Senior Systems Engineer — Grid & Systems Design Leader

MISO; Carmel (IN); On-site; USD 131,000 - 156,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k

Vacation

Sick time

Paid time off

Job summary

Senior Systems Engineer at MISO drives cross-functional collaboration to translate business and regulatory needs into clear system-level requirements and designs. You will define verification methods, manage interfaces, and guide critical trade studies to ensure safety, reliability, and performance across the grid operations.

You will mentor junior engineers, maintain baselines, and contribute to readiness decisions while aligning with INCOSE practices and industry standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
• Minimum of 3 years of relevant systems engineering experience across product or system lifecycle activities.
• Strong understanding of requirements development, allocation, decomposition, quality assessment, traceability, and lifecycle management.
• Knowledge of functional and logical design, system modeling, information flows, and interface management in complex technical environments.
• Experience with verification and validation planning, requirement coverage assessment, objective evidence, technical-risk evaluation, and readiness recommendations.
• Ability to facilitate structured trade studies, evaluate alternatives, analyze change impacts, and communicate evidence-based engineering recommendations.
• Strong problem-solving skills, including systems thinking, failure-mode analysis, root-cause analysis, troubleshooting, and resolution of ambiguous or complex technical issues.
• Familiarity with engineering documentation, quality practices, and tools such as IBM DOORS Next, Cameo, etc.
• Certified as a Systems Engineer by INCOSE preferred.

Responsibilities

• Translate business, regulatory, customer, and operational needs into clear, feasible, verifiable, and traceable product requirements and acceptance expectations.
• Establish product context, boundaries, operational scenarios, assumptions, constraints, dependencies, and affected capabilities.
• Develop technology-independent product functional and logical designs that define expected behavior, functions, interactions, information flows, interfaces, and responsibility allocation.
• Define product verification and validation needs, methods, evidence expectations, coverage criteria, and technical-readiness inputs.
• Lead product-level engineering decision analysis and trade studies by documenting alternatives, evaluation criteria, evidence, assumptions, impacts, and technical risks.
• Perform product change and impact analysis across requirements, architecture, interfaces, data, processes, dependencies, verification evidence, and operations.
• Identify and manage product technical risks, failure modes, and quality attributes, including security, reliability, resilience, maintainability, usability, performance, and supportability.
• Maintain product requirements, functional and logical models, interface definitions, traceability, decisions, and other authoritative engineering baselines.
• Assess requirements quality, design alignment, verification coverage, evidence sufficiency, unresolved gaps, and residual technical risk to support accountable readiness decisions.
• Mentor less-experienced engineers and improve engineering methods, tools, standards, templates, training, and reusable practices.

Skills

Systems thinking

Requirements management

Trade studies

Root-cause analysis

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/CE/EE

Tools

IBM DOORS Next

Cameo

Job description

Senior Systems Engineer at MISO drives cross-functional collaboration to translate business and regulatory needs into clear system-level requirements and designs. You will define verification methods, manage interfaces, and guide critical trade studies to ensure safety, reliability, and performance across the grid operations.

You will mentor junior engineers, maintain baselines, and contribute to readiness decisions while aligning with INCOSE practices and industry standards.