an environment for experimental research has been critical to our success in developing, producing and supporting numerous mission critical national defense systems.

Progeny has provided highly complex products/programs to the United States Government in collaboration with the following agencies, among others:

- United States Navy

- United States Air Force

- United States Army

- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

- National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA)

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