Company Overview:
Vertex Solutions is rethinking what it means to train people by providing high fidelity, immersive training devices that enable people to quickly conceptualize ideas. Our training devices are where people need them the most at work or at home to enable rapid proficiency development with complex tasks. Our company’s 25 years of experience in curriculum and courseware development enables us to create smart, holistic solutions across a spectrum of training techniques and technologies.
Vertex Solutions is an industry leader in extended reality (XR) training devices and training curriculum development. We’ve delivered over 500 XR training devices and tens of thousands of hours of courseware, that are being used by instructors and students every day. We are not just talking about XR technologies, we are delivering XR technologies to change training outcomes today.
Vertex Solutions has an exciting opportunity for a Systems Engineering Technical Lead for current and emerging programs at our company. Come join Vertex Solutions, where you will be part of an ambitious team of changemakers who have a restless curiosity and a drive for innovation.
We offer a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. With a leadership position in XR training, we are poised to expand our capabilities and establish an even stronger presence in the defense and commercial sectors.
Job Summary:
Lead the systems engineering efforts for Vertex Solutions curriculum based training ecosystem ensuring alignment with overall program goals and objectives.
Essential Functions:
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
· Lead the systems engineering efforts for Vertex Solutions curriculum based training ecosystem ensuring alignment with overall program goals and objectives.
· Lead the cross-functional team to define and maintain the system requirements, interfaces, behaviors, and verification & validation activities.
· Apply interdisciplinary, collaborative approaches to plan, design, develop and verify complex systems solutions.
· Evaluate customer and operational needs to define and coordinate system performance requirements, integrate technical parameters and assure compatibility of all physical, functional and program interfaces.
· Perform analyses for affordability, safety, reliability, maintainability, testability, human systems integration, survivability, vulnerability, susceptibility, system security, regulatory, certification, product assurance and other specialties quality factors into a preferred configuration to ensure mission success.
· Develop, manage, and validate system requirements, including technical specifications and supplier requirements, to ensure compliance with program standards.
· Conduct design reviews and technical assessments, providing guidance and recommendations to ensure system performance and reliability.
· Support, develop, maintain and identify improvements for the planning, organization, implementation and monitoring of requirements management processes, tools, risk, issues, opportunity management and technology readiness assessment processes.
Supervisory Responsibility
This position has no supervisory responsibility.
Work Environment This job operates in a home office environment.
Physical Demands The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and work on a computer for long periods of time. The employee must be able to lift and carry up to 10 pounds as needed.
Position Type/Expected Hours of Work Some flexibility in hours is allowed, but the employee must be available during the “core” work hours of 1000 - 1600 (Central Time). Occasional evening and weekend work may be required as job duties demand.
Travel
Travel may be required up to 10% of the time; Domestically and/or Internationally depending on business needs.
Required Education, Experience, and Skills
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering; or a related field of study and 10+ years of work-related experience.
- Prior Systems Engineering experience to include but not limited to system design, functional decomposition, requirements development, analysis, verification, and validation.
- Proven experience in the development/improvement of new and existing products, solutions, and processes.
- Experience working in government programs with controlled engineering baselines.
- This position requires excellent communication skills and the ability to communicate complex technical information at the appropriate level for customers, executives, managers, and technical subject matter experts.
- U.S. citizenship and Secret clearance eligibility.
- 10+ years of related experience
Additional Eligibility Qualifications
None is required for this position.
Work Authorization/Security Clearance
In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire. Background checks- criminal, civil, employment, and education required. Drug screening in compliance with drug-free workplace standards. Ability to obtain a federal government clearance when required for projects.
Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Vertex Solutions, LLC is an “Equal Opportunity Employer,” and prohibits, in all employment-related practices and decisions, discrimination, harassment, or prejudicial treatment against any person based on race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, gender, pregnancy,
childbirth, pregnancy-related conditions, age, disability, veteran status, or otherwise as provided by federal, state, or local law.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $150,000.00 - $175,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Employee discount
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Professional development assistance
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision insurance
Experience:
- Government Contracting: 1 year (Required)
- Systems Engineering: 5 years (Required)
Work Location: Remote
