Requirements & Concepts Engineer

Draper Labs; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 75,000 - 156,000; Full time

Job summary

Draper is a nonprofit R&D organization headquartered in Cambridge, MA. We seek a Requirements & Concepts Engineer to develop system concepts, MBSE architectures, and MBSE-driven requirements for diverse mission domains, including defense, space, and autonomous vehicles.

The role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration, customer engagement, and development of architecture, simulation, HWIL, and test environments for concept proofing and deployment.

Qualifications

• Requires a bachelor's degree in engineering, physics, mathematics, or related field.
• 3–5 years experience in systems engineering with emphasis in requirements engineering.
• Masters degree preferred.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Security Clearance.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate, schedule and participate in the requirements assessments.
• Assist 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.
• Support analyses and allocation of requirements.
• Assist in capturing and translating mission/customer requirements into system requirements.

Skills

MBSE

Digital engineering

Modeling & simulation

SysML

Programming languages

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

MagicDraw

DOORs

MATLAB/Simulink

Python

Job description

Overview:

Draper is an independent, nonprofit research and development company headquartered in Cambridge, MA. The 2,000+ 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 www.draper.com.

Job Description Summary:

The Digital Engineering and Integrated Capabilities group at Draper is seeking a Requirements & Concepts Engineer to work within multidisciplinary teams to develop system concepts, system test concepts, requirements & architecture for mission domains such as: strategic defense systems, hypersonic and space systems, precision guided munitions, and autonomous air/sea vehicles.

• System Requirements & Concepts Engineer will support design concepts through the use of novel engineering approaches to drive new system development, upgrades and enhancements to future and deployed systems.
• Employ novel digital engineering techniques to develop and manage system requirements in a digital ecosystem of system requirements and design artifacts
• Employ Model Based Systems Engineering approaches to support systems development from concept, identification of mission and user needs, generation of use cases, system architecture and requirements.
• Support concept development through the system lifecycle with a focus on developing architecture, simulation and HWIL, and environmental test platforms for proof of concept, design development and prototyping with a path to system production and deployment.
• Key job elements include the ability to engage with customers, cross functional teams and external partners to development and manage requirements and interface designs for; highly accurate strategic sensors, inertial navigation systems, fault tolerant computing, enhanced ground testing, integration and test environments, engineering qualification, factory acceptance test and deploy system surveillance and upgrades

The ideal candidate will work as part of an interdisciplinary team. The candidate will have the ability to become knowledgeable in various problem domains, identify relevant modeling and analysis techniques, develop or integrate multi-domain models of required fidelity, present results that support system-level analysis, performance trade-offs, and decision-making.

The ability to communicate technical concepts effectively with customers, engineers, managers, and other stakeholders of all relevant disciplines is a must.

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.
• Help define and execute system engineering lifecycle assignments and analysis approaches for a particular problem and independently execute assignments
• Contribute high quality content for technical reports and presentations with minimal guidance
• Proactively identify needs and concerns associated with design decisions and communicate them to project leadership

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 bachelor's degree in engineering, physics, mathematics, or related field. Masters degree preferred.

Experience

3-5 years experience in systems engineering with emphasis in requirements engineering.

Additional Job Description:

Desired Skills & Abilities:

• Requirements and Design Compliance
  • Requirements Verification Traceability, System/Product Compliance Plans and Reporting
  • System Verification Development, Management and Execution
• 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
• Knowledge and interest in interdisciplinary work spanning Systems Engineering, Modeling and Simulation, Trade Space Exploration (TSE), Machine Learning and Data Engineering
• Experience one or more tools such as MagicDraw, DOORs, MATLAB/Simulink, Python
• Experience in integrating descriptive modeling tools with other simulation tools is a plus.
• A self-motivated individual with a can-do attitude that can bring structure to highly complex and ambiguously defined problems
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Security Clearance

Preferred Characteristics

• Ability to support on-site consistently is required.
• Prior experience in technical leadership, stakeholder engagement and management

Applicants selected for this position will be required to obtain and maintain a government security clearance.

Job Location

Cambridge

Massachusetts

02139-3563

Salary

$75,000.00 - $156,000.00

Benefits

Our work is very important to us, but so is our life outside of work. Draper supports many programs to improve work-life balance including workplace flexibility, employee clubs ranging from photography to yoga, health and finance workshops, off site social events and discounts to local museums and cultural activities. If this specific job opportunity and the chance to work at a nationally renowned R&D innovation company appeals to you,

EEO Statement

Draper is committed to creating an inclusive environment. We understand the value of inclusivity and its impact on a high-performance culture. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information. Draper is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. To request reasonable accommodation, please contact [e-mail].