Senior Product Development Systems Engineer

Overview:

Draper is an independent nonprofit research and development company headquartered in Cambridge MA. The 2000 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. For more information about Draper visit .

Job Description Summary:

Job Description:

Duties/Responsibilities
Coordinate schedule and 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 requirements/needs into systems/capability requirements and solutions.
Lead assessment effort in conducting both formal and informal evaluations and analysis.
Analyze assessment results and make improvement/change recommendations.
Ensure assessment results and recommendations can be incorporated into the requirements documentation.
Drive solutions to complex problems with limited direction contribute to task planning and test development propose ways forward and adapt appropriately to changes in program requirements
Lead small teams. Seeks to align team towards program goals and builds trust within the team.
Provide insight and suggest design modifications based on analysis outcomes and to apply analysis techniques across a range of technical challenges.
Identify program/system-level technical risks and develop and execute mitigation strategies.
Actively mentor less experienced engineers and provide thoughtful constructive feedback.

Skills/Abilities
Highly-organized capable of approaching problems with a system-level perspective
Strong oral and written communication skills
Practical experience with the systems engineering process
Familiarity with model-based systems engineering (MBSE) and/or digital engineering (DE) tools/methods
Roles may require proficiency with modeling/simulation computer coding languages SysML STPA DOORs and/or other engineering analysis tools
Knowledge of GN&C avionics architectures fault tolerance cyber/security comms/encryption or other technologies may be required as defined in the summary.

Education
Requires a bachelors degree in engineering physics mathematics or related field. Masters degree preferred.

Experience
5-10 years experience in systems engineering with emphasis in requirements engineering.

Additional Job Description:

Required Skills & Abilities

• Requirements Development Implementation and Management
  • Requirement Solicitation including Stakeholder Needs Measures of Performance and Use Case Analysis
  • Experience with INCOSE Requirement Standards
  • Requirements Analysis (Traceability Decomposition Architecture)
  • Interface Development and Management
    • Familiarity with interface standards and interface coordination documentation: e.g. OSI Framework DoDAF SysML Deterministic Commination Interface Coordination documentation Development Management of Interface Signal and Message database or interface products
• Requirements and Design Compliance
  • Requirements Verification Traceability System/Product Compliance Plans and Reporting
  • System Verification Development Management and Execution
• DOORS Classic/DOORS Next Gen - Proficiency with DOORS Classic and experience with DXL is a plus

Desired Skills & Abilities:

• System Architecture - Use Cases Functional Decomposition Interfaces State Machines Sequence Diagrams
• Cameo Magic Draw Data Hub
  • Strong ability to review and navigate SysML products and fundamental abilities to perform architecture and requirement analysis
  • SysML Architecture & Design is a plus

Applicants selected for this position will be required to obtain and maintain a government security clearance. An active Secret Clearance is REQUIRED.

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