Senior Systems Engineer

This position requires onsite work in Aurora, CO and an active TS/SCI security clearance. Candidates who do not hold this clearance are not eligible for hire.

About the role

Solidus has an exciting opportunity for a Sr Systems Engineer supporting the Space Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (SISR) business unit. Your expertise in requirements, architecture and design elaboration, system engineering analyses, script development, and interface definition and control will be essential.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and define how the system works, creating use cases
• Decompose requirements, define system interfaces, and help determine how requirements will be validated and verified by the test team
• Provide engineering support for the execution of a portion of the program's test program, including test processes, baseline definition, and test architecture design
• Support regression testing across deliverable releases to the program baseline
• Support and attend technical reviews and technical interchanges in support of the program

Requirements

• Active TS/SCI security clearance (required prior to start date)
• U.S. citizenship (required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance)
• A minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience
• Bachelor's degree
• Cultural fit within a collaborative team environment
• Experience with systems engineering lifecycle, roles, and functions, with specific experience in one or more of the following areas:
  • Concept of Operations (ConOps) development
  • Requirements definition and management
  • Functional analysis or interface definition and control
• Experience on a government contract in systems engineering
• Experience in a project domain (e.g., mission management ground systems, space-based ISR platforms)
• Experience with Agile principles, including Agile systems engineering practices and understanding of Agile roles

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in an Agile development environment and with Agile development tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket)
• Experience with MBSE tools (e.g., Cameo Systems Modeler)
• Experience with requirements management in DOORS or other requirements databases

Pay

• Full benefits: $138,000 to $172,000 annually
• Reduced benefits (no medical, dental, or vision): Up to $185,000 annually

Benefits

Solidus offers outstanding benefits, generous PTO, and much more.