About Agile Defense
At Agile Defense we know that action defines the outcome and new challenges require new solutions. That’s why we always look to the future and embrace change with an unmovable spirit and the courage to build for what comes next.
Our vision is to bring adaptive innovation to support our nation's most important missions through the seamless integration of advanced technologies, elite minds, and unparalleled agility—leveraging a foundation of speed, flexibility, and ingenuity to strengthen and protect our nation’s vital interests.
Requisition #: 1647
Job Title: System Engineer (MBSE)
Location: Hybrid, St Louis, MO
Clearance Level: Secret, Must Have Clearance to Start
Job Description
This position Applies a collaborative, interdisciplinary systems engineering approach to plan, design, develop, integrate, and verify complex systems and system-of-systems solutions throughout the lifecycle. Analyzes customer and operational requirements to define system performance, ensure compatibility across technical and program interfaces, and optimize overall system architecture. Conducts engineering analyses to support affordability, reliability, maintainability, safety, cybersecurity, certification, and mission assurance objectives. Leads requirements management, risk and issue management, technology readiness assessments, and systems engineering processes while resolving cross-functional technical challenges to ensure successful mission outcomes.
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.
Education and Background
Bachelor, Master or Doctorate of Science degree from an accredited course of study, in Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or other technical degreeExperience 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
Years of Experience
5+ years
Required Skills
5+ years of experience in system engineering, 1+ years of experience with Scaled Agile Framework or Agile Methodologies
Working Conditons
Typical office environment.
