V&V Engineer

Requirements Verification & Validation Engineer

Peraton is seeking an experienced Requirements Verification & Validation (V&V) Engineer within our Brand New Air Traffic Control System (BNATCS) Architecture and Systems Engineering group to perform and support V&V activities that demonstrate requirements compliance across a large-scale federal program. As a key contributor on a multi-vendor systems integrator program, you will work alongside the lead systems engineer and broader engineering team to ensure that the integrated system - spanning hardware, software, and system-of-systems components assembled from independently developed vendor, subcontractor, and custom solutions - satisfies the full requirements baseline as a unified whole.

Where the Requirements Traceability & Integration Engineer defines and owns the baseline, this role proves compliance against it - closing every requirement with objective, auditable evidence. You will be part of a team responsible for system-of-systems integration, requirements traceability and integrity across the program, V&V support, and the development of program-wide standards and templates. This is a hands-on senior engineering role - you will be expected to own assigned tasks, operate independently, and produce high-quality V&V artifacts and results.

You will bring both strategic thinking and hands-on engineering judgment to the role - contributing to verification planning, method definition, evidence assessment, and compliance determination. You may also lead V&V activities when the situation calls for it. This position requires full-time, on-site presence in Herndon, VA.

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development and maintenance of the V&V Plan, standards, procedures, and templates - defining methods (test, analysis, inspection, demonstration), success criteria, and verification event mappings across internal teams, subcontractors, and vendors
• Define and apply verification methods and acceptable evidence criteria for requirements in the integrated baseline, assessing each requirement for verifiability before verification planning begins
• Define the multi-tier verification approach - establishing verification standards at component, integration, and system/operational levels, including procedures, negative testing, boundary conditions, and fault injection
• Conduct requirements-based verification coverage analysis to identify gaps, untested requirements, and residual risk; evaluate and formally close verification evidence against requirements and document closure rationale in the VCRM
• Support integration verification events - integration test, system test, regression test, and formal qualification - ensuring procedures are sound, evidence meets compliance standards, and components are verified against the correct requirements
• Plan and support validation activities demonstrating the integrated system meets its intended mission and operational needs; develop operational validation scenarios including mission thread execution and stress cases
• Assess residual risk after verification closure - identifying requirements with marginal evidence, verification uncertainty, or insufficient operational coverage
• Review and assess vendor and subcontractor V&V artifacts - test reports, analysis results, inspection records, and demonstration evidence - for sufficiency, credibility, and compliance; maintain the VCRM linking every requirement to its method, event, responsible party, and closure status
• Generate V&V metrics and reports - verification progress, closure rates, open actions, residual risk, and validation readiness - for program leadership and government stakeholders; ensure closure documentation is audit-ready for FCA/PCA
• Collaborate with the Requirements Traceability & Integration Engineer and broader program team - including test engineers, cybersecurity teams, architects across enterprise, solutions, software, and cloud disciplines, quality assurance, workstream leads, and other program stakeholders - to ensure the full requirements baseline, including enterprise architecture artifacts and all requirement types, is verifiable, traceability supports…