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System Engineer (MBSE)

Agile Defense· Digital Transformation – Engineering
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Hybrid (St Louis, MO)RegularPosted 4mo ago

About the role

System Engineer role focused on applying MBSE to plan, design, develop, integrate, and verify complex systems and system-of-systems throughout the lifecycle, with emphasis on requirements management, risk and issue management, verification/validation, and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

  • Perform analysis to optimize total system and/or system architecture to solve complex mission planning problems.
  • Apply interdisciplinary, collaborative approaches to plan, design, develop and verify system solutions.
  • Define and coordinate system performance requirements and integrate technical parameters.
  • Define high level functional and performance requirements and verification methods, subsequent analysis, decomposition, and derivation of requirements, allocation of those lower-level requirements to physical and functional architectural elements, and tracking them through design, verification, integration, and operational validation.
  • Perform analyses for affordability, safety, reliability, maintainability, testability, survivability, human systems integration, survivability, vulnerability, susceptibility, system security, regulatory, certification, product assurance, product security (cyber security) and other specialties quality factors into a preferred configuration to ensure mission success.
  • Utilization of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) tools such as Cameo, and mathematical modeling and simulation to develop system definitions and perform trade studies in assigned areas
  • Perform risk assessments and generate mitigation plans for various programs with regard to compliance with system requirements and customer capabilities
  • Develop verification and validation methods, processes, logic, and plans in support of program milestones.
  • Develop and document software system requirements
  • Analyze and translate requirements into system architecture, hardware and software designs and interface specifications
  • Test and validate to ensure system designs meet operational and functional requirements.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor, Master or Doctorate of Science degree from an accredited course of study, in Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or other technical degree
  • Experience with software configuration management tools such as Team Foundation Server/Azure DevOps
  • Experience writing and analyzing test procedures and software requirements
  • Experience with OFP (Operational Flight Program) SIL (System Integration Lab) testing

Skills

Required:System engineeringMBSE tooling (Cameo)
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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