Systems Engineer

IERUS specializes in electromagnetic spectrum technologies and design for RF, IR, and optical applications. IERUS also supports customers with a diverse set of competencies including software development, air and missile defense, and systems engineering. IERUS develops value for our defense and commercial customers through accelerations of the technology life cycle: identifying, creating, transitioning, and producing technologies with integrity of purpose and product.

IERUS is looking for bright, talented, motivated, and dedicated employees in the engineering field, and offers competitive compensation and benefits package. To learn more, please visit

Description:

This is an opportunity to join the IERUS team as a Systems Engineer supporting a large Missile Defense Agency program.

Responsibilities:

• Develop use cases and prepare systems engineering artifacts, including defining Epics and Features for the Cross-Functional Product Teams to implement customer-requested capabilities
• Support the development and review of interface documents, system requirements, Verification Cross Reference Matrix (VCRM) development, architectural documentation, system engineering estimates, and conduct formal and informal engineering reviews
• Provide development support for junior systems engineering team members to create use cases, enhancing their skills within the department
• Reviewing the content and details of technical products and serving as a technical interface to MDA working-level counterparts as needed
• Work will be performed under the direction of various technical leads and product owners, requiring collaboration with team members, C2BMC management, and government customers to ensure that high-quality products are delivered on time and within the available resources
• Solves complex problems that require the regular use of ingenuity and creativity
• Work is performed without appreciable direction and is reviewed for desired results from a relatively long time perspective
• Erroneous decisions would generally fail to achieve primary organizational objectives
• May function in project leadership roles and represent the organization as the prime customer contact on significant technical matters on contracts

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Science, or equivalent combination and experience and 5+ years of prior relevant experience.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen
• Active Secret clearance
• Must possess the ability to be part of an integrated team tasked with developing and maintaining the physical, functional, and technical requirements baselines necessary to describe the desired capabilities of an evolving MDS Command & Control, Battle Management, and Communications (C2BMC) system
• Demonstrated experience in mission analysis with skill in:
  • Development of use cases
  • Sequence diagrams
  • SysML modeling in support of MBSE
• Skills in generating system or element-level functional, performance, and interface specifications to document and control the achievement of desired capabilities.
• Requirements elicitation, derivation, and decomposition to lower-level subsystems and components
• Maintenance of system and component baselines in a requirement management system
• Defining the relationships between internal and external components
• Communicating system-level use cases along with their associated epics and feature relationships to a diverse group that includes customers, developers, engineers, subject matter experts, and users.

Desired Qualifications:

• Certification: INCOSE Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP) Certification
• Certification: Object Management Group Certified Systems Modeling Professional - Model Builder Fundamental (OCSMP - MBF)
• DoD 8140 certification at IAT Level II or higher (Security+ CE, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC, SSCP, CCNA Security, etc.) is highly desired at the start
• Skills in logical architecture modeling and interface definition, along with knowledge of cybersecurity concepts and security accreditation, are highly desirable
• Experience with Agile Methods, and Epic and Feature definition is a significant plus
• Experience with other Space Domain and Missile Defense Systems is highly desired

Location: Huntsville, AL

IERUS Technologies is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age, or any other federally protected class.

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