D430 Strategic Weapons Systems Engineering - Engineer I/II - General Dynamics Electric Boat

D430 Strategic Weapons Systems Engineering

Strategic Weapons Systems (SWS) Engineering, Department 430, develops in-house embedded systems and integrates government furnished equipment to support the Strategic Weapons Systems of the Columbia Class and other submarine classes.

Department 430 offers a flexible work arrangement that allows some work to be performed remotely and at home.  This varies from position to position based on a few variables.  Please ask for more details on how it applies to this opening during discussions with the department.

Entry level opportunities exist within the following department teams:

STRATEGIC WEAPONS SYSTEMS ENGINEERING

This diverse group, comprised of degreed engineers of varied backgrounds and years of Navy experience, performs system and component engineering for the Strategic Weapons Systems (SWS) and Strategic Weapons Support Systems (SWSS) for COLUMBIA/Dreadnought submarine classes.  The team moves products from the concept phase, through requirement definition, design, build, test, integration and the full life cycle. 

This highly effective team is responsible for:

• Ensuring government furnished information (GFI) and Coordinated requirements are successfully integrated into the submarine design
• Integrating government furnished equipment (GFE) and systems into the boat
• Developing systems and components to support the strategic weapon
• Designing and qualifying contractor furnished equipment to meet both government furnished requirements and ship specifications

System Engineering responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Develop concept of operations for new equipment and systems
• Derive system level requirements and capture them in DOORS
• Allocate system requirements to components and ensure proper traceability
• Review test documentation to ensure all system level requirements have been verified
• Collaborate with design team to develop cabling diagrams, wiring tables, component disclosures and cable routing products representative of our systems and component designs
• Manager vendors to requirements, schedules and budgets
• Support arrangement reviews to confirm proper integration of coordination and GFI requirements
• Develop algorithm requirements
• Review life cycle documentation to ensure procedures accurately reflect system functionality
• Review Coordination and GFI to ensure common system interfaces are defined
• Review kit documentation and certify material in accordance with kit schedules
• Manage product schedules and budgets
• Qualify components in accordance with ship specifications
• Communicate with internal and external stakeholders and customers
• Support test facilities and troubleshoot as necessary

STRATEGIC WEAPONS SYSTEMS ENGINEERING ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS

SWS Engineering Electronic Systems team is responsible for the following:

• Design, development, qualification, integration, and in fleet support of the electrical control system elements (components) required to control the environment of the ballistic missile tubes on the COLUMBIA, DREADNOUGHT, and OHIO Class submarines.

SWS Engineering Electronic Systems are responsible for the following components:

• Sensors
• Human machine interfaces
• Embedded systems (PLC architecture)
• Controllers
• Application software

SWS Engineering Electronic Systems responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Developing and maintaining requirements for components
• Review test procedures to verify component level requirements
• Developing software for components
• Witness and troubleshoot environmental testing
• Troubleshooting EB and vendor built components
• Project Management
• Component development
• Obsolescence management
• Vendor management
• Support components at off site facilities
• Integration of components into the system

STRATEGIC WEAPONS SYSTEMS ENGINEERING SIMULATION & TEST

The Simulation and Test group has three primary focuses

• Development of custom simulators, which model the behavior of ship systems
• Development of custom test equipment, used in construction grooming
• Requirements verification of SWS components for both US and UK Submarine components

Simulation and Test responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Developing and maintaining requirements for simulators
• Developing and conducting test procedures to verify system and component level requirements
• Developing software for custom simulators
• Participate in environmental testing
• Troubleshooting bugs determined
• Development of custom simulators, which model the behavior of ship systems
• Development of custom test equipment, used in construction grooming
• Requirements verification of SWS components for both US and UK Submarine components

Required:

• A Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering. Electrical Engineering is preferred, however other technical engineering degrees will be considered
• Internal candidates must be from organizations outside of Operations (Casciano/Gabriel)

Preferred:

• Formal test or troubleshooting experience
• DOORS experience

Skills:

• Strong communication skills, written and verbal
• Highly organized and attention to detail