Systems Engineer (WBZ)

Requirements:

• Hold a Top Secret clearance with the ability to obtain SCI access, and maintain the clearance required for assigned work throughout the contract period.
• Have an ABET-accredited degree in engineering or a related field. Engineering technology degrees do not qualify.
• Meet one of the following education and experience profiles: an ABET-accredited masters or doctoral degree in a related field and at least 20 years of relevant technical or professional experience, including 12 years in DoW/DoD; or an ABET-accredited bachelors degree in a related field and at least 25 years of relevant experience, including 15 years in DoW/DoD.

Responsibilities:

• Bridge warfighter capability needs with acquisition planning by researching program information, conducting analyses, offering systems engineering insight, and preparing briefings.
• Coordinate with development planning, technology, intelligence, acquisition, sustainment, and user communities.
• Apply systems engineering expertise across requirements, acquisition, and sustainment; help define requirements and develop integrated acquisition, investment, technology, intelligence, and sustainment strategies.
• Develop architecture-based capability requirements and integrated options that support interoperability across platforms, programs, phases, and enterprises.
• Help initiate, write, review, develop, and implement acquisition and engineering documentation, including test plans, strategies, requests for proposals, and milestone materials.
• Support Systems Engineering Technical Reviews by evaluating deliverables and design maturity against review criteria, and providing technical recommendations to program and engineering leaders.
• Prepare airworthiness plans, certification materials, compliance reports, flight releases, and type certificates, and present documentation during board reviews.
• Develop and brief action plans for deficiency reports and system safety risks; prepare safety records and assessments for review boards and working groups.
• Develop and present Operational Safety, Suitability and Effectiveness documentation.
• Prepare aircraft modification packages and present them through board reviews.
• Support software reviews, readiness assessments, demonstrations, test readiness reviews, and fielding recommendations.
• Identify, assess, and analyze future capability solution sets, including during program reviews and integrated baseline reviews.
• Review systems engineering initiatives related to commercial acquisition policies and practices, and assist with studies spanning multiple divisions.
• Communicate engineering solutions, risk analyses, and future capabilities across the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center and with major commands, other enterprises, and Air Staff.
• Support program transitions into and out of the B-2 Division, and plan across families of systems and systems of systems, including capability manager strategies.
• Support technology processes and initiatives, including applied technology councils and small business innovation research activities.
• Review planning documents for realistic industrial-base execution and promote modeling and simulation throughout the acquisition life cycle, including shared tools for government and industry.
• Help integrate intelligence information and infrastructure into cross-enterprise capability planning and acquisition, recommend capability integration options, and organize engineering briefings for cross-divisional discussion.

Technologies:

• AI
• Support
• Doctrine
• Matrix
• OSS

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We are Credence, a privately held company providing technology-enabled solutions—including AI/ML, enterprise modernization, and advanced intelligence capabilities—to major federal defense and health organizations. We focus on client mission success, practice servant leadership, are regularly recognized as a top place to work, and have appeared on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies for 12 years. We have an immediate opening for a principal-level B-2 Systems Engineer supporting the B-2 Divisions aircraft modernization, testing, production, fielding, and sustainment mission at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma. The role supports a high-demand, low-density fleet undergoing concurrent efforts to address obsolescence and deliver critical aerial denial, anti-access, and nuclear capabilities. We offer medical, dental, and vision coverage; retirement plans; life insurance; paid time off and family leave; short- and long-term disability; and training and development.

last updated 44 week of 2026