SR Systems Engineer- SATCOM

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 SR Systems Engineer, you will support the technical planning, development, and integration of mission‑planning and systems‑engineering artifacts that advance program goals and operational outcomes. You will help shape requirements, architectures, interface definitions, and engineering products that ensure system capabilities are aligned, traceable, and technically sound across the broader system landscape. In this role, you will collaborate with cross‑functional teams, contribute to disciplined engineering processes, and ensure solutions remain consistent with program objectives and stakeholder priorities.

What you’ll do:

• Provide feedback and refinement for mission‑level specifications in coordination with the system integrator and engineering teams.
• Support development of requirements, architectures, use cases, technical analyses, interface definitions, and system‑level roadmaps.
• Define component‑level requirements derived from operational needs, system behaviors, and stakeholder priorities.
• Lead or support generation and implementation of Interface Control Documents (ICDs).
• Contribute to the creation of requirement‑verification artifacts for mission‑planning and component specifications.
• Work with data, AI/ML, software, and systems‑engineering teams to integrate required data sources, model inputs, outputs, assumptions, and validation methods.
• Identify technical risks, dependencies, integration challenges, sequencing concerns, and capability gaps across system‑engineering activities.
• Ensure systems‑engineering efforts remain aligned with program objectives, MBSE practices, CTO advanced analytics initiatives, and stakeholder needs.
• Support engineering activities related to ground systems and Agile‑based development workflows.

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 an active TS/SCI. The candidate must maintain the clearance
• Ability to lead systems‑engineering activities such as requirements development, architecture definition, interface specification, and technical planning.
• Ability to develop and interpret complex Interface Control Documents (ICDs) and support cross‑system interface integration.
• Ability to evaluate and address system‑level risks, dependencies, and integration challenges in multi‑component or distributed systems environments.
• Ability to collaborate with multi‑disciplinary teams including software, AI/ML, data, MBSE, verification, and integration engineering.
• Experience supporting systems‑engineering activities for ground‑system or mission‑system environments.
• Direct experience with an Agile software development lifecycle
  
  

Desired Qualifications:

• Familiarity with Model‑Based Systems Engineering tools or practices.
• Experience working in multi‑contractor or third‑party integration and test environments.
• Experience supporting Agile development workflows.
• Ability to prepare and present technical designs and recommendations to engineering stakeholders.

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