Human Systems Integration (HSI) Engineer - Remote Opportunity

Serco Inc. (Serco) is the Americas division of Serco Group, plc. In North America, Serco’s 9,000+ employees support vital services in Defense, Citizen Services, and Transportation for clients including every branch of the U.S. military, numerous U.S. Federal civilian agencies, the Intelligence Community, the Canadian government, and state and local governments.

About the role

The Human Systems Integration (HSI) Engineer serves as the technical authority for integrating human considerations into the acquisition, design, development, testing, fielding, sustainment, and modernization of Navy systems. The incumbent ensures systems are designed to optimize total system performance by balancing human capabilities and limitations with hardware, software, training, facilities, and operational requirements. This is a remote opportunity.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the program's technical expert for Human Systems Integration (HSI) activities throughout the acquisition lifecycle.
• Develop, implement, and evaluate HSI strategies, plans, analyses, and technical recommendations in accordance with DoD and Department of the Navy guidance.
• Integrate HSI considerations into systems engineering processes, including requirements development, architecture, design reviews, risk management, verification, validation, and testing.
• Conduct Human Factors Engineering (HFE) analyses to evaluate human performance, workload, situational awareness, usability, accessibility, maintainability, and operator safety.
• Assess impacts across the seven HSI domains:
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Personnel
  • Training
  • Safety and Occupational Health
  • Habitability
  • Survivability
  • Manpower
• Develop HSI requirements, performance measures, and verification criteria for acquisition documentation, including capability documents, specifications, systems engineering plans, and test plans.
• Participate in technical reviews including System Requirements Review (SRR), Preliminary Design Review (PDR), Critical Design Review (CDR), Test Readiness Reviews (TRR), and operational assessments.
• Evaluate contractor designs, technical data packages, analyses, and test results to verify compliance with HSI requirements.
• Coordinate with systems engineers, software engineers, logisticians, cybersecurity personnel, test organizations, fleet representatives, and program management offices to resolve technical issues affecting human performance.
• Perform trade studies balancing mission effectiveness, lifecycle cost, technical risk, manpower requirements, training burden, and operational readiness.
• Support developmental testing, operational testing, usability evaluations, simulations, and field assessments.
• Identify HSI-related technical risks and recommend mitigation strategies.
• Prepare technical reports, engineering analyses, briefings, and recommendations for senior leadership.
• Support configuration management, engineering change proposals, and system modernization efforts.
• Maintain awareness of emerging technologies, digital engineering methods, modeling and simulation tools, and evolving HSI best practices.

Requirements

• Ability to obtain, maintain, or transfer a U.S. Department of War (DoW) Secret security clearance.
• U.S. citizenship is required.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Human Factors Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, or a closely related technical discipline.
• Five years of professional engineering experience applying systems engineering or HSI principles to complex systems.
• Experience with DoW or Navy.
• Ability to travel 10%.

Benefits

Serco offers a comprehensive benefits package for full-time employees, including:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Robust vacation and sick leave benefits, and flexible work arrangements where permitted by role or contract
• 401(k) plan with employer matching funds
• Tuition reimbursement program
• Life insurance and disability coverage
• Optional coverages that can be purchased, including pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection
• Birth, adoption, and parental leave benefits
• Employee Assistance Plan

Program availability may vary based on factors such as contract type, location, hire date, and applicable collective bargaining agreements.

Pay

Salary range for this position is provided as a general guideline and represents a good faith estimate across all experience levels. Actual base salary will be determined by factors including scope of the role, relevant experience, job-related knowledge, education and training, key skills, and geographic market considerations. For roles available in multiple states, the range may vary to reflect differences in local labor markets. Eligible positions may also include annual bonuses or long-term incentive opportunities.