Systems Engineer GNC and Interfaces Security Clearance

Position: Systems Engineer for GNC Requirements and Interfaces with Security Clearance
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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Job Description

Summary:

The System Requirements Engineer 1 is responsible for the definition, analysis, and verification of a system and subsystem requirements to shape the overall system design. The role entails application of systems engineering methods within a model-based systems engineering (MBSE) and/or digital engineering framework. Responsibilities include the elucidation of mission needs, definition of use cases/CONOPS, functional system modeling, requirement tree development and flow-down, analysis-based requirement trades/balancing, simulation-based performance trades/analysis, simulation-based requirements verification, test strategy development, test design, and requirements management through product life-cycle.

Job Description:

Duties/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. Skills/Abilities

• 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. Education
Requires a bachelor's degree in engineering, physics, mathematics, or related field. Masters degree preferred. Experience
0-3 years experience in systems engineering with emphasis in requirements engineering. Additional

Job Description:

* Knowledge of GN&C, avionics architectures, fault tolerance, cyber/security, comms/encryption, threat modeling or other technologies may be required

* Elicit stakeholder needs, define concept of operations, and identify the system context to bound the problem space
* Work with subject-matter experts across engineering teams to define requirements and interface specifications
* Define expectations for verification and validation of requirements and interface specifications
* Maintain traceability with higher- and lower-level specifications as well as system architecture and design work products
* Build a culture of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) on Draper programs by establishing best practices and standards Applicants selected for this position will be required to obtain and maintain a government security…