Senior Requirements Engineer

Peraton

$146K — $234K *
Aerospace & Defense
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Associates degree with 14+ years or relevant Bachelor's/Master's/Ph.D. degree with corresponding years of experience in Systems Engineering.
  • Minimum Secret clearance with ability to upgrade to TS/SCI is required.
  • Experience in requirements engineering within complex software/system-of-systems environments.
  • Expertise in deriving and documenting system and component requirements from mission needs or MBSE models.
  • Proven ability to review or create system specifications and digital engineering artifacts.
  • Knowledge of requirements management tools and MBSE modeling environments.
  • Experience in verification planning and creating requirement verification artifacts.

Responsibilities

  • Provide feedback and refine the Mission Planning Specification alongside the System Integrator and architecture teams.
  • Derive component-level specifications from higher-level mission requirements and MBSE models.
  • Ensure requirements are captured, traceable, and aligned with system architecture and model behavior.
  • Create requirement verification artifacts to establish clear acceptance criteria for all mission planning specifications.
  • Collaborate with MBSE teams to validate system behavior and interfaces against requirements.
  • Engage in technical reviews and requirement walkthroughs across engineering disciplines.

Benefits

  • Heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for you and your dependents.
  • 25 days of accrued PTO annually, capped generously.
  • Eligibility to participate in an attractive bonus plan.
Full Job Description
Responsibilities

Peraton is delivering advanced mission planning, digital engineering, and command‑and‑control capabilities supporting the U.S. Government’s space communications enterprise. Our team uses modern MBSE practices to translate mission needs into precise, traceable, and verifiable technical requirements across a complex, multi‑system environment.

 

As a Senior Requirements Engineer, you will collaborate closely with system integrators, architects, and MBSE teams to define, refine, and document mission planning and component-level specifications. You will ensure requirements are clear, consistent, and verifiable while contributing to the creation of authoritative digital engineering artifacts that drive system design and implementation.

 

What you’ll do:

  • Provide feedback, clarification, and refinement of the Mission Planning Specification in coordination with the System Integrator and architecture teams.
  • Derive component‑level specifications from mission‑level requirements and from behaviors represented in the MBSE model.
  • Ensure requirements are properly captured, traceable, and aligned with system architecture, interfaces, and model behavior.
  • Support creation of requirement verification artifacts for all mission planning and component-level requirements, ensuring verifiable acceptance criteria.
  • Collaborate with MBSE practitioners to validate that system behavior, interfaces, and architectures accurately reflect requirement intent.
  • Participate in technical reviews, requirement walkthroughs, and traceability assessments across engineering disciplines.
Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

  • Associates degree and 14+ years of experience in a Systems Engineering related field; OR bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Cloud Computing, or related field and 12+ years of experience in a Systems Engineering related field; OR a master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Cloud Computing, or related field and 10+ years of experience in a systems engineering related field; OR a Ph.D. and 7+ years of experience. Additional four (4) years of relevant experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.
  • This position requires the candidate possess a minimum of Secret clearance with ability to upgrade to TS/SCI. The candidate must maintain the clearance
  • Experience performing requirements engineering or systems engineering in a complex software or system-of-systems environment.
  • Ability to derive, decompose, and document system and component requirements based on mission needs, architecture definitions, or MBSE models.
  • Experience reviewing or developing system specifications, interface definitions, or digital engineering artifacts.
  • Knowledge of requirements management tools or MBSE modeling environments used to capture requirement behavior, architecture, or traceability.
  • Experience supporting verification planning, including creation of requirement verification methods, acceptance criteria, or verification artifacts.
  • Ability to interpret system models, behavior diagrams, and architecture views to ensure alignment between requirements and system representation.

Desired Qualifications:

  • Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate across engineering, architecture, and integration teams.
  • Ability to analyze complex requirements and support disciplined configuration control and traceability.
  • Strong organizational and problem‑solving skills with the ability to prioritize work in a multi‑disciplinary environment.

Benefits:

Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees working on this critical National Security program, which include heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for you and your dependents, 25 days of PTO accrued annually up to a generous PTO cap and eligible to participate in an attractive bonus plan

Target Salary Range$146,000 - $234,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual’s experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

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