Requirements Engineer

Draper•Huntsville, AL

4d•$62,500 - $140,000•Onsite

About The Position

The MTS 1 Requirements Engineer will join the Digital Retrieval, Engineering, Architecture, and Management (DREAM) Group to support the definition, analysis, and documentation of system level requirements for multi domain national security programs. Working under senior engineers, the incumbent will apply basic technical knowledge to well defined problems, develop a solid foundation in model driven engineering, and grow technical breadth through continuous learning.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in engineering, physics, mathematics, or related field.
0-3 years experience in systems engineering with emphasis in requirements engineering.
Highly-organized, capable of approaching problems with a system-level perspective
Strong oral and written communication skills
Practical experience with the systems engineering process
Familiarity with model-based systems engineering (MBSE) and/or digital engineering (DE) tools/methods

Nice To Haves

Masters degree preferred.
Proficiency with modeling/simulation, computer coding languages, SysML, STPA, DOORs, and/or other engineering analysis tools
Knowledge of GN&C, avionics architectures, fault tolerance, cyber/security, comms/encryption, or other technologies may be required as defined in the summary.

Responsibilities

Assist in gathering and documenting functional and non functional requirements from stakeholders.
Translate high level mission objectives into clear, verifiable task level requirements.
Contribute to requirement traceability matrices under senior guidance.
Gain hands on experience with SysML tools (e.g., MagicDraw) to create simple requirement models.
Participate in trade space exploration (TSE) activities to evaluate alternatives.
Support development of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) components and cross domain data workflows.
Write basic Python scripts for requirement analysis or data automation.
Follow Draper’s QMS and established best practice guidelines; suggest improvements when appropriate.
Work closely with lead engineers, cross functional teammates (systems, ML, data science), and external partners.
Produce concise technical notes, meeting minutes, and status updates.
Attend internal training, webinars, and conferences to broaden technical skill set.
Participate in the requirements assessments.
Assists in strategic technical planning, project management, performance engineering, risk management and interface design.
Conducts requirements engineering, scheduling, reliability, development, and evaluation, maintainability and analysis for training.
Supports the analyses and allocation of requirements.
Assists in the capture and translation of mission and customer requirements/needs into systems/capability requirements and solutions.
Assist in the assessment effort in conducting both formal and informal evaluations and analysis.
Analyze assessment results and make improvement/change recommendations.
Ensure assessment results and recommendations can be incorporated into the requirements documentation.
Independently execute system engineering lifecycle assignments under the oversight of program leadership.
Provide content for technical reports and presentations with appropriate guidance.
Adapt appropriately to changes in program priorities and requirements.
Identify challenges associated with assigned work and communicate them to project leadership.