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Staff Systems Engineer, Strategic Defense

Washington, DC (DC-01)💼 Full-time💰 $191,000–$191,000🗓 2026-09-15 → 2026-09-26

Core

Managing architecture and requirements for next-generation air and missile defense systems, ensuring traceability through test and evaluations for fire-control certification.

Role type

Staff Systems Engineer (Strategic Defense)

Builds

Fire-control programs, air and missile defense systems

Domain

Defense / Aerospace / Missile Defense

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

Systems Engineering lifecycle management, Requirements Elicitation and Management, Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), SysML, DoDAF, UAFP, Fire-Control systems knowledge, Reliability engineering concepts, Systems testing and evaluation, Configuration management, Stakeholder interface, Digital Engineering workflows, Integrated Modeling Environments (Teamwork Cloud), Cameo MagicDraw/Rhapsody/SparxEA, Metrics generation, Process improvement

Preferred skills

Weapon systems modeling, Threat scenario modeling, Reliability prediction techniques, Failure mode analysis, Test planning and execution, AFSIM, Model Based Systems Engineering integrations, MATLAB/SIMULINK

Technologies

SysML, DoDAF, UAFP, Cameo MagicDraw, Rhapsody, SparxEA, Teamwork Cloud, AFSIM, MATLAB, SIMULINK

Responsibilities

Interface with internal programs and external customers; Develop requirements and architecture management plans; Create model artifacts for stakeholder demonstrations; Lead requirements and architecture products with full traceability; Participate in Digital and Systems Engineering Strategy; Develop systems engineering artifacts for autonomy, simulation, and perception products.

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with strategic oversight

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