Requirements Engineer, Systems Engineer
Listed on 2026-10-01
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Engineering
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 MTS 1 Requirements Engineer will join the Digital Retrieval, Engineering, Architecture, and Management (DREAM) Group to support the definition, analysis, and documentation of system level requirements for multi domain national security programs. Working under senior engineers, the incumbent will apply basic technical knowledge to well defined problems, develop a solid foundation in model driven engineering, and grow technical breadth through continuous learning.
KeyCapability Areas
- Technical Depth & Breadth:
Applies basic technical knowledge to well defined tasks and actively learns new tools or domains. - Best Practice & QMS Adherence:
Follows Draper’s established processes and quality standards. - Growth Mindset:
Pursues formal and informal learning to deepen technical expertise. - Problem Definition & Execution:
Understands task level requirements, independently solves scoped problems, and conducts basic research when needed. - Resource Utilization:
Seeks help and leverages available resources; collaborates across teams. - Strategic Awareness:
Familiar with Draper’s strategy, shows interest in customer missions, and contributes to proposals when asked. - Process Improvement:
Identifies and communicates task level inefficiencies to leadership. - Project Management & Teamwork:
Executes assignments on schedule, reports issues promptly, and holds self-accountable as an active team member. - Professionalism & Mentoring:
Maintains a respectful work environment and receives constructive feedback positively.
- Assist in gathering and documenting functional and non functional requirements from stakeholders.
- Translate high level mission objectives into clear, verifiable task level requirements.
- Contribute to requirement traceability matrices under senior guidance.
- Gain hands on experience with SysML tools (e.g., Magic Draw) to create simple requirement models.
- Participate in trade space exploration (TSE) activities to evaluate alternatives.
- Support development of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) components and cross domain data workflows.
- Write basic Python scripts for requirement analysis or data automation.
- Follow Draper’s QMS and established best practice guidelines; suggest improvements when appropriate.
- Work closely with lead engineers, cross functional teammates (systems, ML, data science), and external partners.
- Produce concise technical notes, meeting minutes, and status updates.
- Attend internal training, webinars, and conferences to broaden technical skill set.
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…
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