Review FAA requirement documents, advisory circulars, and applicable regulations (e.g., 14 CFR parts) to extract intent, constraints, and acceptance criteria.
Manage the backlog for one or more Agile teams, prioritizing features based on stakeholder needs, and ensuring the development team builds the right functionality.
Engage with customer stakeholders to identify use cases with an emphasis on completeness, testability, alignment with operational workflows, and readiness for validation trials.
Decompose high-level regulatory requirements into specific, testable capability statements (Agile features) with clear acceptance criteria mapped to FAA compliance outcomes (e.g., performance thresholds, safety margins, required reporting formats).
Systematically capture and communicate design decisions, performance trade-offs, regulatory compliance rationales, and risk assessments with each release, enabling reviewers to trace your decision-making process and provide informed feedback.
Prepare and review technical documentation, including use cases, user interface specifications, and requirements traceability.
Lead and participate in structured reviews and inspections.

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field and at least 8 years of relevant experience or a Master's degree with at least 6 years of experience
Experience and familiarity with Agile methodology, principles, and tools
Experience in the role of the Agile Product Owner, including owning and prioritizing the product backlog, defining complete product backlog items (user stories), making timely decisions on scope, and acceptance of work
Strong understanding of disciplined engineering processes, including attention to detail
Past practical exposure to writing, testing, debugging, and maintaining software or scripts
Clear and effective verbal and written communication
Experience with the design of cloud-based systems
Experience in engaging customers to understand needs, deliver solutions, manage expectations, and maintain an ongoing relationship
Ability to obtain SF-85 Public Trust suitability determination
US Citizenship.

Senior Systems Engineer

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