Systems Engineer III

Jobtailor; Colorado; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in Colorado is looking for a Senior Nuclear Survivability Engineer to decompose top-level requirements into system, subsystem, and component levels and ensure traceability from criteria to design and test artifacts.

You will lead risk management, technical planning, and reviews, collaborate across hardware, software, and specialty teams, and prepare compliance matrices and reports for internal and government review while mentoring junior engineers.

Qualifications

• Experience in requirements development, decomposition, and traceability for complex systems.
• Familiarity with nuclear survivability concepts or strong aptitude to learn them quickly.
• Understanding of systems engineering processes across the full lifecycle (requirements, design, verification, validation).

Responsibilities

• Decompose top-level Nuclear Survivability requirements into system, subsystem, and component levels.
• Develop and maintain requirements traceability from system-level criteria to design and test artifacts.
• Collaborate with hardware, software, and specialty engineering teams to implement requirements across the system architecture.
• Prepare compliance matrices, verification plans, and technical reports for internal and customer/government review.
• Lead system and decision analysis, technical planning, and risk management efforts.
• Provide guidance to junior engineers and mentor less experienced team members.

Job description

• Decompose and allocate top-level Nuclear Survivability requirements into system, subsystem, and component-level specifications
• Develop and maintain requirements traceability from system-level nuclear survivability criteria to design and test artifacts
• Collaborate with hardware, software, and specialty engineering teams to implement nuclear survivability requirements across the system architecture
• Support radiation testing activities, including test planning coordination, data review, and documentation
• Monitor hardness assurance/hardness surveillance processes for manufacturing and design compliance
• Participate in requirements reviews, design reviews, and technical interchange meetings
• Prepare compliance matrices, verification plans, and technical reports for internal and customer/government review
• Identify and help resolve gaps, conflicts, or ambiguities in nuclear survivability requirements
• Lead system and decision analysis, technical planning, and risk management efforts
• Provide guidance to junior engineers and mentor less experienced team members
• Take responsibility for architecture/design development, technical monitoring, and lifecycle management

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics, or related field
• Experience in requirements development, decomposition, and traceability for complex systems
• Familiarity with nuclear survivability concepts (radiation effects, hardness assurance, EMP) or strong aptitude to learn them quickly
• Understanding of systems engineering processes across the full lifecycle (requirements, design, verification, validation)
• Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills for cross-functional collaboration
• Experience using JIRA, JAMA and CAMEO
• Direct experience with nuclear survivability standards (e.g., MIL-STD-3023, DG-1023) or radiation hardness assurance (RHA) programs preferred
• Familiarity with requirements management tools (e.g., DOORS, Jama) preferred
• Exposure to radiation test facilities, test data analysis, or hardness surveillance program monitoring preferred
• Active U.S. government security clearance preferred
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret U.S. Security Clearance
• U.S. Citizenship status required

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in Nuclear Survivability requirements development, decomposition, and traceability, with a strong understanding of systems engineering processes. Capable of leading technical planning, risk management, and mentoring junior engineers while ensuring compliance with nuclear survivability standards.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Nuclear Survivability Requirements Development
• Requirements Traceability
• Radiation Hardness Assurance
• Systems Engineering Processes
• Technical Planning and Risk Management

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• Requirements Development
• Requirements Decomposition
• Requirements Traceability
• Data Analysis
• Technical Report Preparation

Soft Skills

• Analytical Skills
• Organizational Skills
• Communication Skills

Certifications & Qualifications

• Top Secret U.S. Security Clearance

Industry Keywords

• Nuclear Survivability
• Radiation Effects
• Hardness Assurance
• EMP
• MIL-STD-3023
• DG-1023

Tools & Technologies

• JIRA
• JAMA
• CAMEO
• DOORS