Senior Systems Engineer

Terma Inc (TUS), the US subsidiary of Denmark based Terma A/S, is searching for a highly qualified Senior Systems Engineer to join our team of exceptionally dedicated professionals in an exciting and rewarding fast paced highly successful company. Leveraging the outstanding Terma reputation and our strong relationship with the US DoD, Homeland Security and large Prime Contractors for more than three decades, Terma has developed a significant presence in the U.S. as provider of mission critical solutions for aerospace, defense and security sectors. We are known as an independent, agile, and fast responding partner for mission customized solutions. For further information, please visit www.terma.com.

Location: Warner Robins, GA

The Challenge:

The Senior Systems Engineer will participate in engineering activities to ensure successful product development and integration, timely execution of programs, and total customer satisfaction. This includes a wide variety of tasks from the systems engineering discipline, and tasks specifically relevant to our avionic products’ domain (Electronic Warfare Self-Protection Systems), where your contributions are central to our success. Tasks may include interfacing with stakeholders, developing requirements, architecture and design, integration, and verification. You may also help create or improve plans and procedures, generate and present briefings, and provide leadership in select areas.

Essential Job Tasks and Duties:

• Identify customer and stakeholder requirements
• Generate system requirements
• Requirements traceability, management, and compliance
• Develop novel system architecture
• Lead system integration and verification testing
• Lead various analyses, trade studies, and problem resolution
• Participate in peer review of work products
• Support engineering proposals
• Develop engineering documentation
• Generate and present project/customer briefings
  
  

Other Job Tasks:

• Contribute to process improvement
• Gather and report relevant project progress metrics
• Support customer testing as needed
• Special assignments
  
  

Qualifications:

Minimum Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related STEM discipline and 12 years’ experience in Systems Engineering for avionics or similar domain OR equivalent experience
  
  

Required Skills and Experience:

• Experience with on-aircraft Electronic Warfare and Self-Protection Systems
• U.S. citizenship with ability to obtain and maintain a Department of Defense (DoD) Security clearance
• Systems Thinking skills (understand the “big picture” and think in the abstract, while being able to work at a detailed level to understand and solve issues)
• Experience developing system architecture and signal processing solutions
• Proficient at writing system requirements and allocating to subsystems and/or components
• Experience integrating and testing in a System Integration Laboratory (SIL) setting to verify software and hardware solution is developed per requirements
• Experience in validation of avionics or software intensive systems
• Experience communicating and presenting complex technical topics across all organizational levels and customers
• Experience in functional and operational gap analysis, as well as data based decision making based on analysis and trade studies
• Experience investigating software stability issues, system anomalies/problem reports, and developing solution to problems
• Experience developing military or commercial avionics
• Ability to communicate well orally and in writing to teams, projects, management, and customers
• Ability to work as part of a team or alone
• Ability to work with a minimum of direction (willing to seek out “how” to accomplish tasks)
• Willingness to accept tasks outside regular duties when needed
• Ability to follow company policies and procedures
• Familiarity with MS Office Applications
• Willingness to travel up to 10% both domestic and abroad
  
  

Preferred Experience, Knowledge, and Skills:

• Familiarity or experience with Model Based Systems Engineering
• Certification as an INCOSE CSEP or ESEP
• Familiarity with IBM Rational-DOORS
• Familiarity with JIRA
  
  

Terma Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disabled and veterans.

Application deadline:

• April 2026