Job Summary

Be a charter member of the Systems Engineering team, supporting a product destined to revolutionize personal transit. As this visionary company expands, the need for scalable processes and rigor are essential to success. The successful candidate will lead data-driven architectural decision-making and implement scalable processes across requirements management, risk management, testing, interface management, and configuration control.

The applicant will work across a number of talented teams, ensuring the final product is both designed and built as intended. Experience with fast-paced, agile, start-up product development is a plus. Apply out-of-the-box thinking to help this product realize its full potential!

Responsibilities include:

• Guiding system design and development across all stages of product life cycle.
• Executing well-defined trade studies to inform critical engineering architecture and Product Definition decisions.
• Defining, scaling, and implementing model-based systems engineering processes, including:
• System architecture definition and requirements decomposition
• Requirements and interface management
• Risk assessment and mitigation
• Verification and Validation
• Developing architectural diagrams and products, such as Concept of Operations
• Partnering with the Product team to ensure functional and statutory requirements are understood and applied appropriately to the system.
• Implementing Digital Twin methodologies to transform how skyTran will deploy commercial infrastructure projects

Desired Qualifications

• 15+ years of work experience in increasing levels of responsibility in systems engineering / systems integration roles.
• An agile thinker with the ability to add structure and develop scalable, enterprise class solutions.
• Simultaneously action-oriented and a strategic planner.
• Experience working in a human-rated / safety-critical industry. Has System Safety analysis experience, including Failure Modes & Effects Analysis (FMEA), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), and Functional Hazard Analysis (FHA).
• Strong interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to present technical content to general audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to manage via influence and development of cross business relationships to drive solution of complex business problems.
• Direct experience with Tableau, JIRA, SharePoint, PowerBI, DOORS and other internal tools.
• Familiarity with UML/SysML, Python.
• Knowledge of Dassault 3DExperience a strong plus.
• Experience in high growth / startup environments a strong plus.

Our Ideal Candidate

• Is proactive and self-motivated, tackling problems as soon as they arise
• Values a data-driven approach; someone who can foster rigor and discipline in all that we do, to provide evidence for program success and return on investment
• Has experience building new processes in a rapidly changing environment
• Is willing to work outside of normal working hours to complete tasks and coordinate across geographies
• Has advanced Degrees / Certificates / Certifications in Systems Engineering / Project Management