Systems Engineer - Power & Energy Systems

About the role

• Establish the MBSE baseline. Deliver a SysML architecture for naval power systems that serves as the authoritative source of truth for requirements traceability, interface definitions, and design margins across the program.

• Advance SE applications for naval ship design and acquisition. Identify and prototype systems engineering methods (e.g., model-based requirements management, digital thread integration, trade space analysis) that improve design quality and acquisition decision-making across the naval ship design lifecycle, from concept development through contract award.

• Accelerate the SE workflow. Build and deploy SE tooling and automation that demonstrably reduce design-decision cycle time (e.g., trade study turnaround, requirements change impact analysis), with measurable before/after benchmarks.

• Enable warfighting design-space exploration. Deliver integrated, model-based decision support capability that allows notional design teams to evaluate power system design options against operational mission thread performance.

What you'll do

• Apply systems thinking frameworks to decompose complex naval power requirements, trace mission-level warfighting needs to physical system constraints, and identify second-order effects across shipboard power, propulsion, and combat system interfaces

• Develop and maintain system architectures for naval power systems using MBSE methodologies, ensuring full requirements traceability from operational concept through implementation and sustainment

• Build and manage SysML models (i.e., requirements, functional, behavioral, and parametric diagrams) that capture mission threads, interface control definitions, operational modes, and power system design margins

• Define integration requirements, data exchange standards, and interoperability requirements across digital twin representations of shipboard power systems, supporting model-to-hardware correlation and design-space exploration

• Design test and evaluation strategies that validate model predictions against measured system performance, including T&E planning, evaluation criteria definition, data collection architecture, and results analysis

• Develop and maintain SE tooling, workflows, and automation that advance the digital engineering strategy, including digital thread continuity, model-based trade study execution, and decision support dashboards for design and program reviews

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including electrical engineers, digital twin engineers, and software engineers

• Serve as a technical authority for MBSE and related methodologies

• Identify and implement innovative technologies, tools, and methodologies

Required Qualifications

• Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain a DoW Secret Clearance

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering related discipline

• 5+ years of demonstrated experience in systems engineering applications for system design or operations

• 3+ years of demonstrated experience in model-based systems engineering applications for system design or operations

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to produce clear technical reports and give concise briefings to senior military and executive stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters or PhD in systems engineering or a related technical discipline

• 5+ years of professional experience in systems engineering for naval machinery or power systems

• Experience building system of systems models utilizing Unified Architecture Framework (UAF) or Mission Engineering frameworks

• Practical knowledge of integrated power systems, power conversion, energy storage, and electrical distribution technologies

• Certifications relevant to systems engineering such as CSEP (Certified Systems Engineering Professional) or ESEP (Expert Systems Engineering Professional)

• Certifications relevant to model based systems engineering such as OMG OCSMP (OMG Certified Systems Modeling Professional), DAU Digital Engineering, or DAU SPRDE (Systems Planning, Research, Development, & Engineering)