System Engineer II

VTG is looking for a System Engineer II in Chantilly, VA. This role performs systems engineering tasks with limited supervision, translating mission needs into system requirements and engineering products. The engineer coordinates across stakeholders to maintain technical alignment, supports design trade studies, and ensures requirements are verifiable and traceable through implementation and test.

Responsibilities

• Lead or support requirements development, decomposition, and management; maintain end‑to‑end traceability from mission needs through verification.
• Develop and maintain systems engineering artifacts such as system specifications, interface documentation, architecture views, and technical baselines.
• Support integration planning and coordination across engineering disciplines (software, network, cyber, cloud, test).
• Contribute to technical reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR or equivalent), including preparing materials and closing review actions.
• Support verification planning and test‑readiness activities; ensure requirements are measurable and testable.
• Identify technical risks/issues, propose mitigations, and support configuration and change‑control processes.

Requirements

• TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph required.
• 5–9+ years of relevant systems engineering experience.
• Demonstrated experience with requirements management and development of engineering documentation.
• Experience working in a structured delivery environment (Agile, iterative, or traditional engineering lifecycles).
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, IT, Business, or a related field.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Model‑Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) / SysML and/or architecture frameworks such as DoDAF.
• Familiarity with integration, verification, and configuration‑management practices.
• Prior support to U.S. Government programs (DoD, Federal, or Civil).

Pay

VTG’s estimated starting pay range is $100,000 – $165,000 annually, which is a general guideline for the geographic location. When extending an offer, VTG also considers work experience, education, skill level, market considerations and may possibly include contractual requirements which may cause an offer to fall outside of this range.