Principal Systems Engineer
Sterling Heights, MI 48312 US
Job Description
- Lead or support systems engineering tasks such as requirements development and management, architecture development, interface development, formal decisions and trade studies, and system design development, specialty engineering integration, and verification and validation.
- Develop and manage subsystem and component level performance specifications by managing requirements in a requirements repository.
- Create and maintain requirements traceability in the requirements repository.
- Develop and maintain requirements verification and compliance, and supporting artifacts.
- Support requirements decomposition analysis to help drive concept architectures and system characteristics.
- Lead development and maintenance of interface requirements and interface design information for assigned sub-system, system and components.
- Document concept design decisions and support generating System/Subsystem Design Descriptions (SSDDs) and capability assessments.
- Coordinate and facilitate formal decisions and trade studies to drive design and document results.
- Provide Systems Engineering input to support vehicle level Systems Engineering activities and program milestone reviews.
- Support the execution and monitoring of cost, schedule, risk, and Contract Data Requirement List (CDRL) delivery.
- Coordinate Systems Engineering (SE) activities within assigned team IPTs and Specialty Engineering POCs to help influence the design.
- Familiarity with Department of Defense Architecture (DoDAF).
- Experience with DOORS requirements management tool.
- Bachelors degree in engineering or a closely related field and 4+ years of relevant experience are required.
- Systems engineering experience performing requirements analysis, derivation, and allocation, and translating requirements to viable concepts and design solutions within applicable constraints.
- Experience developing architecture concepts and evaluating alternatives.
- Ability to balance system design considering system usage concept of operations (CONOPS), performance, constraints, and logistics concerns.
- Ability to generate System/Subsystem Design Descriptions (SSDDs) and capability assessments per the program statement of work (SOW).
- Experience with requirement derivation, allocation and management.
- Bachelors degree in engineering or closely related field and 4+ years relevant experience is required.
- Health Insurance
- 401k
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class.
Meet Your Recruiter

Tom Lee
Vice President – Recruiting and IT Operations
Mr. Lee has over 25 years of experience in the service and retail industries with extensive backgrounds in management, sales, recruiting and training. He is currently a senior member of our recruiting staff serving multiple industries, with a specific focus on personnel with engineering backgrounds. He joined HEPCO in 1992.
As a recruiter he enjoys interacting with people from all walks of life and that every day is different. Outside of the office, Tom is an avid golfer and is skilled at repairing his golf clubs.