Systems Engineer

About the role

The Systems Engineer performs end-to-end technical planning and execution across the full systems engineering lifecycle. This role focuses on system integration, verification and validation, and cost and risk analysis to ensure complex systems are supportable, effective, and aligned with customer requirements and program constraints.

Responsibilities

• Perform technical planning for total systems, including defining system concepts, architectures, and integration strategies.
• Conduct system integration activities to ensure hardware and software components function together as an effective, cohesive system.
• Execute verification and validation activities to confirm that systems meet all specified requirements and perform as intended.
• Perform cost and risk analyses to evaluate technical solutions and recommend approaches that balance performance, schedule, and budget constraints.
• Conduct supportability and effectiveness analyses to ensure systems are maintainable, reliable, and operationally suitable throughout their lifecycle.
• Analyze systems at all levels of the product lifecycle, including concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, maintenance, and disposal.
• Translate customer requirements into precise hardware and software specifications using systems engineering best practices.
• Develop, write, and maintain system requirements and associated documentation throughout the systems engineering lifecycle.
• Apply model-based systems engineering (MBSE) methods and tools to represent, analyze, and manage system architectures and requirements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to coordinate system design, integration, test, and validation activities.
• Contribute to or lead project activities, providing technical leadership and guidance to ensure successful delivery of system solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and at least 5 years of experience in systems engineering or a closely related field.
• Demonstrated experience across the systems engineering lifecycle, including requirements writing, verification, and validation.
• Strong experience in system integration for complex hardware and software systems.
• Ability to perform functional analysis, timeline analysis, and detailed trade studies.
• Experience translating customer requirements into hardware and software specifications.
• Understanding of cost and risk analysis as applied to technical solutions and system designs.
• Experience performing supportability and effectiveness analyses for system products.
• Experience leading projects or technical workstreams.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and documentation skills.