Principal Systems Engineer

AS&E® is a world leader in the development and production of state-of-the-art X-ray inspection systems. AS&E systems are used around the world to detect threats and contraband at ports, border crossings, high-threat facilities, and other environments. AS&E has an important mission - keeping the world a safer place. It is our employees who play the most important role in making our mission a reality.

AS&E offers motivated people a challenging, creative, and interesting environment in which to further the development, production, sales, and support of high-tech inspection systems.

Ours is an exciting, fast-paced workplace that attracts the best and brightest in the field. Join us and work with a team that is highly respected throughout the industry.Job Description:The successful candidate will demonstrate a track record of leading systems design, integration and test activities. The systems engineering group engages in the architecture and development of complex X-ray imaging security systems in collaboration with cross functional development teams. The candidate will work effectively in a multi-disciplinary product development environment, balancing competing performance requirement to arrive at testable and maintainable system architectures. The candidate will have experience managing technical relationships with design partners. The ideal candidate will be experienced in X-ray imaging systems development, familiar with the demands of motion control, inter-module dependencies and communications and imaging processing technology. Some responsibilities include: Develop system requirements and architectures from defined user needs, working with marketing, science and engineering staff; Specify, design, prototype and debug complex X-ray inspection subsystems for new platforms; Conduct technical risk and tradeoff analysis from the top-down and bottom-up; Perform root cause analysis on a variety of system performance issues and develop solutions and performance verification; Support existing products by responding to issues arising from internal testing and field use of the systems. The qualified candidate must be able to communicate technical ideas effectively to a multidisciplinary audience, orally and in writing; Derive subordinate requirements from the top level product requirements; Formulate system technical concept of operations and feasible technical approaches; Synthesize system architectures that are deployable, testable and maintainable; Analyze complex subsystem interactions and develop, implement and verify the solutions; Operate flexibly in a multi-team environment having competing priorities; Solve subtle problems, assessing multi-domain solutions with a high attention to detail and demonstrate strong analytical and decision-making skills.Requirements:Advanced degree in Physics or Engineering with demonstrated success in practical industrial applications 10 years experience in a similar role, with at least 5 years leading engineering development of capital equipment Design and development of Electro-mechanical software controlled systems Analysis tools such as Mathcad, Matlab, Mathematica or Maple is a plus Design tool such as SolidWorks, MS, C++ and C# are a plus Complex data acquisition electronics systems design a plus