Hybrid Software & Systems Engineer: Requirements, V&V

Quantinuum; Broomfield (CO); Hybrid; USD 132,000 - 178,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Equity opportunities

Paid holidays

Parental leave

Employee discounts

Job summary

Quantinuum in Broomfield, CO seeks a Software-Focused Systems Engineer to translate stakeholder needs into verifiable requirements and guide software-intensive systems from concept through integration, operation, and validation.

This role combines requirements engineering, system modeling, interface definition, troubleshooting, risk management, V&V support, and limited software development, with a hybrid schedule allowing up to 2 remote days per week.

Qualifications

• Minimum a bachelor’s degree.
• Minimum 8+ years of combined software engineering and systems engineering experience with demonstrated responsibility in both disciplines.
• Minimum 3+ years of experience developing requirements, system models, interfaces, and verification criteria.

Responsibilities

• Translate stakeholder needs into clear, testable system and software requirements with end-to-end traceability.
• Develop functional flows, block definition diagrams, behavioral models, system architectures, and Interface Control Documents.
• Allocate requirements across software, hardware, users, and external systems.
• Assist troubleshooting by reproducing failures, analyzing logs and system behavior, isolating causes across subsystem boundaries, and recommending corrective actions.
• Perform change-impact analysis across requirements, architecture, interfaces, implementation, risks, and verification.
• Advise V&V teams on acceptance criteria, test coverage, failure scenarios, and expected system behavior.
• Lead or support FMEAs, define mitigations, assess residual risk, and ensure mitigations are implemented and verified.
• Support design, integration, technical reviews, defect investigations, and release-readiness decisions.
• Develop prototypes, simulations, test tools, or production software when needed to reduce technical risk or support delivery.
• Provide technical leadership and mentor junior software developers and systems engineers through design guidance, artifact and code reviews, troubleshooting support, and knowledge sharing.
• Promote consistent engineering practices for requirements, system modeling, software design, verification, risk management, and technical decision documentation.

Skills

Requirements engineering

System modeling

Interface definition

Troubleshooting

Risk management

V&V guidance

Mentoring

Engineering best practices

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

GitHub

CI/CD

Robot Framework

Cypress

JFrog Artifactory

Job description

Quantinuum in Broomfield, CO seeks a Software-Focused Systems Engineer to translate stakeholder needs into verifiable requirements and guide software-intensive systems from concept through integration, operation, and validation.

This role combines requirements engineering, system modeling, interface definition, troubleshooting, risk management, V&V support, and limited software development, with a hybrid schedule allowing up to 2 remote days per week.