As a Systems Engineer, you will manage and refine system requirements for complex hardware/software systems throughout the entire development lifecycle. You’ll partner with cross-functional teams, deliver technical expertise, and guide critical design decisions to ensure our solutions stay on the leading edge of technology and meet mission needs.

CLEARANCE REQUIRED: TS/SCI with Poly

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Join a cutting-edge team driving innovation and mission-critical solutions for space domain awareness and geolocation. By leveraging advanced RF signal processing, geospatial analytics, and Software Defined Radio (SDR) technologies, our program designs, develops, and maintains complex, high-performance systems that handle massive data sets in real-time. You’ll play a key role in integrating software across diverse hardware platforms, ensuring seamless interoperability and robust performance while contributing to the creation of novel algorithms, analytics, visualization tools, and more.

Manage system and derived requirements to guarantee compatibility with defined system architectures (DoDAF, SOA, etc.).
Develop and maintain systems engineering documentation (e.g., System Engineering Plans, Requirements Specifications, Interface Control Documents).
Assist in defining system requirements, functional requirements, and allocation of the same to hardware, software, facilities, and personnel components.
Coordinate and resolve action items from Configuration Control Board (CCB) meetings, design reviews, program reviews, and test reviews that require cross-team collaboration.
Generate alternative system concepts, physical architectures, and design solutions, and guide the technical direction for system development and integration.
Define methods, processes, and evaluation criteria for verifying systems, subsystems, and work products against their requirements.
Contribute to interface definition, design, and configuration changes while ensuring stakeholder buy-in.
Derive lower-level requirements from higher-level specifications, ensuring thoroughness and clarity for each system component.
Provide technical guidance on complex hardware/software integration, design trade-offs, and risk management processes through all development phases.
Establish formal processes to proactively control and manage changes to requirements, ensuring full traceability and stakeholder approval.
Plan and support verification efforts of new capabilities early in the development lifecycle to confirm compliance with established requirements.
Oversee the technical integrity of system baselines over time, updating them as changes are imposed during development, deployment, and operations.
Coordinate with system stakeholders to plan certification and accreditation processes (DoD C&A, etc.).
Develop system design solutions that meet performance standards, operational needs, and user expectations.

7 - 14+ years of systems engineering experience on medium-to-large programs or contracts (20-100 people).
Bachelor’s degree in System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or a related discipline.
- Five (5) additional years of relevant SE experience may be substituted for a Bachelor’s degree.
Active TS/SCI with Polygraph Clearance (required).
Experience with Jira, Confluence, or similar project management tools.
Familiarity with Agile frameworks (Scrum, etc.).

Proficiency with SysML tools: Cameo/MagicDraw, Rhapsody, or similar.
INCOSE ASEP or related systems engineering certifications.

BigBear.ai is a leading provider of AI-powered decision intelligence solutions for national security, supply chain management, and digital identity. Customers and partners rely on Bigbear.ai’s predictive analytics capabilities in highly complex, distributed, mission-based operating environments. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, BigBear.ai is a public company traded on the NYSE under the symbol BBAI. For more information, visit https://bigbear.ai/ and follow BigBear.ai on LinkedIn: @BigBear.ai and X: @BigBearai.

BigBear.ai is an Equal opportunity employer all protected groups, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.