Senior Systems Engineer – Propulsion Systems

Location: Elkton, MD 21921
Pay Rate: $65.00 - $75.00
Schedule: Monday‑Friday, First Shift | 9/80 Schedule | 8:00 AM–5:00 PM
Job Type: Full-Time | Contract
On‑Site: Yes | Telework is not available
Travel: None
Clearance: Not required
- US Citizenship required due to Government regulations!*

PDS Tech Commercial is partnering with a leader in the aviation industry to hire an accomplished Systems Engineer in Elkton, Maryland.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced systems engineering professional to make an immediate impact on the development of sophisticated propulsion systems and controls
. You’ll support programs progressing through Critical Design Review (CDR), working across engineering disciplines to ensure requirements, designs, verification strategies, risks, and technical deliverables come together as one integrated solution.

You’ll work closely with the Lead Systems Engineer across two programs and have the opportunity to step into a technical leadership role when needed
.

In this highly collaborative role, you’ll apply systems thinking to plan, coordinate, and execute critical technical activities throughout the development lifecycle.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Provide technical leadership and coordination among engineering disciplines, program management, and external stakeholders.
• Support the Lead Systems Engineer and assume lead responsibilities when required.
• Develop and maintain key systems engineering artifacts, including requirements specifications, Interface Control Documents (ICDs), V&V matrices, risk registers, and verification technical reports
  .
• Define and maintain requirements decomposition strategies across systems, subsystems, and engineering disciplines.
• Perform requirements change-impact analysis based on contract change notices and evolving design configurations.
• Lead requirements and technical reviews supporting PDR and CDR-level milestones
  , ensuring requirements are complete, consistent, feasible, and testable.
• Lead Risk and Opportunity meetings on behalf of technical and program teams.
• Develop comprehensive verification strategies that map requirements to verification methods, including test, analysis, inspection, and demonstration
  .
• Assign and coordinate verification responsibilities across appropriate technical owners.
• Support development of the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and technical schedules based on systems engineering activities.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to identify and resolve requirements, integration, and design challenges.
• Communicate complex technical information clearly to engineering teams, program leadership, and other stakeholders.
• Build consensus across teams while developing strong working relationships throughout the organization.

We’re looking for an engineer with a strong systems perspective and demonstrated experience supporting complex technical programs.

Candidates should have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related STEM discipline
  .
• Professional experience performing systems engineering activities involving requirements, design, integration, or testing.
• Experience developing and managing clear, measurable, and testable requirements while maintaining a controlled requirements baseline.
• Experience establishing and maintaining requirements traceability from stakeholder needs through system and lower-level requirements, design, and testing.
• Experience supporting or leading formal technical reviews such as SRR, PDR, CDR
  , or equivalent design and requirements reviews.
• Experience running formal Risk…