Engineer Aeronautical 2

Game 7 Staffing; Elkton (MD); On-site; USD 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Game 7 Staffing seeks a Systems Engineer for an onsite contract role in Maryland. You will support propulsion system development, lead requirements activities, and coordinate across engineering, management, and external stakeholders.

You will shape verification plans, manage risk, and drive V&V plans mapping requirements to tests, while collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams and ensuring traceability from needs to design and test.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field.
• Experience on programs involving requirements, design, integration, or test.
• Ability to write clear, testable requirements and maintain baselines.
• Experience establishing traceability from stakeholder needs to test.
• Experience leading SRR, PDR, CDR or equivalent design reviews.
• Experience running formal Risk Review Boards.
• Knowledge of MBSE or SysML and tools (Cameo/MagicDraw/Rhapsody).
• Experience with DOORS/Jama/JIRA or similar requirements tool.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and coordination between engineering disciplines, program management, and external stakeholders.
• Produce and maintain requirements specifications, ICDs, V&V matrices, risk registers, and verification technical reports.
• Define and maintain a requirements decomposition strategy across subsystems and disciplines.
• Perform requirements change impact analysis based on CCNs and design configurations.
• Lead requirements reviews and PDR/CDR-level artifacts for completeness, consistency, feasibility, and testability.
• Lead Risk and Opportunity meetings for technical and programmatic teams.
• Develop verification plans mapping each requirement to verification methods and responsible owners.
• Support creation of WBS and technical schedules based on systems engineering activities.

Skills

Problem-solving

Analytical skills

Written and verbal communication

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Documentation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related STEM

Tools

DOORS/Jama/JIRA

MBSE tools (Cameo/MagicDraw/Rhapsody)

Teamcenter PLM

Job description

Title: Systems Engineer Location: Onsite; telecommute and teleworking are not available Contract: Through the end of 2026, with expected continuation into 2027 pending milestone success Security / clearance: No clearance Employment type: Contract End product:

• Support development of a propulsion system through Critical Design Review (CDR). Tech / domain environment:
• Support two programs and the lead systems engineer, with the ability to assume the lead systems engineer role as needed.
• Work within the Propulsion Systems and Controls Business Unit.
• Work 1st Shift (9/80A), 8am-5pm.
• No travel. Job duties:
• Provide technical leadership and coordination between engineering disciplines, program management, and external stakeholders.
• Produce and maintain requirements specifications, ICDs, V&V matrices, risk registers, and verification technical reports.
• Define and maintain a requirements decomposition strategy across subsystems and disciplines.
• Perform requirements change impact analysis based on CCN’s and design configurations.
• Lead requirements reviews and PDR/CDR-level artifacts for completeness, consistency, feasibility, and testability.
• Lead Risk and Opportunity meetings for technical and programmatic teams.
• Develop verification plans mapping each requirement to verification methods and responsible owners.
• Support creation of WBS and technical schedules based on systems engineering activities. Must haves:
• Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related STEM discipline.
• Systems engineering experience on technical programs involving requirements, design, integration, or test.
• Experience developing and managing requirements, including writing clear, testable requirements and maintaining a requirements baseline.
• Experience establishing and maintaining requirements traceability between stakeholder needs, system requirements, lower-level requirements, design, and test.
• Experience supporting or leading SRR, PDR, CDR, or equivalent design/requirements reviews.
• Experience running formal Risk Review Boards.
• Experience developing or contributing to V&V plans that map requirements to test, analysis, inspection, or demonstration.
• Experience performing requirements change impact analysis.
• Ability to work across multidisciplinary engineering teams to resolve requirements and design issues.
• Experience with at least one requirements management tool, such as DOORS, Jama, JIRA, or similar.
• Problem-solving and analytical skills, including identifying risks/issues and proposing mitigations.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for documenting technical information and presenting to stakeholders. Nice to haves:
• Experience on U.S. Air Force, Navy, strategic deterrence, or related weapon system programs.
• Hands-on manufacturing experience.
• Familiarity with the DoD Contracting process.
• Experience re-designing to legacy system standards and requirements.
• Experience with solid rocket motors, propulsion systems, or related energetic systems, including performance, environments, or testing methods.
• Experience developing and executing subsystem-level V&V plans, including test requirements, test procedures, data review, and FMEAs.
• Familiarity with MBSE and SysML using Cameo/MagicDraw, Rhapsody, or similar tools, and integrating models with requirements such as DOORS.
• Experience with Siemens Teamcenter or similar PLM/configuration management tools.
• Experience coordinating and developing CDRLs and other contract deliverables.