Senior Systems Engineer

We’re ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life—from advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more.

As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000+ engineers in 30 countries—we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing.

When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you’ll collaborate on some of the world’s toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow.

• Support full‑lifecycle development of advanced satellite systems, including requirements definition, system design, integration, testing, and operational planning.
• Translate mission objectives and technical constraints into structured system‑level requirements and ensure proper flow‑down to subsystems and components.
• Perform system architecture trades, high‑level design evaluations, and Model‑Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) analyses.
• Develop verification plans, traceability matrices, and test documentation to validate system performance and mission readiness.
• Coordinate closely with cross‑functional engineering teams to manage interfaces, resolve technical issues, and guide design decisions.
• Lead or support integration activities spanning spacecraft bus, payload, avionics, launch preparation, and mission operations.
• Contribute to long‑term product roadmap development, including design evolution, cost targets, and customization processes for new missions.
• Promote design reuse and process optimization to reduce cost, improve manufacturability, and enhance system reliability.

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline; Master’s degree preferred.
• 7–9+ years of experience in aerospace or complex hardware system development across concept design, manufacturing, integration, test, and operations.
• Strong understanding of spacecraft systems, including software, electrical power systems, data handling, communications, navigation, and attitude control.
• Experience developing and decomposing system requirements, performing verification and validation, and using requirements‑management tools.
• Familiarity with MBSE practices and SysML‑based modeling tools.
• Ability to drive multi‑disciplinary engineering activities and collaborate with diverse technical teams.
• Experience performing specialty engineering analyses (e.g., reliability, safety, maintainability, survivability, system security).
• Clear and concise communication skills with demonstrated ability to operate in fast‑moving, technically complex environments.
• U.S. citizenship required; ability to obtain and maintain a government security clearance.

ALTEN Technology is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our Policy is to extend opportunities to qualified applicants and employees on an equal basis regardless of an individual’s age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or veteran status.

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Compliance Notice: Alten USA is a federal contractor subject to the requirements of the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) and Executive Order 11246. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

Drug Screening Requirement: As a federal contractor, Alten USA maintains a drug-free workplace. All candidates selected for employment will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment drug screening as a condition of hire.