Systems Engineer-Space and Mission Critical Systems

** 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 Space and Mission Critical Systems group at Draper is seeking a motivated Systems Engineer to perform key systems engineering tasks in a model-based environment, using formal development and verification processes in support of Draper’s National Security and Space business areas. Leveraging Draper’s expertise in a variety of fields, the candidate will support the group’s mission in developing early-stage concepts all the way through to verified, fully-functional, deployed solutions.
This position will involve the following:

• Developing systems concepts, requirements, and architectures  
• Highly robust system engineering practices for mission critical systems  
• Development of radiation tolerant systems  
• Predicting and analyzing mission performance and reliability  
• Use of Model Based Systems Engineering Tools    The ideal candidate will be capable of working and communicating effectively with team members from multiple engineering disciplines, program management, senior engineering management, and customers.
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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.  
• Help define and execute system engineering lifecycle assignments and analysis approaches for a particular problem and independently execute assignments  
• Contribute high quality content for technical reports and presentations with minimal guidance  
• Proactively identify needs and concerns associated with design decisions 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
* * 3-5 years experience in systems engineering with emphasis in requirements engineering.
** Additional

Job Description:

**** Required Qualifications
*** B.S. with 4+ years’, or M.S. (preferred) with 2+ years’ experience in a relevant engineering discipline.  (Internships and co-ops may be considered for experience.)
* Experience with two or more of the following: stakeholder needs and use case analysis, requirements development and management, system architecture and conceptual design, operational concept development, ICD development,…