Systems Engineer

About the role

This position supports government programs and requires the ability to obtain and maintain a favorable Public Trust investigation.

Responsibilities

• Review FAA requirement documents, advisory circulars, and applicable regulations (e.g., 14 CFR parts) to extract intent, constraints, interfaces, and acceptance criteria.
• Translate operational and regulatory requirements into detailed, testable system requirements, features, and acceptance criteria that support Agile development activities.
• Collaborate with Product Owners and development teams to refine backlog items, clarify system behaviors, and ensure technical completeness and traceability.
• Engage with customer stakeholders, operators, and subject matter experts to identify use cases with an emphasis on completeness, testability, alignment with operational workflows, and readiness for validation trials.
• Decompose high-level regulatory and operational requirements into specific capability statements with measurable performance criteria and traceability to FAA compliance outcomes.
• Develop and maintain requirements traceability between stakeholder needs, system requirements, architecture artifacts, implementation tasks, and verification activities.
• Support system design discussions by evaluating technical approaches, documenting trade-offs, identifying integration impacts, and assessing operational or regulatory risks.
• Prepare and review technical documentation, including system specifications, interface definitions, use cases, operational workflows, verification plans, and requirements traceability matrices.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, technical interchange meetings, structured reviews, and system inspections.
• Coordinate with software engineering, test, cybersecurity, and DevSecOps teams to ensure system requirements are fully implemented, validated, and operationally supportable.
• Aid in defining verification and validation strategies, including support for demonstrations, integration testing, operational assessments, and customer reviews.
• Systematically capture and communicate design decisions, performance trade-offs, compliance rationales, and risk assessments to support program transparency and technical governance.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, systems engineering, or a related field with 4–8 years of relevant experience, or a Master’s degree with 2–6 years of experience.
• Experience working within Agile development environments, including familiarity with Agile methodologies, principles, and tools.
• Experience performing systems engineering activities across the system development lifecycle, including requirements analysis, decomposition, traceability, integration, and verification.
• Strong understanding of disciplined engineering processes and attention to detail in highly regulated or mission-critical environments.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional technical teams, customers, and stakeholders to define and refine system capabilities.
• Familiarity with software development concepts, architectures, interfaces, and integration considerations.
• Clear and effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience with cloud-based systems and modern software architectures.
• Ability to obtain SF-85 Public Trust suitability determination.

Qualifications

• Experience with Java, Python, React, and scripting languages.
• Knowledge of AI-assisted development workflows and tools (i.e., Claude Code, Codex, etc.).
• Knowledge of DevSecOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of air traffic control systems, general aviation, and/or flight services.
• Practical knowledge of FAA/DoD systems, technical policies, standards, and orders.
• Experience leveraging requirements-management and model-based engineering tools (e.g., Cameo, DOORS, Jama, Jira with traceability plugins, etc.).
• Experience supporting verification and validation activities in regulated environments.
• Experience with systems integration, interface management, and operational testing in large-scale distributed systems.

Skills

• Systems Engineering
• Agile Methodologies
• Software Development
• Cloud-Based Systems
• DevSecOps Practices
• FAA/DoD Systems
• Verification and Validation

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

$87,100.00 - $157,450.00

Schedule

Not specified.