Senior Systems Engineer - Translate Needs into Impact

MIDCONTINENT INDEPENDENT SYSTEM; Carmel (IN); On-site; USD 131,000 - 156,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k plan

Vacation and sick time

Health insurance

Job summary

MIDCONTINENT INDEPENDENT SYSTEMS is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to translate business and regulatory needs into clear requirements and verification plans. You will define product context, interfaces, and acceptance criteria while guiding cross‑functional teams through lifecycle activities.

The role emphasizes trade studies, risk management, and structured analysis to ensure readiness and quality across systems. Eligible for annual bonus and strong benefits.

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.

Responsibilities

• Translate business, regulatory, customer, and operational needs into clear, feasible, verifiable 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, interfaces, and information flows.
• Define product verification and validation needs, methods, evidence expectations, coverage criteria, and readiness inputs.
• Lead product‑level engineering decision analysis and trade studies with documented alternatives and evidence.

Skills

Systems thinking

Requirements development

Trade studies

V&V planning

Problem solving

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/EE

Tools

IBM DOORS Next

Cameo

Job description

MIDCONTINENT INDEPENDENT SYSTEMS is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to translate business and regulatory needs into clear requirements and verification plans. You will define product context, interfaces, and acceptance criteria while guiding cross‑functional teams through lifecycle activities.

The role emphasizes trade studies, risk management, and structured analysis to ensure readiness and quality across systems. Eligible for annual bonus and strong benefits.