Systems Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Develop, allocate, maintain, and track technical requirements across various levels of product and plant architecture.

• Convert program objectives, stakeholder needs, design inputs, and regulatory factors into precise, complete, consistent, and verifiable requirements.

• Conduct and assist with functional analysis and decomposition to specify necessary system behavior and establish traceability among functions, requirements, architecture, and verification activities.

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

• Define, document, coordinate, and manage internal and external interfaces among systems, organizations, suppliers, facilities, and external partners.

• Formulate verification strategies, methods, plans, acceptance criteria, and evidence showcasing compliance with requirements.

• Coordinate and lead multidisciplinary reviews related to requirements, architecture, interfaces, integration, and verification.

• Ensure adherence to company procedures, codes, standards, and regulatory mandates.

• Spearhead focused systems engineering initiatives and assess system-level impacts of proposed modifications.

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

• Mentor junior engineers and enhance systems engineering processes, tools, templates, training, and documentation.

• Execute additional duties as assigned.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Nuclear Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

• Relevant professional experience utilizing systems engineering methodologies on complex engineering programs or products.

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

• Proficiency with 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 tasks.

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

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

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

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

• Expertise in interface identification, definition, documentation, and control.

• Knowledge 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 intricate technical programs.

• Capability in crafting clear, concise, implementation-independent, and verifiable technical requirements.

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

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

• Ability to evaluate complex systems comprehensively and recognize interactions, dependencies, and unintended effects.

• Capacity to collaborate effectively across engineering disciplines, organizations, and levels of technical authority.

• Ability to balance technical rigor with program cost, schedule, risk, and execution requirements.

• Skill in managing multiple priorities while maintaining attention to detail in a fast-paced engineering environment.

• Ability to proactively gather, organize, manage, and transfer technical knowledge.

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

• Experience in nuclear, power generation, aerospace, defense, energy, or another highly regulated sector is preferred.

• Experience with requirements management tools such as Jama Connect is preferred.

• Familiarity with model-based systems engineering methods and tools is preferred.

• Understanding of nuclear quality, licensing, safety, or regulatory practices is preferred.

• Experience supporting design reviews, trade studies, configuration management, or technical baseline management is preferred.

• Familiarity with ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288 or the INCOSE Systems Engineering Handbook is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation packages

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

• Paid vacation

• 401(k)

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