Senior Requirements Engineer- MBSE
Peraton•Arlington, VA
About The Position
Peraton is delivering mission planning, digital engineering, and command-and-control capabilities for the U.S. Government’s space communications enterprise. The Senior Requirements Engineer works with system integrators, architects, and MBSE teams to define, refine, and document mission-planning and component-level specifications. The role ensures requirements are clear, consistent, traceable, and verifiable, and contributes to authoritative digital engineering artifacts that guide system design and implementation.
Requirements
- Minimum of 12 years of experience with a bachelor's degree; 10 years with a master's degree; or 7 years with a Ph.D. Four additional years of relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
- Possess and maintain at least a Secret clearance, with the ability to upgrade to TS/SCI.
- Experience performing requirements engineering or systems engineering in a complex software or system-of-systems environment.
- Ability to derive, decompose, and document system and component requirements based on mission needs, architecture definitions, or MBSE models.
- Experience reviewing or developing system specifications, interface definitions, or digital engineering artifacts.
- Knowledge of requirements management tools or MBSE modeling environments used to capture requirements behavior, architecture, or traceability.
- Experience supporting verification planning, including creating requirement verification methods, acceptance criteria, or verification artifacts.
- Ability to interpret system models, behavior diagrams, and architecture views to ensure alignment between requirements and system representation.
Nice To Haves
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across engineering, architecture, and integration teams.
- Ability to analyze complex requirements and support disciplined configuration control and traceability.
- Strong organizational and problem-solving skills, with the ability to prioritize work in a multidisciplinary environment.
Responsibilities
- Provide feedback, clarification, and refinement of the Mission Planning Specification in coordination with the System Integrator and architecture teams.
- Derive component-level specifications from mission-level requirements and behaviors represented in the MBSE model.
- Ensure requirements are captured, traceable, and aligned with system architecture, interfaces, and model behavior.
- Support creation of requirement verification artifacts for mission-planning and component-level requirements, including verifiable acceptance criteria.
- Collaborate with MBSE practitioners to validate that system behavior, interfaces, and architectures reflect requirement intent.
- Participate in technical reviews, requirement walkthroughs, and traceability assessments across engineering disciplines.
Benefits
- Heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for employees and dependents.
- 25 days of PTO accrued annually, up to a generous PTO cap.
- Eligible to participate in a bonus plan.
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
- Health savings account.
- Short- and long-term disability.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
- Parental leave.
- 401(k).
- Paid time off for vacation.
- Company-paid holidays.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
