Senior Product Development Systems Engineer

Overview

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.

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The Transition to Production and Deployment group at Draper is seeking a Product Development Systems Engineer to work within multidisciplinary teams to develop and provide product based full system lifecycle development and management of complex electrical, mechanical and software-based systems in mission domains such as: strategic defense systems, hypersonic and space systems, precision guided munitions, and autonomous air/sea vehicles.

A Product Systems Engineer will lead the Systems Engineering efforts across the system lifecycle. Starting at the System Level, a product engineer will follow the decomposition and design of the system throughout development, sell off and deployment.

Apply strong systems engineering principles to product development process for Product Deployment including concept, requirements management, design, simulation, Integration & Test and data package development, review and release.

Key job elements include the ability to engage with customers, cross functional teams and external partners to develop and manage requirements and interface designs for highly accurate strategic sensors, inertial navigation systems, fault tolerant computing, enhanced ground testing, integration and test environments, engineering qualification, factory acceptance test and deploy system surveillance and upgrades.

• Coordinate, schedule and 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.
• Lead 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.
• Drive solutions to complex problems with limited direction - contribute to task planning and test development, propose ways forward, and adapt appropriately to changes in program requirements.
• Lead small teams. Seeks to align team towards program goals and builds trust within the team.
• Provide insight and suggest design modifications based on analysis outcomes, and to apply analysis techniques across a range of technical challenges.
• Identify program/system-level technical risks and develop and execute mitigation strategies.
• Actively mentor less experienced engineers and provide thoughtful, constructive feedback.

• 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. Masters degree preferred.

5-10 years experience in systems engineering with emphasis in requirements engineering.

• Requirements Development, Implementation and Management
  • Requirement Solicitation including Stakeholder Needs, Measures of Performance, and Use Case Analysis
  • Experience with INCOSE Requirement Standards
  • Requirements Analysis (Traceability, Decomposition, Architecture)
  • Interface Development and Management
    • Familiarity with interface standards and interface coordination documentation: e.g. OSI Framework, DoDAF, SysML, Deterministic Communication Interface Coordination documentation, Development Management of Interface Signal and Message database or interface products
• Requirements and Design Compliance
  • Requirements Verification Traceability, System/Product Compliance Plans and Reporting
  • System Verification Development, Management and Execution
• DOORS Classic/DOORS Next Gen -…