Senior Subsea Robotics Software Requirements Lead

Job Description

The Software Requirements Systems Engineer supports the development, integration, and delivery of advanced subsea robotic systems for U.S. Department of Defense programs. This role focuses on defining, analyzing, validating, and managing software requirements across the full engineering lifecycle. The engineer collaborates closely with multidisciplinary team – including systems, software, hardware, controls, and test engineering – to ensure that mission‑critical subsea robotic capabilities meet operational, environmental, and cybersecurity requirements.

The ideal candidate combines strong systems engineering discipline with experience in developing software for complex autonomous or robotic platforms operating in maritime domains.

Job Description

The Software Requirements Systems Engineer supports the development, integration, and delivery of advanced subsea robotic systems for U.S. Department of Defense programs. This role focuses on defining, analyzing, validating, and managing software requirements across the full engineering lifecycle. The engineer collaborates closely with multidisciplinary team – including systems, software, hardware, controls, and test engineering – to ensure that mission‑critical subsea robotic capabilities meet operational, environmental, and cybersecurity requirements.

The ideal candidate combines strong systems engineering discipline with experience in developing software for complex autonomous or robotic platforms operating in maritime domains.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development, decomposition, and management of software requirements derived from system‑level requirements, CONOPS, stakeholder inputs, and DoD program needs.
• Conduct requirements analysis, traceability, allocation, and verification planning using industry‑standard tools (e.g., DOORS Next, Jama Connect, Cameo, CRADLE).
• Collaborate with software engineering teams to ensure requirements are implementable, testable, and aligned with architectural, interface, and design constraints.
• Develop and maintain system and software interface control documents (ICDs), data models, and message definitions for subsea robotic systems.
• Support the definition of behavior models, use cases, and functional architectures for autonomous underwater systems.
• Participate in technical reviews, including SRR, SFR, PDR, CDR, and TRR, providing artifacts and technical justification.
• Work closely with systems integration and test teams to define verification and validation strategies for challenging undersea environments.
• Ensure requirements and system behaviors comply with DoD cybersecurity, safety, and program‑specific standards.
• Perform impact analyses for requirement changes and support configuration management activities.
• Interface with customers, program management, and cross‑functional engineering organizations to communicate requirements status, risks, and technical decisions.

• Works with program leadership to ensure that systems engineering tasks, specifically those affecting software requirements engineering products, are completed in a timely manner, including tasking engineering personnel to complete analyses, trade studies, tests, etc.

• Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, Mechanical/Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of experience in systems engineering or software requirements engineering within aerospace, defense, robotics, or autonomous systems.
• Strong proficiency in requirements management tools (e.g., CRADLE, DOORS Next, Jama-Connect, Cameo).
• Demonstrated experience developing software requirements for complex, safety‑critical, or autonomous systems.
• Ability to interpret system specifications, architectural models, and interface definitions.
• Understanding of systems engineering processes (INCOSE SE Handbook, NASA Systems Engineering Handbook, Naval Systems Engineering Guide, or similar).
• Experience supporting verification and validation planning for multi‑domain systems.
• Assist with risk identification, mitigation planning, and configuration control activities related to system…