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Senior Principal Component Engineer Chantilly, VA | Cypress, CA | Andover, MA Enjoy every other Friday off

Join Mercury Systems as a Sr. Principal Component Engineer and help shape the future of missioncritical space and defense technologies. In this role, you will drive component engineering strategy across highvisibility programs, influencing design decisions that safeguard warfighters, protect critical infrastructure, and enable nextgeneration aerospace solutions. You'll work in a fastpaced, collaborative environment where your expertise directly strengthens our products and our customer's mission. This is an opportunity to lead, innovate, and meaningfully contribute from day one.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the lead EEEE parts or materials-and-processes engineer across space and terrestrial programs, driving component engineering strategy.
• Lead component reviews, assessments, and analyses to ensure compliance with space, military, and customer program requirements.
• Collaborate closely with customers, government agencies, suppliers, and crossfunctional teams to resolve supply chain issues, mature PMP processes, and meet contractual obligations.
• Guide technology insertion, component selection, and standardization while balancing business, environmental, and circuit application constraints.
• Lead proposal efforts on behalf of component engineering by analyzing and providing basis of estimates.
• Generate and update component drawings, verification packages, and risk assessments supporting design reviews.
• Perform alternatepart evaluations, reliability assessments, and support MRB activities.
• Develop EEEE parts specifications, screen/qualification test plans, and manage part qualifications with external test houses.
• Present non-standard part approval requests (NSPARS), non-standard material approval requests (NSMARS), and technical findings to customers with confidence and clarity.
• Design and lead component engineering processes spanning part reviews, documentation, up screen management, non-conformance tracking, etc.
• Mentor junior engineers and promote knowledge sharing across programs.

Required Qualifications

• Ideally a Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline, or 10+ years of relevant experience of relevant component engineering experience in lieu of a college degree.
• Ideally 10+ years of relevant industry experience (defense, aerospace)
• Prior experience serving as a lead component engineer / parts engineer / reliability engineer or similar role on defense, aerospace, or space programs.
• Prior experience serving as the component engineering representative on proposals for space and military applications.
• Strong knowledge of military/industry standards (MIL, ASTM, AEC, ESA, NASA).
• Understanding of electronic fabrication processes (SMT, chip and wire,... For full info follow application link.

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