Senior Requirements 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 SMTS will provide deep technical expertise across the full lifecycle of national security programs, translating system level mission goals into detailed, verifiable requirements and leading innovative, model driven solutions. Working in the Digital Retrieval, Engineering, Architecture, and Management (DREAM) Group, you will mentor teammates, drive process improvements, and ensure alignment with Draper’s strategic priorities.

• Requirements Engineering
  • Derive detailed component level requirements from system level directives.
  • Maintain requirement traceability matrices linking requirements to architecture, design, and test artifacts.
  • Write clear, measurable, and verifiable requirement statements.
• Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
  • Create and manage SysML models (e.g., Magic Draw) to represent requirements, interfaces, and architectures.
  • Conduct trade space analyses (TSE) to evaluate alternative designs and performance impacts.
  • Integrate digital twins and digital threads throughout the development lifecycle.
• Technical Design & Implementation
  • Lead the development of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions and cross domain data workflows.
  • Develop Python scripts or tools for custom requirement analysis and validation.
• Process & Quality Leadership
  • Follow Draper’s Quality Management System (QMS) and engineering standards.
  • Identify process gaps, propose improvements, and champion best practice adoption.
• Team Leadership & Mentoring
  • Lead small technical teams (≤ 5 members), delegating tasks, tracking progress, and ensuring high quality deliverables.
  • Mentor junior engineers and interns, providing constructive feedback and fostering their growth.
• Strategic Alignment & Business Development
  • Understand how projects support Draper’s overall strategy and specific customer missions.
  • Engage with customers and internal partners to identify new business opportunities.
• Project Management
  • Own assignments, manage scope, schedule, and cost, and communicate status to stakeholders.
  • Identify technical risks, develop mitigation plans, and execute them.
• Professionalism
  • Maintain a respectful, collaborative work environment.
  • Navigate difficult situations with poise and uphold Draper’s professional standards.

• 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…