Systems Engineer

Own Your Future. Modern Technology Solutions, Inc. (MTSI) is seeking a Systems Engineer - Requirements SME. Place of work is El Segundo, CA near SAPF and SCIF facilities

Why is MTSI known as a Great Place to Work?

• Interesting Work: Our co-workers support some of the most important and critical programs to our national defense and security.
• Values: Our first core value is that employees come first. We challenge our co-workers to provide the highest level of support and service, and reward them with some of the best benefits in the industry.
• 100% Employee Ownership: we have a stake in each other's success, and the success of our customers. It's also nice to know what's going on across the company; we have company wide town-hall meetings three times a year.
• Great Benefits - Most Full-Time Staff Are Eligible for:
  • Starting PTO accrual of 20 days PTO/year + 10 holidays/year
  • Flexible schedules
  • 6% 401k match with immediate vesting
  • Semi-annual bonus eligibility (July and December)
  • Company funded Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) - a separate qualified retirement account
  • Up to $10,000 in annual tuition reimbursement
  • Other company funded benefits, like life and disability insurance
  • Optional zero deductible Blue Cross/Blue Shield health insurance plan
• Track Record of Success: We have grown every year since our founding in 1993

Modern Technology Solutions, Inc. (MTSI) is a 100% employee-owned engineering services and solutions company that provides high-demand technical expertise in Digital Transformation, Modeling and Simulation, Rapid Capability Development, Test and Evaluation, Artificial Intelligence, Autonomy, Cybersecurity and Mission Assurance.

MTSI delivers capabilities to solve problems of global importance. Founded in 1993, MTSI today has employees at over 20 offices and field sites worldwide.

For more information about MTSI, please visit www.mtsi-va.com.

Modern Technology Solutions Inc. (MTSI) is seeking a highly experienced Requirements Engineer (SME) to provide Systems Engineering, Integration, & Test (SEIT) support to the United States Space Force (USSF) Operational Command and Control (C2) Acquisition Delta responsible for developing software and the supporting architecture for the organize, understand, plan, decide, direct, and monitor capabilities within the C2 Joint Capability Areas (JCAs) in the Systems Engineering and Technical Advisory (SETA) role. The candidate should be a self-starter who possesses initiative, excellent communication skills, the ability to lead and to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, and a proven problem solver.

Job responsibilities will include, but may not be limited to:

• Performing requirements decomposition derived from documents such as Joint Requirements Oversight Council (JROC) products (e.g., the Software Initial Capabilities Document for Space C2), headquarters requirements, and guidance memorandums

• Using current best practices for assessing and prioritizing the requirements to ensure they are feasible, clear, and aligned with mission requirements / metrics to development activities such as traceability of JROC requirements to USSPACECOM Design Reference Missions

• Establishing traceability matrices to track requirements throughout each individual systems lifecycle, ensuring that all requirements are addressed in the final deliverable

• Documenting functional and non-functional requirements, use cases, and specifications

• Allocating performance specifications and requirements to development activities

• Interfacing and coordinating with stakeholders to ensure technical accuracy and verify correct capture of requirements for inclusion in requirements documents

• Liaising between technical teams and non-technical stakeholders to ensure a shared understanding of the requirements

• Coordinate and participate in technical meetings, generate requirements products as defined by the customer and stakeholders

• Working with MBSE counterparts to tracing requirements

• Validating requirements through completeness, consistency, validity, realism, ambiguity, and verifiability checks

• Performing cross-organization requirements satisfaction assessments, identifying alternative options for closing on total requirements scope

• Supporting requirements allocation excursions to include recommending requirement allocation to external parties where appropriate

• Coordinating requirements allocation and status of delivery against requirements with both internal and external stakeholders

• Managing changes to requirements throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring that all stakeholders are informed and that changes are documented and analyzed for impact

• Maintain a tracking tool of all ongoing requirements and change requests for leadership situational awareness

• Updating the contents of the requirements database to align with approved database changes, additions, and closures

• Serving as the secretariat for requirements Working Groups and supporting Integrated Product Teams (IPTs), maintaining stakeholder rosters, coordinating meeting invitations, arranging for conference room reservations, and documenting meeting minutes and action items

• Identifying, tracking, and assisting in resolution of action / watch items resulting from the test requirements management process

Required Experience:

• 15 years of relevant DoD/IC or relevant industry work experience

• 8 years of relevant requirements breakdown and tracing experience

• 2 years of working in Special Access Programs (SAP) and/or TS/SCI

• Demonstrated experience with management of a database tools (DOORS, Access, Jira, SQL)

• Must be highly skilled in problem-solving and leadership abilities

• Strong communications and collaboration skills

• Must have extensive Requirements development and management experience

• Extremely motivated individual who is a self-starter and works well in a fast-paced team environment

• Strong interpersonal skills to enable working, interfacing, and interrelating with diverse personnel and dynamic teams

• Excellent analytical and organizational skills, specifically attention to detail along with effective time and project management skills

• Experience with presenting and communicating technical data to government and leadership audience

• Willingness to mentor colleagues

Desired Experience:

• Experience working with DoD or IC acquisition organizations

• Experience working specifically on a SEIT or SETA contract

• Experience working with Space Systems Command (SSC)

• Understanding software related topics such as database design, content management systems, and enterprise service bus architecture

• Familiarity with DevSecOps implementation and execution

• Familiarity with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines executing in parallel

• Experience designing database tools (DOORS Next Gen, Access, SQL)

• User experience with Systems Modeling Language (SysML)/MBSE (i.e. CAMEO or SparxEA)

• Experience with requirements development using MBSE methodology and/or integrating requirements database with MBSE artifacts (e.g. Datahub)

Education /Certification Requirements:

• B.S. degree in Systems Engineering or a related field (required)

• M.S. degree in Systems Engineering or a related field (desired)

Security Clearance Level Required:

• Top Secret (Must be a U.S. Citizen)

• SCI eligible

• SAP eligibility

Location/Travel Requirements:

• Place of work is El Segundo, CA area, remote work opportunity is limited

• May require travel up to 20% of time within the continental United States

The pay range for this position in California is $180,000/year to $220,000/year; however, base pay offered may vary depending on established government contract ranges, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience, and other factors. MTSI also offers a full range of medical, financial, and other benefits, dependent on the position offered. Base pay information is based on market location. Applicants should apply via MTSI's internal or external careers site.

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