Junior Systems Engineer (MBSE)

About the role

Bowhead seeks a Junior Systems Engineer (MBSE) to join the Tactical Communications and Electromagnetic Warfare (TCE) team in Stafford, VA. The engineer will provide systems engineering knowledge, technical guidance, and support to the program management office.

Responsibilities

• Plan, schedule, conduct, and coordinate detailed phases of engineering or scientific work in a project.
• Generate specifications or plans to support the development of acquisition documentation.
• Support technical findings, opinions, or recommendations.
• Perform customer liaison, make presentations, and attend customer meetings.
• Consult with stakeholders on technical applications to support program management decisions.
• Provide administrative and technical support for Systems Engineering Technical Reviews, including development and update of Technical Review Action Plans, Data Packages, summary reports, meeting minutes, action item trackers, and calendar/SharePoint updates.
• Support Configuration Management activities per approved plans, including baseline documentation, Engineering Change Proposals, and annexes; participate in Configuration Review Boards, Configuration Control Boards, and configuration audits.
• Maintain configuration and version control of system models and architecture artifacts to keep MBSE products synchronized with the approved technical baseline.
• Leverage systems engineering processes to inform the Integrated Master Schedule on key engineering events, documents, durations, and dependencies.
• Analyze user requirements and update system specification documents and Requirements Traceability Matrices (RTM) after each test event.
• Develop, execute, and analyze models and simulations for requirements analysis, architecture development, system behavior analysis, interface analysis, trade studies, performance assessment, and verification/validation.
• Use modeling and simulation results to evaluate alternatives, identify technical risks, assess performance, and support engineering decisions.
• Develop and maintain operational, functional, logical, and physical architectures.
• Model system capabilities, behaviors, interfaces, and dependencies.
• Analyze system requirements and develop functional and performance allocations.
• Establish and maintain traceability across requirements, architecture, design, and verification.
• Support system integration and interface definition across hardware, software, and subsystems.
• Conduct architecture and design trade studies using model‑based analyses.
• Coordinate with government and contractor engineering teams to ensure models reflect the current system baseline.
• Support verification and validation planning by linking requirements and architecture to test and verification activities.

Qualifications

• BS/BA degree in an engineering field.
• Minimum two (2+) years of systems engineering experience, with demonstrated experience supporting Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), Modeling & Simulation, system architecture development, requirements analysis, or related activities.
• Experience supporting government or military environments is highly desired.

Skills

• Intermediate knowledge of the Microsoft Office Suite (MS Teams, Word, Excel, SharePoint).
• Effective communication with all levels of employees and external contacts.
• Strong interpersonal skills, good judgment, and ability to work independently or as part of a team.

Pay

Targeted salary range is $75,000 to $90,000 annually, based on qualifications and experience. Salary is a general guideline; Bowhead considers scope, responsibilities, work experience, education/training, key skills, internal equity, and market considerations when extending an offer.

Physical Demands

• Must be able to lift up to 30 pounds.
• Must be able to stand and walk for prolonged periods.
• Must be able to twist, bend, and squat periodically.

Security Clearance

Must be able to maintain a Secret‑level security clearance. U.S. citizenship is required for Secret clearance at this location.