Systems Engineer II

Systems Engineer

Compensation Range: $85,000 - $115,000

Location: Aurora, CO (On-Site/Office)

Company Overview: Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees, we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation's toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don't look any further than Cornerstone Defense.

Job Responsibilities

Analyze and define how the system works creating use cases

Decompose requirements, define system interfaces and help determine how requirements will be validated and verified by the test team

Provide engineering support for the execution of a portion of the programs test program including test processes and baseline definition and test architecture design

Support regression testing across deliverable releases to the program baseline

Support and attend technical reviews and technical interchanges in support of the program

Basic Quals

Typically requires a Bachelor's Degree in Systems, Mechanical, Aerospace, or Electrical Engineering, or a related field and minimum 2+ years of prior relevant experience

Experience with systems engineering lifecycle, roles and functions, with specific experience in one or more of the following areas: Concept of Operations (ConOps) development, requirements definition and management, functional analysis or interface definition and control

Development experience on a government contract with experience in systems engineering

Experience with Agile principles, to include Agile systems engineering practices and understanding of Agile roles

Development experience in project domain (e.g., mission management ground systems, space-based ISR platforms)

Experience working in an Agile development environment and with Agile development tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, etc.)

Active TS/SCI Security clearance

Preferred Quals

Experience with MBSE tools (e.g., Cameo Systems Modeler)

Experience with requirements management in DOORS or other requirements databases

Good oral and written communication skills as well as good collaboration skills and the ability to work in a team environment