Systems Engineering Manager

Long Wave Inc. is seeking a Systems Engineering Manager to provide technical leadership in Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), requirements management, and architecture development for Department of Defense (DoD) programs. This role is designed for an engineering manager with experience defining and managing system architectures, overseeing requirements baselines, and ensure compliance with program and DoD standards, while mentoring junior engineers and engaging directly with customers and stakeholders.

This position requires strong leadership, organizational, and technical skills to coordinate engineering teams, support customer meetings, drive engineering processes, and ensure successful delivery of integrated system solutions.

Essential Responsibilities:

1. Lead Systems Engineering activities across the full program lifecycle, including requirements analysis and architecture development.

2. Manage and coordinate multidisciplinary engineering teams including Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Specialty Engineering, Cybersecurity, Training/ISD, and Technical Publication disciplines.

3. Provide technical and functional leadership for MBSE implementation, requirements management, architecture development, and system integration activities.

4. Oversee development and maintenance of system requirements baselines, ensuring end-to-end traceability between customer requirements, derived requirements, architecture artifacts, and verification methods.

5. Support technical planning and execution for major program reviews including SRR, SFR, PDR, CDR, TRR, FCA, PCA, and customer milestone events.

6. Manage technical risks, opportunities, assumptions, and dependencies associated with system integration, architecture maturity, source data availability, and verification activities.

7. Coordinate engineering staffing, task assignments, workload balancing, and employee development activities within the SEIT organization.

8. Mentor and develop junior and mid-level engineers in systems engineering processes, MBSE methodologies, integration and test practices, and technical leadership skills.

9. Ensure engineering deliverables comply with program requirements, customer expectations, DoD standards, cybersecurity requirements, and organizational engineering processes.

10. Support proposal development, Basis of Estimate (BOE) generation, technical volume creation, staffing planning, and program startup activities as required.

11. Collaborate with Program Management to support Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) development, technical performance tracking, risk mitigation planning, and earned value management activities.

12. Serve as a primary technical interface with customers, suppliers, subcontractors, and internal leadership for SEIT-related activities.

13. Support configuration management, change management, and technical baseline control processes across the program lifecycle.

14. Perform other duties as assigned.

Work Conditions:

Employee will be working within an office environment. Employee may be expected to travel on occasion to locations where specific PPE or attire is necessary.

Do you have experience in Systems integration?, Do you have a Master’s degree?, * Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical field.

• 8+ years of professional experience in systems engineering, integration, and test activities supporting complex technical or DoD programs.
• 3+ years of technical leadership, team leadership, or engineering management experience.
• Experience managing engineering scope, budget, staffing, and schedule performance within an Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) environment.
• Strong experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), requirements management, and system architecture development.
• Experience leading system integration, verification, validation, and test activities for hardware and software-intensive systems.
• Experience supporting DoD acquisition lifecycle reviews and engineering processes.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary engineering teams across technical disciplines.
• Strong written, verbal, organizational, and leadership skills.
• Security Clearance: Active DoD Secret clearance or higher is preferred.
• US Citizenship and Eligibility for a DoD Clearance is required.

Preferred Requirements:

• Experience serving as a Control Account Manager (CAM) or supporting Control Account Management activities on Earned Value Management (EVM) programs.
• Familiarity with EVMS tools and processes used within DoD programs.
• Proficiency with Cameo Systems Modeler (or equivalent MBSE tool).
• Experience leading teams in Agile development environments.
• Prior experience interfacing directly with DoD customers and presenting technical solutions at program reviews.

Long Wave Inc. is a Small Business defense contractor headquartered in Oklahoma City, OK. We are an industry leader in the installation and maintenance of Very Low Frequency/Low Frequency/High Frequency (VLF/LF/HF) communication systems, software development, software, and hardware installation, Nuclear Command and Control Communication (NC3), Contract Support Services (CSS), and systems engineering. We have grown into an agile company based on experience, trust, and integrity. Long Wave is the best Strategic Communications Small Business in America. As a leader in services and solutions, software, and engineering products, we make certain that our abilities are as diverse and unique as our customers.

As a government contractor, we specialize in:

• Engineering
• Tower and Antenna Maintenance and Installation
• Software Development
• Software and Hardware Installation
• Operations and Maintenance of Government Facilities
• Information Technology and Cybersecurity Services
• Simulation and Training
• Program Management Services for Various Agencies and Clients

Staffed with retired military, senior engineers, and support personnel from industry, we have helped to design and implement some of the United States Military’s most critical and innovative communications technologies. Our subject matter experts have hundreds of years of combined experience operating, maintaining, and modernizing communications suites around the world and our software developers have decades of experience analyzing, architecting, developing, testing, and deploying software solutions for the United States Navy and commercial customers.

Our military men and women around the world count on Long Wave to provide services for many of today’s modern military communication programs. Some of our accomplishments include:

• The Clarinet Merlin Receiving System (CMRS), a shore-based communications system that continuously monitors emergency transmissions from buoys launched from United States Navy submarines;
• A Command and Control (C2) Dashboard, which provides databases for operational and maintenance support for the United States Navy’s Take Charge and Move Out (TACAMO) leadership;
• Long Wave developed Trainers and Stimulators that provide mission rehearsal capability, which can completely simulate a communication suite with integrated voice and data communications.

Long Wave is proud to have been supporting the United States Military since 1995.