Systems Engineer, Requirements & Interfaces Job Details | sesengin

Summary

SES Space & Defense delivers secure, resilient connectivity and integrated space solutions for government and national security customers. The Systems Engineer – Requirements & Interfaces supports a Government space and satellite communications program by developing and managing requirements, defining and controlling interfaces, planning verification, and maintaining the technical baseline across multidisciplinary engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Support the development, decomposition, allocation, and management of system, subsystem, interface, and verification requirements
• Maintain end-to-end requirements traceability using the program requirements management environment
• Support Verification Cross-Reference Matrix (VCRM) development and maintenance, including verification methods, approaches, success criteria, and associated verification artifacts
• Develop, coordinate, and maintain Interface Control Documents (ICDs), Interface Requirements Documents (IRDs), and associated interface requirements between systems, segments, subsystems, external systems, and suppliers
• Support interface definition and resolution across engineering teams, suppliers, and program stakeholders to maintain consistency between requirements, architecture, design, and implementation
• Identify interface gaps, conflicts, and inconsistencies and coordinate with responsible engineering organizations to drive issues to resolution
• Support development and maintenance of test plans, test procedures, test reports, verification matrices, compliance documentation, and other verification and validation artifacts
• Assist engineering teams in defining objective evidence necessary to demonstrate requirement compliance and verification closure
• Support requirements verification and validation activities throughout the program lifecycle, including identification and resolution of requirements gaps, inconsistencies, and traceability issues
• Collaborate across space, ground, software, network, cybersecurity, integration and test, mission operations, and other engineering organizations to ensure alignment of requirements and interfaces with the approved system technical baseline
• Support Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) activities and maintain consistency between system models, requirements, interfaces, and verification artifacts
• Support preparation of systems engineering products associated with technical reviews and program milestones, including SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, and other formal technical reviews
• Participate in technical interchange meetings, requirements working groups, interface working groups, and engineering reviews
• Support configuration and change-management activities affecting requirements, interfaces, verification artifacts, and the system technical baseline
• Assist in assessing proposed requirement and interface changes to identify potential impacts to system architecture, design, verification, integration, schedule, and affected engineering organizations
• Independently execute assigned systems engineering activities and coordinate requirements, interface, and verification actions through closure
• Ensure assigned systems engineering products are complete, consistent, traceable, configuration-controlled, and suitable for program and Government review

Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent relevant engineering experience
• 3–5 years of relevant systems engineering experience supporting aerospace, defense, satellite communications, space systems, or similarly complex technical systems
• Working knowledge of systems engineering lifecycle processes, including requirements development, decomposition, allocation, traceability, verification, validation, and interface management
• Experience developing, analyzing, or maintaining system, subsystem, or interface requirements
• Experience with requirements management and traceability tools such as CodeBeamer, DOORS, Jama, or equivalent
• Experience developing, reviewing, or maintaining Interface Control Documents (ICDs), Interface Requirements Documents (IRDs), or comparable technical interface documentation
• Experience supporting verification planning or development of verification matrices, test plans, test procedures, test reports, or equivalent verification artifacts
• Understanding of requirements verification methods, including analysis, inspection, demonstration, and test
• Ability to coordinate technical requirements and interface activities across multidisciplinary engineering organizations
• Strong technical writing and engineering documentation skills
• Ability to communicate technical issues clearly to engineering teams, program management, suppliers, and Government stakeholders
• Strong systems thinking with the ability to understand relationships between requirements, interfaces, architecture, design, integration, and verification
• Strong attention to technical detail and requirements traceability
• Ability to independently execute assigned engineering activities while collaborating with senior engineers and technical subject matter experts
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to identify inconsistencies between requirements, interfaces, system models, design documentation, and verification artifacts
• Comfortable working in a multidisciplinary engineering environment involving hardware, software, RF, networks, cybersecurity, and operations
• Ability to balance multiple concurrent engineering activities and program priorities
• Strong collaboration and communication skills
• Willingness to learn new systems, technologies, engineering processes, and tools as program needs evolve
• Experience supporting satellite, spacecraft, SATCOM, ground systems, or other space-based systems preferred
• Experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), SysML, or systems modeling tools such as Cameo Systems Modeler preferred
• Experience using CodeBeamer, DOORS, Jama, or similar tools for requirements management, traceability, and verification preferred
• Experience developing or maintaining a Verification Cross-Reference Matrix (VCRM) or equivalent requirements verification database preferred
• Experience supporting Government space or Department of Defense programs preferred
• Experience developing or coordinating ICDs or interface requirements between complex hardware and software systems preferred
• Familiarity with spacecraft, payload, ground systems, command and control, software, network, or other complex system interfaces preferred
• Experience supporting formal technical reviews such as SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, and verification or acceptance reviews preferred
• Familiarity with configuration management, change control, and technical baseline management preferred
• Experience working with geographically distributed engineering teams, subcontractors, suppliers, or Government customers preferred

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent relevant engineering experience
• 3–5 years of relevant systems engineering experience supporting aerospace, defense, satellite communications, space systems, or similarly complex technical systems
• Working knowledge of systems engineering lifecycle processes, including requirements development, decomposition, allocation, traceability, verification, validation, and interface management
• Experience developing, analyzing, or maintaining system, subsystem, or interface requirements
• Experience with requirements management and traceability tools such as CodeBeamer, DOORS, Jama, or equivalent
• Experience developing, reviewing, or maintaining Interface Control Documents (ICDs), Interface Requirements Documents (IRDs), or comparable technical interface documentation
• Experience supporting verification planning or development of verification matrices, test plans, test procedures, test reports, or equivalent verification artifacts
• Understanding of requirements verification methods, including analysis, inspection, demonstration, and test
• Ability to coordinate technical requirements and interface activities across multidisciplinary engineering organizations
• Strong technical writing and engineering documentation skills
• Ability to communicate technical issues clearly to engineering teams, program management, suppliers, and Government stakeholders
• Strong systems thinking with the ability to understand relationships between requirements, interfaces, architecture, design, integration, and verification
• Strong attention to technical detail and requirements traceability
• Ability to independently execute assigned engineering activities while collaborating with senior engineers and technical subject matter experts
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to identify inconsistencies between requirements, interfaces, system models, design documentation, and verification artifacts
• Comfortable working in a multidisciplinary engineering environment involving hardware, software, RF, networks, cybersecurity, and operations
• Ability to balance multiple concurrent engineering activities and program priorities
• Strong collaboration and communication skills
• Willingness to learn new systems, technologies, engineering processes, and tools as program needs evolve

Nice to Haves

• Experience supporting satellite, spacecraft, SATCOM, ground systems, or other space-based systems preferred
• Experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), SysML, or systems modeling tools such as Cameo Systems Modeler preferred
• Experience using CodeBeamer, DOORS, Jama, or similar tools for requirements management, traceability, and verification preferred
• Experience developing or maintaining a Verification Cross-Reference Matrix (VCRM) or equivalent requirements verification database preferred
• Experience supporting Government space or Department of Defense programs preferred
• Experience developing or coordinating ICDs or interface requirements between complex hardware and software systems preferred
• Familiarity with spacecraft, payload, ground systems, command and control, software, network, or other complex system interfaces preferred
• Experience supporting formal technical reviews such as SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, and verification or acceptance reviews preferred
• Familiarity with configuration management, change control, and technical baseline management preferred
• Experience working with geographically distributed engineering teams, subcontractors, suppliers, or Government customers preferred

Benefits

• Where applicable, this position may also be eligible for an annual bonus.
• Paid vacation, sick and personal leave
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
• A 401(k)-retirement plan