Systems Engineer

Eligibility

Must be a US Citizen with a Secret or higher security clearance.

This role will be performed on-site in Huntsville, AL.

Summit TRC is seeking a Systems Engineer to support a UAS program or record. The role emphasizes systems engineering fundamentals, deriving and decomposing requirements, and executing the Systems Engineering V from concept through verification for unmanned aerial systems.

• Derive, decompose, and allocate system and subsystem requirements for unmanned aerial systems (UAS) from higher-level customer and stakeholder needs
• Author, refine, and maintain requirements ensuring clarity, testability, and bidirectional traceability throughout the Systems Engineering V
• Support requirements verification and validation activities, ensuring alignment between requirements, design, and test artifacts
• Interface with government customers, program management, and cross-functional engineering teams to clarify, negotiate, and baseline requirements
• Develop and maintain requirements traceability matrices and supporting technical documentation
• Participate in technical reviews (e.g., SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR), providing systems engineering rigor and requirements insight
• Support configuration management of requirements baselines and manage changes through established control processes
• Contribute to risk identification and mitigation planning from a systems engineering perspective
• (Bonus) Support safety and software safety analysis activities, including hazard identification and safety case documentation
• (Bonus) Apply Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) principles, using tools such as Cameo, to support requirements and architecture development

• Bachelor's Degree
• Active Secret security clearance
• 3-15 years of experience in requirements derivation, decomposition, and management on a program of record, ideally supporting UAS or other unmanned/autonomous systems
• Strong working knowledge of the Systems Engineering V and systems engineering lifecycle processes
• Excellent technical writing skills with experience authoring clear, testable, well-structured requirements
• Experience supporting technical reviews and interfacing directly with government customers
• Self-directed with strong attention to detail and established project methodology
• Preferred: experience with safety engineering or software safety analysis
• Preferred: familiarity with MBSE methodologies and tools, particularly Cameo/Magic Draw

Summit TRC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local laws.

We comply with all applicable laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company operates.

Summit TRC is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process due to a disability, please email  or call  Ext. 3 to request assistance. Determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made on a case‑by‑case basis in accordance with applicable law.