Systems Engineer II

Posted: 2026-10-19 | Location: Middletown, RI (127 John Clarke Rd, BBN Middletown, Ste 3) | Role type: Onsite (one day remote per week) | Security clearance: Active DoD Secret clearance required (U.S. citizenship required)

About the role

RTX BBN Technologies, a high-tech research & development company, seeks a creative, organized, and people-centered Systems Engineer II for its Physical Sciences & Systems business unit. This position involves navigating technical challenges, facilitating team action plans, providing inputs to integrated master schedules, assisting in process improvements, and interfacing with customers. Strong organizational skills are needed to manage and track multiple parallel technical activities. Some domestic travel (less than 10%) may be required.

Responsibilities

• Assist in managing system requirements
• Capture program requirements baseline in a requirements database
• Analyze, develop and decompose Level 1 requirements to Levels 2 through 4, through collaborating with leads across engineering disciplines
• Help develop and execute the requirements verification strategy
• Work with the Design and Test leads to ensure validation/verification plans and procedures are robust and satisfy system sell-off requirements
• Ensure the system meets performance and non-performance requirements
• Assist in process improvement initiatives
• Perform various system development and troubleshooting tasks
• Interface and collaborate with external customer scientists, engineers and program management
• Work within program leadership team to ensure program success
• Communicate through oral presentations and written reports on program status, issues and success

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and 2 years of prior relevant experience, or an Advanced Degree in a related field
• Ability to obtain and maintain a secret U.S. government issued security clearance (U.S. citizenship required)

Qualifications

• Experience in multidiscipline system design and testing
• Experience in requirements analysis, development, decomposition and maintenance
• Familiarity with requirements traceability matrices
• Experience participating in configuration control boards (CCBs)
• Familiarity with a requirements database tool, such as DOORS®
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Ability to work in a collaborative team environment

Pay

Salary range: $68,900 – $131,100 USD (good faith estimate representative of all experience levels; final offer considers role, responsibilities, experience, location, education, and key skills).

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability
• 401(k) match
• Flexible spending accounts
• Flexible work schedules
• Employee assistance program
• Employee Scholar Program
• Parental leave
• Paid time off and holidays

Specific benefits depend on business unit and collective-bargaining agreement coverage. Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs may be available depending on position level and collective-bargaining agreement; payments are not guaranteed and depend on individual, business unit, and company performance.

Schedule

• Onsite (primary work location: Middletown, RI)
• One day per week remote work permitted
• Domestic travel less than 10%