Draper
Senior System
Cambridge, MA · Senior · Full-time
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About the role
- Draper is an independent, nonprofit research and development company headquartered in Cambridge, MA.
- The 2,000+ employees of Draper tackle important national challenges with a promise of delivering successful and usable solutions.
- From military defense and space exploration to biomedical engineering, lives often depend on the solutions we provide.
Responsibilities
- System Requirements & Concepts Engineer will lead design concepts through the use of novel engineering approaches to drive new system development, upgrades and enhancements to future and deployed systems.
- Employ novel digital engineering techniques to develop and manage system requirements in a digital ecosystem of system requirements and design artifacts
- Assists in strategic technical planning, project management, performance engineering, risk management and interface design.
- Drive solutions to complex problems with limited direction - contribute to task planning and test development, propose ways forward, and adapt appropriately to changes in program requirements
- Provide insight and suggest design modifications based on analysis outcomes, and to apply analysis techniques across a range of technical challenges.
- Identify program/system-level technical risks and develop and execute mitigation strategies.
Requirements
- Existing DoD security clearance is required
- Applicants selected for this position will be required to obtain and maintain a US government security clearance.
- Requires a bachelor's degree in engineering, physics, mathematics, or related field.
Nice to have
- Coordinate, schedule and participate in the requirements assessments.
- Conducts requirements engineering, scheduling, reliability, development, and evaluation, maintainability and analysis for training.
- Assists in the capture and translation of mission and customer requirements/needs into systems/capability requirements and solutions.
- Analyze assessment results and make improvement/change recommendations.
- Ensure assessment results and recommendations can be incorporated into the requirements documentation.
- Actively mentor less experienced engineers and provide thoughtful, constructive feedback.
- Highly-organized, capable of approaching problems with a system-level perspective
Skills
- Requirements and Design Compliance
- Requirements Verification Traceability, System/Product Compliance Plans and Reporting
- System Verification Development, Management and Execution
- Interface Development and Management
- Desired Skills & Abilities:
Compensation
- The US base salary range for this full-time position is
Benefits
- Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and does not include bonuses or benefits.
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information.
- Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
Equal opportunity
- equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities.
- To request reasonable accommodation, please contact hr@draper.com.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Existing DoD security clearance is required
This listing is sourced directly from Draper's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.