Systems Engineer II

About the role

Torch Technologies is seeking a high-performing Systems Engineer to join a team leading the Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA’s) digital transformation initiative.

Responsibilities

• Conduct or contribute to engineering analyses and trade studies and provide recommendations supported by results and engineering experience.
• Develop systems engineering modernization strategies and implementation plans.
• Participate in technical interchange meetings with stakeholders and provide technical reviews of Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) data.
• Foster real-time, multi-user collaboration across engineering teams and stakeholders.
• Analyze Department of War (DoW) and MDA strategies, plans, policies, and processes and collaborate with senior leadership, technical teams, and stakeholders to ensure alignment.
• Promote efficiency, agility, and traceability in fast-paced engineering environments.
• Prepare and present briefings to senior leaders.
• Collaborate with diverse groups and joint initiatives and work in highly adaptive environments.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship
• Bachelor’s Degree in STEM field
• 2+ years applicable, progressively complex, Systems Engineering experience
• Active DoW security clearance at the SECRET or higher level

Qualifications

• Clear grasp of systems thinking, but capable of performing detailed analysis
• Proven experience in establishing, mentoring, and driving Systems Engineering best practices across organizations
• Transformation minded and growth oriented
• Work well in a team culture which prioritizes collaboration, mutual respect, and mission success, but also able to self-start and work independently
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including executive-level communication skills with the ability to present complex technical concepts to senior leadership

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in missile defense, preferably with the Missile Defense System or other large scale DoW Systems-of-Systems (SoS)
• A degree in Systems Engineering from an accredited university
• Mastery of digital engineering transformation tools, methodologies, and implementation strategies
• Formal training and/or experience in Systems Engineering standards and practices such as the INCOSE Systems Engineering Handbook, the Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge, and ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288
• Comprehensive mastery of requirements engineering, traceability frameworks, and full system life cycle engineering methodologies

Benefits

• ESOP participation
• 401(k) match
• medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability
• flexible spending accounts, Health Saving Accounts and Health Reimbursement Accounts
• EAP
• education assistance
• paid time off
• holidays