Lead System Engineer / Firehawk Aerospace

Firehawk Aerospace is a propulsion-focused aerospace and defense company based in the Dallas, TX area. Firehawk is looking for a dedicated and experienced Lead Systems Engineer to support our mission of creating cutting-edge defense solutions. The Lead Systems Engineer will play a crucial role in ensuring that Firehawk Aerospace maintains the highest standards of design, analysis, and compliance rigor throughout its operations.

Responsibilities

• Translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications. Ensure the logical and systematic conversion of customer or product requirements into total systems solutions under technical, schedule, and cost constraints.
• Lead a program risk and opportunities program in conjunction with the chief engineer and program manager.
• Manage requirements verification and compliance efforts.
• Create system-level qualification plans.
• Contribute to the completion of specific programs, projects, and proposals.
• Interact frequently with technical staff and management throughout multiple departments and with outside customer contacts. Communicate effectively with teams on a daily basis about assignments and results.
• In addition, must be a team player, able to work comfortably and effectively with team members, program stakeholders, and senior personnel using strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communications skills.
• Travel is required for customer interfacing, technical interchange meetings, on-site technical support, testing events, and other special events.
• Exhibit and practice professional and courteous behavior while interacting with both internal and external customers.
• Interact within a cooperative environment through beneficial behavior, commitment to common goals, contribution to problem solving, communication of ideas and suggestions, and encouragement to other employees and departments.
• Accountable for the control and distribution of documents and/or equipment subject to export control restrictions.
• Accountable for the accuracy and completeness of assigned tasks.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Systems, Mechanical, or Aerospace Engineering (or another applicable technical field).
• A minimum of 5 years of relevant Systems experience in a manufacturing, aerospace, or defense industry setting.
• Experience applying systems engineering processes (design reviews, requirements verification and validation, risk management).
• Knowledge of Department of Defense and INCOSE standards.
• Compliance and risk matrix generation.
• Acceptance test procedure generation.
• System architecture and design.
• Technical requirement assessment.
• Willingness to mentor less experienced engineers.
• Written and oral communication skills including presentation skills.
• Organization, coordination and multitasking skills.
• Self-motivation.
• Can work independently with minimal oversight.

Preferred Qualifications

• Contingency planning.
• Long-term vision and business strategy.
• Configuration management.