Systems Engineer III

The Systems Engineer’s role is to provide technical oversight to engineering teams developing aerospace and flight worthy structures, mechanisms, mechanical products and systems. The Systems Engineer III is expected to contribute to product maturation by driving technical planning and execution, organizing and coordinating program-wide technical activities, documenting and reporting results, and ensuring the end product meets all applicable requirements.

About Us

Karman Space & Defense provides concept-to-production solutions for mission-critical systems on spacecraft, launch vehicles, missiles, hypersonics, and integrated defense systems. We believe that solving the industry’s most complex and mission-critical challenges requires relentless determination and a willingness to push the boundaries of possibility. Karman Space & Defense brings to bear unparalleled production capabilities, unmatched engineering expertise, and unflinching analysis to render the impossible, possible.

Compensation & Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Company Paid Life Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Paid Holidays
• Tuition Reimbursement*

• Contributes program-level technical oversight to ensure the end product meets all applicable requirements
• Ensures balanced emphasis on engineering design, analysis, and testing to produce a robust design
• Drives system level architectural decisions by modeling system level behavior and assisting with requirement decomposition.
• Verifies and documents system compliance to requirements
• Drives test plan development to validate system performance
• Supports development of engineering reports and presentations
• Supports development of interface control drawings and interface description documents

• Providing systems engineering support during the proposal phase, including compliance matrix reviews of the Statement of Work (SOW) and customer performance specifications, and providing ROM estimates for Systems Engineering labor.
• Experience with DOORS Next Generation (DNG) and Jazz Team Server (JTS) Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM) to capture requirements, ensure traceability, and manage revisions/configuration control.
• Performing Concept of Operations (ConOps) to decompose customer requirements and define mission environments and system use cases.
• Decomposing system-level requirements into subsystem and component-level requirements for military, space, or aerospace applications.
• Experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and decomposing complex systems using Block Definition Diagrams (BDD) and Internal Block Diagrams (IBD) to identify system/subsystem interfaces.
• Conducting system architecture trade studies to assess design solutions based on performance, cost, and weight, and ensuring solutions meet minimum requirements.
• Leading program risk management, including documenting risks, hosting risk
• Working with the Verification Compliance Review Matrix (VCRM) process, ensuring verifiable requirements are traceable to test and qualification plans.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams (software, hardware, etc.) to ensure alignment of system requirements and solutions.
• Experience with system safety processes, including FMECA, fault-tree analysis, and designing for safety-critical systems.
• Knowledge of regulatory/certification processes, including compliance with NASA, FAA, or DoD standards for aerospace, space, or defense systems.

• B.S. or M.S. Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or equivalent
• Typically possesses 4-7 years aerospace and/or defense experience
• Experience with development of mechanical systems and structures, electronics, electrical cabling, system integration and qualification testing
• Proficiency with general aerospace engineering knowledge including structural analysis, FEA, physics-based modeling, dynamics / kinematics, advanced high-strength materials, design and test
• Exemplifies technical leadership with demonstrated ability to develop, plan and execute multidisciplinary projects.
• Must be a U.S. citizen and able to obtain a DoD SECRET clearance

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities. The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.

Karman is committed to equal employment opportunity. We will not discriminate against employees or applicants for employment on any legally recognized basis (“protected class”) including, but not limited to race; color; religion; genetic information; national origin; sex; pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions; age; disability; citizenship status; uniform servicemember status; or any other protected class under federal, state, or local law. Our management is dedicated to ensuring the fulfillment of this policy with respect to hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, termination, recruitment advertising, pay, and other forms of compensation, training, and general treatment during employment.