Sr. Systems Engineer (Aerospace)

Description

The company is an engineering firm with 3,000+ staff across North America. It works with clients in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, and rail, on projects that range from space systems to autonomous electric vehicles.

It is part of a global engineering group of over 57,000 engineers in 30 countries and covers the product development cycle, from consulting through full project outsourcing.

You would work on hard engineering problems with support from mentors and room to grow in your career. The team values people who feel respected, backed, and motivated to develop.

Responsibilities

• Build verification and validation plans that match program goals, system requirements, and customer needs.
• Set the verification methods, pass criteria, and compliance approaches, using test, analysis, demonstration, and inspection.
• Define and keep up the verification setup, covering hardware, software, firmware, and the test assets needed to run it.
• Produce and maintain requirements traceability records, verification matrices, compliance documents, and evidence packages.
• Analyze verification results, look into anomalies, and push corrective actions until requirements are met.
• Coordinate with Integration and Test teams on system integration, verification runs, and issue resolution.
• Support program delivery through technical planning, resource estimates, scheduling, and coordination.
• Weigh engineering trade-offs to meet technical goals within cost, schedule, and program commitments.
• Take part in design reviews, technical interchange meetings, milestone reviews, and customer discussions.
• Mentor engineers on systems engineering practice, requirements management, verification planning, and documentation standards.
• Drive process improvements that raise engineering quality, consistency, efficiency, and technical rigor.
• Work with multidisciplinary teams across systems, software, hardware, and test to deliver programs successfully.
• Take on other systems engineering tasks as needed.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, or a closely related technical field.
• At least 5 years of systems engineering work on aerospace, space, defense, or other complex technical programs.
• Solid grasp of systems engineering methods and product development lifecycles.
• Experience writing, managing, and validating system and subsystem requirements.
• Working knowledge of requirements traceability, interface management, system integration, and configuration management.
• Experience supporting verification, validation, and compliance work across the development lifecycle.
• Skill at turning customer needs, operational concepts, and technical specifications into engineering requirements.
• Strong analytical ability to find, troubleshoot, and resolve technical problems.
• Strong organization and the ability to juggle several priorities at once.
• Clear written and verbal communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Proven record of working well in cross-functional engineering teams.

Conditions

Based at Westminster, CO, El Segundo, CA, or Austin, TX.

Open only to US persons, meaning US citizens or permanent residents, given the nature of the work.

Salary depends on location and on the candidate's knowledge, qualifications, skills, education, training, and experience.

As a federal contractor, the company runs a drug-free workplace, so a pre-employment drug screen is required before hire.