System Engineer III

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California, +1 more state.

📋 Description

• Assist in the development and integration of cutting-edge nuclear energy systems.

• Utilize systems engineering techniques to convert program goals, stakeholder requirements, and design inputs into precise, verifiable technical specifications and integrated system solutions.

• Create and uphold requirements, functional architectures, system architectures, interfaces, and verification strategies across various product and plant architecture levels.

• Collaborate with engineering disciplines, project management, licensing, quality assurance, operations, suppliers, and external stakeholders.

• Identify integration issues and address cross-functional technical challenges.

• Lead targeted systems engineering initiatives.

• Organize multidisciplinary technical evaluations.

• Assess system-level repercussions of proposed modifications.

• Aid in managing technical risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies throughout the engineering lifecycle.

• Mentor junior engineers.

• Contribute to enhancing systems engineering processes, tools, templates, training, and documentation.

• Develop, assign, maintain, and track technical requirements.

• Conduct functional analysis and decomposition.

• Create and sustain functional, logical, and physical system architectures.

• Define, document, manage, and coordinate both internal and external interfaces.

• Formulate verification strategies, methods, plans, acceptance criteria, and evidence.

• Coordinate and facilitate reviews of requirements, architecture, interfaces, integration, and verification.

• Ensure compliance with company procedures, codes, standards, and regulatory guidelines.

• Adhere to safety protocols, report hazards and equipment issues, and wear required personal protective equipment.

• Engage in occasional work in prototyping, laboratory, testing facilities, manufacturing, or industrial settings.

• Some travel may be necessary, up to 10%.

• Perform other assigned duties.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in systems engineering, mechanical engineering, nuclear engineering, electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, or a related technical discipline.

• Relevant professional experience applying systems engineering methodologies to intricate engineering programs or products.

• Experience in developing, assigning, maintaining, and tracing technical requirements.

• Proficiency in functional analysis and decomposition, system architecture development, interface definition and management, system integration, requirements verification and validation, or technical change-impact assessment.

• Experience in coordinating technical reviews or leading focused cross-functional engineering efforts.

• Strong skills in technical writing, communication, presentation, and interpersonal interactions.

• Familiarity with systems engineering lifecycle processes and technical management methodologies.

• Knowledge of requirements development, decomposition, allocation, traceability, verification, and validation.

• Understanding of functional, logical, and physical architecture development.

• Knowledge of interface identification, definition, documentation, and management.

• Awareness of system integration, configuration management, and engineering change-control principles.

• Understanding of technical risk, assumption, issue, opportunity, and dependency management.

• General knowledge of engineering design, licensing, quality, operations, and project execution within complex technical programs.

• Proficient in writing clear, concise, implementation-independent, and verifiable technical requirements.

• Skilled in conducting functional analysis, architecture development, interface analysis, and change-impact assessment.

• Competent in utilizing requirements management, modeling, analysis, and documentation tools.

• Ability to evaluate complex systems holistically and recognize interactions, dependencies, and unintended consequences.

• Capacity to work collaboratively across engineering disciplines, organizations, and levels of technical authority.

• Ability to balance technical rigor with program costs, schedules, risks, and execution needs.

• Capability to manage multiple priorities and maintain attention to detail in a fast-paced engineering environment.

• Proactive in collecting, organizing, managing, and transferring technical knowledge.

• Occasional flexibility in schedule or extended hours may be necessary to support critical project milestones, technical reviews, testing, or integration activities.

• Must be authorized by the Department of Energy to access Part 810-controlled information; certain foreign nationals may require a Department of Energy export control license.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation packages.

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits for employees and their dependents.

• Paid vacation.

• 401(k) plan.

• Pre-tax health insurance, dependent care, and commuter benefits (FSA).

• Access to benefits for full-time employees (excluding interns).