The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory-posted 8 months ago
Full-time • Senior
Clearfield, UT
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

Draper is an independent, nonprofit research and development company headquartered in Cambridge, MA. The 2,000+ employees of Draper tackle important national challenges with a promise of delivering successful and usable solutions. From military defense and space exploration to biomedical engineering, lives often depend on the solutions we provide. Our multidisciplinary teams of engineers and scientists work in a collaborative environment that inspires the cross-fertilization of ideas necessary for true innovation. The Embedded Microsystems and Sensors Group at Draper is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer to develop and manage requirements, architecture, interface documentation, and system specifications for systems in mission domains such as: embedded secure communications, advanced electronics miniaturization, edge processing and computing, trustworthy secure platforms, and autonomous air/sea vehicles. This role will involve working across a multi-disciplinary team (including external and internal stakeholders) innovating new microelectronics system solutions over the full system development lifecycle. The group has multidisciplinary proficiencies in secure systems architecture, hardware security and resilience, software security and resilience, system validation and accreditation, sensor development and validation, and cryptography.

  • Drive stakeholder needs, define concept of operations, and identify the system context to bound the problem space that the system will address
  • Lead subject-matter experts across multiple engineering disciplines to define requirements & interface specifications and support program execution
  • Define expectations for verification & validation of requirements & interface specifications
  • Create cross-discipline architectures with micro-electronics focus using state of the art technologies and leveraging internal and external Subject Matter Experts
  • Analyze requirements & interfaces to define architectures & system designs
  • Maintain traceability with higher and lower-level specifications as well as system architecture & design work products
  • Lead a team developing and managing one or more requirements & interface specifications
  • Communicate with program members, program offices, and sponsors to present work to the technical and evaluation community
  • Bachelor's degree in engineering, physics, mathematics, or related field; Master's degree or higher preferred
  • 7-10+ years experience as systems engineer or related role
  • Experience developing and managing requirements for complex systems
  • Experience identifying, designing, and managing interfaces for complex systems
  • Experience defining expectations for verification & validation of requirements & interface specifications
  • Experience maintaining traceability between requirements and system architecture & design work products
  • Technical depth in fields relevant to electronics development, embedded systems, embedded software, or packaging miniaturization
  • Practical experience with simulation-based performance analysis
  • Practical experience with the systems engineering process
  • Experience in the development of System Security documentation per Government requirements
  • Experience planning and leading Systems Engineering Technical Reviews
  • Experience working with modern data bus / electrical interfaces for flight/space systems
  • Experience in writing innovative R D proposals to commercial and government sponsors
  • An understanding of the fundamentals of cryptographic key management, public key infrastructure, and NSA's Key Management Infrastructure
  • Familiarity with the unique aspects of space avionics: environmental testing (MIL-STD-810), radiation hardening, and EMI/EMC considerations (MIL-STD-461)
  • Active security clearance
  • Workplace flexibility
  • Employee clubs ranging from photography to yoga
  • Health and finance workshops
  • Off site social events
  • Discounts to local museums and cultural activities
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