Senior Requirements Engineer- MBSE

Peraton; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 216,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO 25 days

Bonus plan

401(k)

Job summary

Peraton is seeking a Senior Requirements Engineer to join our mission‑critical space and national security programs in Arlington, VA. You will define, refine, and document mission‑planning and component‑level specifications using MBSE models, ensuring clear, verifiable requirements across complex system architectures.

You will collaborate with system integrators, MBSE teams, and architects to drive traceability, verification planning, and robust requirement artifacts, contributing to

Qualifications

• Experience delivering requirements engineering in complex software or system-of-systems environments.
• Ability to derive and decompose requirements from mission needs and MBSE models.
• Experience creating verification methods and acceptance criteria.

Responsibilities

• Provide feedback and refine Mission Planning Specifications with the System Integrator and architecture teams.
• Derive component-level specs from mission-level requirements and MBSE models.
• Ensure requirements are captured, traceable, and aligned with architecture and interfaces.
• Support creation of verification artifacts and acceptance criteria for mission planning and components.
• Collaborate with MBSE practitioners to ensure system behavior matches requirement intent.
• Participate in technical reviews, walkthroughs, and traceability assessments across disciplines.

Skills

Requirements engineering

Systems engineering

MBSE modelling

Traceability

Verification planning

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

BS/BA with 12+ years

MS/MA with 10+ years

PhD with 7+ years

Tools

Requirements management tools

MBSE modelling environments

Job description

Peraton Overview

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Responsibilities

Peraton is delivering advanced mission planning, digital engineering, and command‑and‑control capabilities supporting the U.S. Government’s space communications enterprise. Our team uses modern MBSE practices to translate mission needs into precise, traceable, and verifiable technical requirements across a complex, multi‑system environment.

As a Senior Requirements Engineer, you will collaborate closely with system integrators, architects, and MBSE teams to define, refine, and document mission planning and component-level specifications. You will ensure requirements are clear, consistent, and verifiable while contributing to the creation of authoritative digital engineering artifacts that drive system design and implementation.

What you’ll do:

• Provide feedback, clarification, and refinement of the Mission Planning Specification in coordination with the System Integrator and architecture teams.
• Derive component‑level specifications from mission‑level requirements and from behaviors represented in the MBSE model.
• Ensure requirements are properly captured, traceable, and aligned with system architecture, interfaces, and model behavior.
• Support creation of requirement verification artifacts for all mission planning and component-level requirements, ensuring verifiable acceptance criteria.
• Collaborate with MBSE practitioners to validate that system behavior, interfaces, and architectures accurately reflect requirement intent.
• Participate in technical reviews, requirement walkthroughs, and traceability assessments across engineering disciplines.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum of 12 years with BS/BA; Minimum of 10 years with MS/MA; Minimum of 7 years with Ph.D. Additional four (4) years of relevant experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.
• This position requires the candidate possess a minimum of Secret clearance with ability to upgrade to TS/SCI. The candidate must maintain the clearance
• Experience performing requirements engineering or systems engineering in a complex software or system-of-systems environment.
• Ability to derive, decompose, and document system and component requirements based on mission needs, architecture definitions, or MBSE models.
• Experience reviewing or developing system specifications, interface definitions, or digital engineering artifacts.
• Knowledge of requirements management tools or MBSE modeling environments used to capture requirement behavior, architecture, or traceability.
• Experience supporting verification planning, including creation of requirement verification methods, acceptance criteria, or verification artifacts.
• Ability to interpret system models, behavior diagrams, and architecture views to ensure alignment between requirements and system representation.

Desired Qualifications:

• Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate across engineering, architecture, and integration teams.
• Ability to analyze complex requirements and support disciplined configuration control and traceability.
• Strong organizational and problem‑solving skills with the ability to prioritize work in a multi‑disciplinary environment.

Benefits:

• Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees working on this critical National Security program, which include heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for you and your dependents, 25 days of PTO accrued annually up to a generous PTO cap and eligible to participatein an attractive bonus plan

Target Salary Range

$135,000 - $216,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual’s experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

Benefits Statement

• medical
• dental
• vision
• life
• health savings account
• short/long term disability
• EAP
• parental leave
• 401(k)
• paid time off (PTO) for vacation
• company paid holidays

A full listing of available benefits can be viewed athttps://www.careers.peraton.com/benefits.

EEO

EEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.