Senior Open Systems Engineer - Mission-Critical

Collins Aerospace; Cedar Rapids (IA); On-site; USD 87,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401(k) plan

Tuition reimbursement

Student loan repayment

Life insurance

Disability coverage

Relocation assistance

Employee assistance program

Wellness program

Teladoc medical

Job summary

Collins Aerospace, an RTX company, seeks a Senior Systems Engineer in Cedar Rapids to advance Open System Architecture products. You will drive requirements, interface definitions, and model system behavior across hardware and software teams.

You will contribute to verification planning, risk analysis, and trade studies while collaborating with cross-functional groups in a fast-paced environment. Some travel is required.

Qualifications

• Experience with systems engineering processes including requirements capture, decomposition, interface definition, integration, and verification/validation.
• Experience with systems engineering tools, modeling techniques, or requirements management environments.
• Active and transferable Secret U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date.
• U.S. citizenship required (dual citizenship not permitted) for access to information.
• Typically requires a STEM degree and minimum 5 years of relevant experience or an advanced degree with minimum 3 years of experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage system requirements, including traceability, decomposition, and interface definitions.
• Support system architecture development and participate in design reviews.
• Assist with modeling, analysis, and documentation of system behavior and performance.
• Contribute to verification planning, testability assessments, and requirement coverage analysis.
• Collaborate with software, hardware, and specialty engineering teams to ensure system level alignment.
• Analyze technical issues, participate in problem investigations, and support trade studies.
• Document system behaviors, requirements compliance, risks, and decision outcomes for leadership.
• Support customer discussions, internal reviews, and engineering demonstrations as needed.
• Contribute to improvements in systems engineering processes, tools, and workflows.
• Travel 10%.

Skills

System requirements

Decomposition

Interface definition

Requirements management

Modeling techniques

Traceability

Verification/validation

Cross-functional collaboration

Security clearance

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

SysML

Cameo

Rhapsody

Job description

Collins Aerospace, an RTX company, seeks a Senior Systems Engineer in Cedar Rapids to advance Open System Architecture products. You will drive requirements, interface definitions, and model system behavior across hardware and software teams.

You will contribute to verification planning, risk analysis, and trade studies while collaborating with cross-functional groups in a fast-paced environment. Some travel is required.