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# Senior Principal Systems Engineer - Weapons and Energetics

- **Company:** General Dynamics Mission Systems, Inc.
- **Location:** Fort Wayne, IN, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $183,730.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Systems Engineering, Configuration Management, MATLAB, Software Requirements Analysis, Toolchain, Digital Twin, Modeling and Simulation, Ansys
- **Published:** August 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.techcareers.com/job.asp?id=3353374002&tx=HT7266TYT&pt=1&aff=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54&utm_source=Job%20Feed&utm_medium=textkernel&utm_campaign=DE&utm_term=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54

## About the Role

Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, or a related Science, Engineering or Mathematics field, plus a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience; or Master's degree, plus a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience., Department of Defense Secret security clearance is required at time of hire. Applicants selected will be subject to a U.S. Government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Due to the nature of work performed within our facilities, U.S. citizenship is required., * Demonstrated technical ownership of warhead, energetic payload, munitions, or comparable high-consequence hardware through design, qualification, and production readiness.

 * Experience defining payload architecture and decomposing system requirements into interfaces, verification evidence, technical trade studies, and risk-reduction plans.
 * Ability to balance mission effects, safety, insensitive-munitions objectives, integration, manufacturability, cost, and schedule in defensible engineering decisions.
 * Experience managing interfaces among energetic payloads, initiation or fuzing systems, mechanical structures, and weapon or delivery platforms.
 * Experience planning and leading verification, qualification, environmental, and live-fire test activities; interpreting results and driving corrective action.
 * Experience applying system-safety, hazard-analysis, and safety-evidence practices for energetic or safety-critical hardware.
 * Experience with supplier technical oversight, configuration control, traceability, and technical-data review for controlled or safety-critical components.
 * Experience with modeling and simulation processes and tools (e.g. Design of Experiments ,Digital Twins, Ansys Tool chain, MATLAB, Hydrocode, CTH).
 * Technical leadership experience across engineering, safety, test, manufacturing, quality, suppliers, customers, and program management.
 * Ability to lead technical reviews, communicate risks and evidence clearly, and mentor engineers in disciplined engineering practice.

Highly Desired Differentiators

 * Leadership on fielded or government-qualified warhead, energetic-payload, or munitions programs.
 * Direct experience shaping or executing insensitive-munitions strategy, survivability assessment, or associated redesign efforts.
 * Experience preparing technical evidence for DoD or service munitions-safety reviews.
 * Background with government laboratories, test ranges, or munitions-development organizations.
 * Experience using physics-based analysis, modeling, and test correlation to support payload design decisions.
 * Experience transitioning energetic hardware from development into qualified, repeatable production.
 * Experience supporting multiple military services, international programs, or controlled export programs.



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