Senior Aerospace Systems Requirements Engineer

Draper Labs; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 82,300 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Draper is seeking a System Requirements Engineer to define, analyze, and verify system requirements within MBSE or digital engineering frameworks. You will shape the overall design, develop use cases/CONOPS, and manage requirements through product life cycle.

Responsibilities include coordinating assessments, translating mission needs into system requirements, and leading small teams while mentoring engineers. US government security clearance is required for this role.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, physics, mathematics, or related field.
• 5–10 years of systems engineering experience with emphasis on requirements engineering.
• Experience with MBSE and/or digital engineering tools.
• Excellent requirements writing and management skills.
• Aerospace and spaceflight domain knowledge is a plus.
• Ability to mentor junior engineers.

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

System engineering

Communication skills

MBSE/DE methods

Modeling/simulation tools

SysML/STPA/DOORS

GN&C/avionics knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Magic Draw

Cameo

MATLAB/Simulink

DOORS

Job description

Draper is seeking a System Requirements Engineer to define, analyze, and verify system requirements within MBSE or digital engineering frameworks. You will shape the overall design, develop use cases/CONOPS, and manage requirements through product life cycle.

Responsibilities include coordinating assessments, translating mission needs into system requirements, and leading small teams while mentoring engineers. US government security clearance is required for this role.