Systems Engineer

Oceaneering; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Oceaneering is seeking a Systems Engineer to provide hands-on engineering leadership across multidisciplinary programs. The role starts with new product development, defining stakeholder needs, architecture, interfaces, and verification planning, then expands to project execution and asset management.

The successful candidate will independently lead priority work, build reusable systems engineering capability, and mentor teams while coordinating with stakeholders and technical owners across

Qualifications

• Experience leading systems engineering activities for complex programs.
• Ability to capture stakeholder needs and translate into system requirements.
• Strong focus on architecture, interfaces, and verification planning.

Responsibilities

• Lead systems engineering activities for complex, multidisciplinary programs.
• Define stakeholder needs and system context, operating environments, and use cases.
• Develop and manage requirements, baselines, and traceability across the lifecycle.
• Create architectures, block diagrams, FFBDs, interfaces, and behavioral models.
• Maintain controlled requirements baseline and coordinate changes with stakeholders.
• Define verification methods, acceptance criteria, and evidence traceability.
• Integrate reliability, safety, cybersecurity, and other specialty inputs into system definition.
• Support multiple projects and participate in customer, supplier, and partner discussions.
• Develop templates, guidance, and coaching to promote consistent systems engineering practices.

Job description

Purpose

The Systems Engineer provides hands‑on systems engineering leadership across complex, multidisciplinary programs. The role initially supports new product development by establishing clear stakeholder needs, requirements, architecture, interfaces, system behavior, and verification planning, with progressive application to project execution and asset management. This position independently leads priority work and helps build practical, reusable systems engineering capability.

Functions

ESSENTIAL

• Systems Engineering Leadership: Independently lead systems engineering activities for complex, multidisciplinary programs, initially supporting NPD and progressively expanding into project execution and asset management.

• Needs and Operational Definition: Facilitate the definition of stakeholder needs, system context and boundaries, operating environments, Concept of Operations, use cases, and operational scenarios.

• Requirements Development and Management: Develop and maintain requirements, requirements allocation, the controlled baseline, and traceability throughout the supported product lifecycle. Coordinate technical content and approvals with project stakeholders and designated technical owners.

• Architecture, Behavior, and Interfaces: Develop and maintain functional, logical, and physical architectures, functional decompositions, FFBDs, system block diagrams, behavioral models, and interface control documents, including system‑level software functions, data flows, dependencies, and hardware‑software interactions.

• Baseline and Change Control: Serve as the authorized custodian of the controlled requirements baseline and associated systems‑engineering artifacts. Coordinate impact assessments and stakeholder reviews, implement approved changes, and maintain affected artifacts and traceability.

• Verification, Validation, and Compliance: Define verification methods and acceptance criteria, coordinate responsibilities, maintain requirements‑to‑evidence traceability, and track compliance and unresolved gaps. Technical disciplines retain ownership of their respective analyses, qualification activities, testing, and technical conclusions.

• Specialty Engineering and Technical Assurance: Integrate reliability, safety, maintainability, cybersecurity, human factors, quality, and other specialty‑engineering inputs into the system definition. Identify deficiencies and technical risks, recommend corrective actions, and elevate significant unresolved issues.

• Project and External Support: Support multiple projects based on business priority and technical risk, and participate in customer, supplier, and partner discussions involving requirements, architecture, interfaces, verification strategy, and acceptance criteria.

• Capability Building and Mentorship: Develop practical methods, templates, and guidance; apply structured requirements‑management tools; review technical work; coach teams; and promote consistent systems‑engineering practices.

NON-ESSENTIAL

• Other duties as assigned.