System Requirements Engineer
About The Position
The Production, Mission Operations, and Enhancements Division is seeking a Graduating Senior or Recent College Graduate to join the Draper Systems Engineering team. Candidates will learn and apply the fundamentals of systems engineering to a broad, highly technical portfolio. A successful candidate will be highly motivated to support the delivery of technology solutions that are of strategic importance to the nation, dedicated to developing the in-depth mission and technology domain expertise that enable realization of such solutions for complex systems, and capable of working & coordinating responsibilities inside a multidisciplinary team. Tasking may include: Identification of customer needs, development of use cases, requirements analysis and flow-down, system concept/architecture development (including analysis of alternatives, test design, interface definition/control, verification/test planning, development of system engineering documentation, model development, vehicle and mission-level simulation development, performance assessment, documentation of analysis results, and presentation of results both internal and external stake-holders. The individual should be a highly motivated self-starter with willingness to learn and participate in an exciting team environment. The opportunity to work as part of team developing state-of-the-art test equipment will enable significant growth opportunities for a motivated individual.
Requirements
- 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
- Roles may require 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.
- Requires a bachelor's degree in engineering, physics, mathematics, or related field.
- 0-3 years experience in systems engineering with emphasis in requirements engineering.
- Applicants selected for this position will be required to obtain and maintain a government security clearance.
Nice To Haves
- Masters degree preferred.
Responsibilities
- 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.
Benefits
- 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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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
