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Senior Product Development Systems Engineer

Draper

$82,300 - $205,750
Oct 10, 2025
Cambridge, MA, US
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Draper is seeking a Product Development Systems Engineer to work within multidisciplinary teams to develop and provide product-based full system lifecycle development and management of complex electrical, mechanical and software-based systems in mission domains such as: strategic defense systems, hypersonic and space systems, precision guided munitions, and autonomous air/sea vehicles.

Requirements

  • Practical experience with the systems engineering process
  • Familiarity with model-based systems engineering (MBSE) and/or digital engineering (DE) tools/methods
  • Roles may require proficiency with modeling/simulation, computer coding languages, SysML, STPA, DOORs, and/or other engineering analysis tools
  • Knowledge of GN&C, avionics architectures, fault tolerance, cyber/security, comms/encryption, or other technologies may be required as defined in the summary.
  • Requirement Solicitation including Stakeholder Needs, Measures of Performance, and Use Case Analysis
  • Experience with INCOSE Requirement Standards
  • Requirements Analysis (Traceability, Decomposition, Architecture)

Responsibilities

  • A Product Systems Engineer will lead the Systems Engineering efforts across the system lifecycle. Starting at the System Level, a product engineer will follow the decomposition and design of the system throughout development, sell off and deployment.
  • Apply strong systems engineering principles to product development process for Product Deployment including; concept, requirements management, design, simulation, Integration & Test and data package development, review and release.
  • Key job elements include the ability to engage with customers, cross functional teams and external partners to develop and manage requirements and interface designs for; highly accurate strategic sensors, inertial navigation systems, fault tolerant computing, enhanced ground testing, integration and test environments, engineering qualification, factory acceptance test and deploy system surveillance and upgrades.
  • Coordinate, schedule and participate in the requirements assessments.
  • Assists in strategic technical planning, project management, performance engineering, risk management and interface design.
  • Conducts requirements engineering, scheduling, reliability, development, and evaluation, maintainability and analysis for training.
  • Supports the analyses and allocation of requirements.

Other

  • Applicants selected for this position will be required to obtain and maintain a government security clearance.
  • An active Secret Clearance is REQUIRED.
  • Strong oral and written communication skills
  • Highly-organized, capable of approaching problems with a system-level perspective
  • Lead small teams. Seeks to align team towards program goals and builds trust within the team.