Senior Systems Engineer

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 Secure Solutions Group within the System's Engineering Directorate is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to support concept and architecture, and requirement development of trustworthy secure platforms that resist cyber, reverse engineering, and supply chain threats across Draper's mission areas. The group has multidisciplinary proficiencies in secure systems architecture, hardware security and resilience, software security and resilience, system validation and accreditation, and cryptography. Specific responsibilities include the following: - Work with cross disciplinary team of system, hardware, and software engineers to support program execution. - Communicate with program members, program offices, and sponsors to present work to the technical and evaluation community. - Bring a systems engineering prospective to support development system architectures for secure solutions. - Support analysis of Draper, customer, and sponsor developed systems to evaluate effectiveness and suitability This role will involve working across a multi-disciplinary team (including external and internal stakeholders) innovating new microelectronics system solutions over the full system development lifecycle. Job Description: Duties/Responsibilities - Independently execute system engineering lifecycle assignments. - Adapt appropriately to changes in program priorities and requirements. - Adheres to existing best practices and Quality Management System processes. - Continues to expand their depth/knowledge in their technical discipline through formal and informal learning. - Work within multi-disciplinary teams and independently execute assignments - Drive solutions to complex problems with limited direction - Lead small teams (few than five people) and align team towards program goals. - Provides insight and suggests 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. - Actively mentor less experienced engineers and provide thoughtful, constructive feedback - Performs other duties as assigned. Skills/Abilities - Highly-organized, capable of approaching problems with a system-level perspective. - Strong oral and written communication skills. - Practical experience with simulation-based performance analysis. - Practical experience with the systems engineering process. - Roles may require proficiency with modeling and simulation, computer language coding, descriptive modeling (e.g. SysML), STPA, and/or other engineering analysis tools - Knowledge of GN&C, avionics architectures, fault tolerance, cyber/security, comms/encryption, threat modeling or other technologies may be required as defined in the summary. Education Bachelor's degree in engineering, physics, mathematics, or related field. Masters degree or higher preferred.