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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** Job Description

Summary:

** 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 full system lifecycle development and management of complex electrical, mechanical and software-based test equipment for systems in mission domains such as: strategic defense systems, hypersonic and space systems, precision guided munitions, and autonomous air/sea vehicles.

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

• Apply strong systems engineering principles to product development process for Product Deployment; concept, requirements management design, simulation, Integration & Test processes and data package development, review and release with a high understanding of the follow-on phases to assure successful next phases of the system    
• Key job elements include the ability to engage with customers, cross functional teams and external partners to development 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.
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* Job Description:

**** Duties/Responsibilities*
* • 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.

** 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…