Senior Systems Engineer

Role Overview

• Analyze stakeholder intent and user workflows to shape requirements, features, and user stories, serving as a user proxy to ensure system functionality meets operational needs
• Act as a knowledgeable user proxy by executing and evaluating prototype capabilities, AI/ML outputs, and user experience implementations to assess operational suitability, usability, and alignment with intended outcomes
• Collaborate with product owners, software engineers, data scientists, ML engineers, UX designers, and test teams to support continuous integration, verification, and validation of AI-enabled capabilities
• Support UI/UX concept development (e.g., wireframes or mockups) to inform user-centered design and operational workflows
• Contribute to automated test strategy, including definition of verification criteria and support to test implementation
• Provide informal technical leadership and guidance across multiple Agile software and AI/ML development teams
• Maintain requirements transparency and traceability across system, software, and AI/ML components throughout the development lifecycle
• Perform end-to-end requirements management, including decomposition, allocation, traceability, verification mapping, and development of compliance artifacts
• Develop and maintain system architecture artifacts, interface definitions, and design documentation using digital engineering best practices
• Generate and maintain formal program artifacts such as system specifications, interface control documents (ICDs), software description documents (SDDs), V&V documentation, and user-facing technical documentation
• Support the Chief Engineer with technical planning, interface coordination, risk tracking, and milestone readiness
• Participate in customer engagements, program reviews, government test events, and discrepancy review boards as a systems engineering representative

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in systems engineering, software engineering, computer science, or a related STEM discipline
• Minimum of 5 years of systems engineering experience supporting software-intensive systems across the full development lifecycle
• Ability to serve as an operationally informed stand-in for the customer by executing the system, interpreting AI outputs, and assessing fitness-for-purpose against defined operational questions, stakeholder intent, and system performance objectives
• Demonstrated experience working hands-on within Agile development teams, including writing and refining epics, features, and user stories; defining acceptance criteria; and participating in sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives
• Strong background in requirements management, including decomposition, allocation, bidirectional traceability, and verification planning
• Experience supporting system integration, verification, and validation (IV&V) for software-based systems
• Ability to collaborate effectively with software engineers, data scientists, ML engineers, UX designers, and test teams
• Experience developing and maintaining technical documentation such as system specifications, interface control documents (ICDs), and software design descriptions
• Demonstrated strong communication, interpersonal, and collaboration skills, with experience engaging technical and non-technical stakeholders and working effectively across distributed and virtual Agile teams
• Active TS/SCI U.S. Government Security Clearance with current Polygraph

Tech Stack

• TypeScript

Benefits

• healthcare
• wellness
• financial
• retirement
• family support
• continuing education
• time off benefits