Senior Systems Engineer - HYBRID - Fire Control Development preferred at General Dynamics Mission Systems, Inc
Pittsfield, MA
$118,519–$131,482from the description
Jul 14, 2026
Pittsfield, MA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A systems engineering role supporting the D5LE2 program — the next life extension of the U.S. Navy's Trident II D5 strategic weapons system — within General Dynamics Mission Systems' Fire Control engineering group in Pittsfield, MA. Day-to-day work centers on requirements analysis, system architecture, and design using MBSE tools such as Cameo/MagicDraw and DOORS, with key program milestones (PDR 2028, CDR 2032) as near-term targets. Suited to an experienced systems engineer comfortable operating across the full development lifecycle in a safety-critical, classified defense environment.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · Bachelor's required · Secret clearance · Full-time
Advertised as Mid, but the requirements read as Senior.
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
What the occupation pays Median $119,144 (middle half $81,115–$160,963). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (11)
The caller has declared this a fully-remote role; remote=true is set per that instruction, overriding the posting's own language ('minimum of travel to Pittsfield once every 3 weeks'). No metro is inferred.
The title 'Advanced Systems Engineer 2' maps to a numeric level 2, which is treated as Mid for the level advertised in the title; however, the actual requirements (5+ years, full system life cycle ownership, technical leadership, safety-critical defense program) support a Senior classification.
Clearance is stated as 'must be able to obtain' a Secret — gated on eligibility, not on holding an active clearance. Marked as Secret required accordingly.
Degree requirement: Bachelor's in a relevant STEM field is the stated minimum; a Master's with 3 years is offered as an alternative path, so Bachelor's is the floor.
Cameo/MagicDraw and DOORS are listed together as 'or equivalent' system modeling tools under the Knowledge/Skills section — each is a named alternative for the same modeling-tool requirement; they are emitted as cross-alternatives of each other.
Requirements management is listed as a distinct proficiency ('fully proficient in requirements management tools') separate from the named tools, so it is retained as its own skill.
Digital engineering, Modeling and Simulation, and AI appear in context/responsibility sections without firm gating language — listed as preferred.
The role is Systems Engineering on a defense weapons program; 15-1299 (Computer Occupations, All Other) is used as the closest available code since Systems Engineering is not a precise BLS SOC match; 15-1211 (Computer Systems Analysts) is the runner-up given the requirements analysis and system design emphasis.
Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): requirements management, digital engineering.
Requires a Secret clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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