Systems Engineer

Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) • Carmel, IN

11h • $131,000 - $156,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Systems Engineer develops and delivers quality solutions by working closely with stakeholders and cross-functional teams throughout the product lifecycle. The role translates business, regulatory, customer, and operational needs into product context, requirements, functional and logical design, interfaces, engineering decisions, and verification and validation expectations. The successful candidate applies systems thinking and objective evidence to balance product outcomes, technical risk, quality, and delivery needs.

MISO manages the electricity grid and energy market in the Central U.S., using research and advanced technology to help ensure reliable power for 45 million Americans. The role's appropriate level will be determined based on experience and knowledge.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
• At least 3 years of relevant systems engineering experience applying engineering practices across product or system lifecycle activities such as context definition, requirements, design, integration, verification, and validation.
• Strong understanding of requirements development, allocation, decomposition, quality assessment, traceability, and lifecycle management.
• Knowledge of functional and logical design, system modeling, information flows, and interface management in complex technical environments.
• Experience with verification and validation planning, requirement coverage assessment, objective evidence, technical-risk evaluation, and readiness recommendations.
• Ability to facilitate structured trade studies, evaluate alternatives, analyze change impacts, and communicate evidence-based engineering recommendations.
• Strong problem-solving skills, including systems thinking, failure-mode analysis, root-cause analysis, troubleshooting, and resolving ambiguous or complex technical issues.
• Familiarity with engineering documentation, quality practices, and tools such as IBM DOORS Next and Cameo.

Nice To Haves

• Systems Engineer certification from the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE).

Responsibilities

• Translate business, regulatory, customer, and operational needs into feasible, verifiable, traceable product requirements and acceptance expectations.
• Establish product context, boundaries, operational scenarios, assumptions, constraints, dependencies, and affected capabilities.
• Develop technology-independent functional and logical product designs defining behavior, functions, interactions, information flows, interfaces, and responsibility allocation.
• Define product verification and validation needs, methods, evidence expectations, coverage criteria, and technical-readiness inputs.
• Lead product-level engineering decision analysis and trade studies, documenting alternatives, evaluation criteria, evidence, assumptions, impacts, and technical risks.
• Perform product change and impact analysis across requirements, architecture, interfaces, data, processes, dependencies, verification evidence, and operations.
• Identify and manage technical risks, failure modes, and quality attributes, including security, reliability, resilience, maintainability, usability, performance, and supportability.
• Maintain product requirements, functional and logical models, interface definitions, traceability, decisions, and other authoritative engineering baselines.
• Assess requirements quality, design alignment, verification coverage, evidence sufficiency, unresolved gaps, and residual technical risk to support readiness decisions.
• Mentor less-experienced engineers and improve engineering methods, tools, standards, templates, training, and reusable practices.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package
• 401k
• Vacation
• Sick and safe time available on the first day of employment
• Eligible for an annual bonus if individual performance and company objectives are met

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level