Systems Engineer for GNC Requirements and Interfaces

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. Our multidisciplinary teams of engineers and scientists work in a collaborative environment that inspires the cross-fertilization of ideas necessary for true innovation. For more information about Draper, visit www.draper.com . Job Description Summary: The GN&C System Architecture group at Draper is seeking a Systems Engineer to develop and manage requirements and interface specifications for guidance, navigation, and control (GN&C) systems in mission domains such as strategic defense systems, hypersonic and space systems, precision guided munitions, and autonomous air/sea vehicles. This role entails the application of systems engineering methods within a model-based systems engineering (MBSE) and/or digital engineering framework. Responsibilities include the elicitation of stakeholder needs, definition of use cases and operations concepts, descriptive system modeling, requirement tree development and flow-down, analysis of requirements and interfaces to define architectures and system designs, and requirements management through the product lifecycle. Job Description: Duties/Responsibilities - Participate in the requirements assessments. - Assists in strategic technical planning, project management, performance engineering, risk management and interface design. - Conducts requirements engineering, scheduling, reliability, development, and evaluation, maintainability and analysis for training. - Supports the analyses and allocation of requirements. - Assists in the capture and translation of mission and customer requirements/needs into systems/capability requirements and solutions. - Assist in the assessment effort in conducting both formal and informal evaluations and analysis. - Analyze assessment results and make improvement/change recommendations. - Ensure assessment results and recommendations can be incorporated into the requirements documentation. - Independently execute system engineering lifecycle assignments under the oversight of program leadership. - Provide content for technical reports and presentations with appropriate guidance. - Adapt appropriately to changes in program priorities and requirements. - Identify challenges associated with assigned work and communicate them to project leadership. Skills/Abilities - Highly-organized, capable of approaching problems with a system-level perspective - Strong oral and written communication skills - Practical experience with the systems engineering process - Familiarity with model-based systems engineering (MBSE) and/or digital engineering (DE) tools/methods - Roles may require proficiency with modeling/simulation, computer coding languages, SysML, STPA, DOORs, and/or other engineering analysis tools - Knowledge of GN&C, avionics architectures, fault tolerance, cyber/security, comms/encryption, or other technologies may be required as defined in the summary. Education Requires a bachelor's degree in engineering, physics, mathematics, or related field. Masters degree preferred.