Systems Engineer II – Ejection Seats (Onsite, CO)

RTX; Colorado Springs (CO); On-site; USD 69,000 - 131,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Three weeks vacation

401(k) plan with matching

Job summary

Collins Aerospace in Colorado Springs is seeking a Systems Engineer (P2) to join the SEIT team. You will support system requirements, MBSE analysis, and cross‑functional collaboration with engineering, program management, and operations on active defense programs.

You will work under the systems engineering leads, develop requirements traces, manage verification activities, and contribute to process improvements. A STEM degree and 2+ years aerospace experience are required; U.S.

Qualifications

• Experience as a technical systems engineer.
• Hands-on experience with aerospace/defense hardware products.
• Experience with the systems engineering development lifecycle process, including requirements analysis, system design, integration, verification and validation.
• Experience working in a multidisciplinary team environment with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are authorized to access information under this program/contract.
• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 2 years of prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field.

Responsibilities

• Utilize robust Systems Engineering practices in support of projects assigned.
• Support the development and flow down of system requirements, ensuring that specifications sent to vendors conform to the system specifications.
• Perform requirements decomposition from system level requirements to subsystem.
• Perform requirements traceability at multiple levels of the system specification tree to identify and resolve orphan requirements.
• Perform MBSE functional and behavior analyses to develop system-of-systems requirements via Enterprise Architect.
• Complete requirements collection, including developing them and managing them, along with the creation of the Requirements Compliance Matrix and the Requirements Verification Matrix.
• Support capture of project and product requirements in Jama.
• Support requirements verification through review of Integration & Test Plans, Reports, and prepare qualification similarity reports as needed.
• Participate in peer reviews throughout the product lifecycle of design, development, integration and test, and flight test requirements verification.
• Crosstrain to develop skills to support test engineering in test execution.
• Receive mentorship to grow and develop technical skills as a systems engineer.

Skills

Technical systems engineer

Aerospace hardware experience

MBSE modeling

Requirements analysis

Education

STEM degree

Tools

Enterprise Architect

Jama

Job description

Collins Aerospace in Colorado Springs is seeking a Systems Engineer (P2) to join the SEIT team. You will support system requirements, MBSE analysis, and cross‑functional collaboration with engineering, program management, and operations on active defense programs.

You will work under the systems engineering leads, develop requirements traces, manage verification activities, and contribute to process improvements. A STEM degree and 2+ years aerospace experience are required; U.S.