Senior HW/SW Systems Engineer
We are seeking a senior systems engineer to own requirements development, decomposition, traceability, verification strategy, and system acceptance for a complex hardware/software defense program. This person will connect customer needs to lower-level engineering requirements and ensure the design and test evidence support successful system sell-off.
The strongest candidate has led requirements and verification work across multidisciplinary hardware, software, design, and test teams, can work confidently in a controlled requirements database, and is comfortable presenting technical status to customer engineers and program leadership.
Location: Middletown, Rhode Island 02842
Schedule: First shift, Monday-Friday, 5/40 schedule
Work Setting: Onsite
Role Type: Contract
Contract Duration: Long-term renewable contract with extension or permanent-conversion potential
Contract Classification: All hours billed at straight time; no premium overtime
Openings: 2
Citizenship: U.S. citizenship required
Clearance: Active DoD Confidential clearance required at start
Pay Rate: $85.50-$101.00 per hour, depending on experience level and client approval
Benefits
- Weekly pay and direct deposit
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance options
- 401(k) eligibility after the applicable waiting period
- Referral bonus program
- Rhode Island sick and safe leave: up to 40 hours, equal to five eight-hour days, per year for covered full-time employees
- Dedicated CRG recruiting and account-management support
Responsibilities
- Capture and maintain the program requirements baseline in a controlled requirements database.
- Analyze and decompose Level 1 requirements into Levels 2 through 4 in partnership with engineering discipline leads.
- Maintain bidirectional requirements traceability and support formal configuration-management processes and control boards.
- Develop and execute the system requirements verification strategy.
- Coordinate with design and test leads to produce robust validation and verification plans, procedures, and qualification evidence.
- Ensure hardware/software systems meet performance and non-performance requirements and are ready for customer acceptance.
- Lead system-development, integration, troubleshooting, and process-improvement activities.
- Interface with customer scientists, engineers, and program managers.
- Communicate program status, risks, issues, and results through technical presentations and written reports.
- Support domestic travel of less than 10 percent as required.
Qualifications
- U.S. citizen with an active DoD Confidential clearance at the time of hire.
- Bachelor's degree in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics and at least 10 years of relevant experience; an advanced related degree and at least 7 years of experience; or at least 14 years of relevant experience without a degree.
- Senior-level systems engineering experience on integrated hardware/software systems.
- Hands-on experience with requirements analysis, development, decomposition, baselining, maintenance, and traceability.
- Experience developing verification strategies and coordinating qualification or acceptance testing.
- Ability to work onsite in Middletown, Rhode Island.
Preferred Qualifications
- Technical leadership experience as a lead engineer or senior systems engineer.
- IBM DOORS or comparable requirements-management database expertise.
- Experience building and maintaining requirements traceability matrices.
- Experience participating in or supporting configuration control boards.
- Defense, Navy, undersea, maritime, sensor, mission-system, or command-and-control program experience.
- Customer-facing technical leadership across design, integration, and test teams.
