Systems Engineer II

Full-time Contract Position – Hagerstown, MD

Our Client delivers customer-focused operations and best-of-breed integrations in the aerospace and defense sectors. Through leading-edge technologies and transformative solutions, it has been honored as one of the most innovative U.S. companies in space, a Tier One Superior Supplier for the U.S. Air Force, and one of America’s fastest-growing corporations. The Mission Solutions and Technologies (MST) team also provides affordable, turn-key command/control, communications, integrated ISR, force protection, and security solutions worldwide. #EngineeringTheFuture

The Company

Our Client’s mission is to stay ahead of the curve, developing solutions today to tackle the challenges of tomorrow. With over 60 years of leadership, they have driven transformative change in the aerospace and defense industry. Their innovative solutions provide connected protection through advanced command, control, and communications platforms, along with capabilities in ISR, cyber, electromagnetic spectrum management, and more, ensuring national security across multiple domains. Dedicated to expanding the industrial base and delivering open architecture platforms, our client plays a crucial role in fostering competition, providing value, and accelerating innovation. Their ability to scale and commitment to open architecture set them apart in driving industry progress.

The Position

As a Systems Engineer, you will play a critical role in designing, developing, and improving advanced aerospace systems. This position involves researching, architecting, modeling, simulating, testing, and certifying complex products from concept to completion. You’ll collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to develop and refine system architectures, ensure seamless integration and verification, and drive innovation throughout the product lifecycle. Using cutting-edge tools and model-based systems engineering (MBSE) methods, you’ll help deliver reliable, high-performance solutions that meet aerospace and defense industry standards.

Duties & Responsibilities

Design, develop, and optimize system architectures for complex aerospace and defense products
Model, simulate, and test systems to validate performance, reliability, and compliance with requirements
Oversee system-level ownership across the entire product lifecycle—from concept through design, integration, and testing
Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to ensure seamless system integration and performance
Manage requirements through parsing, derivation, and allocation to ensure alignment with project goals
Identify and mitigate technical risks through proactive analysis and engineering best practices
Support Verification and Validation (V&V) activities to ensure products meet all specifications and safety standards
Utilize requirements management and system modeling tools such as DOORS, Rhapsody, NoMagic, or MATLAB
Apply Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) methodologies to improve design efficiency and traceability
Maintain detailed technical documentation and performance metrics throughout the development process

Supervisory Responsibilities

No immediate direct reports

Skills & Qualifications

Bachelor's of Science degree in Systems Engineering or related discipline and typically 2 or more years of relevant experience
Practical knowledge of engineering principles and practices
Experience working in multi-disciplinary design and development teams
Knowledge of requirements management, functional requirements parsing, derivation, and allocation; systems design, systems integration, technical risk identification and management strategies, and Verification and Validation (V&V) principles

Preferred Experience

Experience with requirements management and system modelling tools, such as DOORS, Rhapsody, NoMagic, MATLAB
Knowledge of industry standard mechanical design principles, to include, but not limited to requirements management, Model Based System Engineering (MBSE)
Experience or certification in INCOSE standards
Background in the Aerospace and Defense Industry
Exposure to baseline definition and maturation in a complex development setting, including the use of high impact trade studies and other measures
Understanding of establishing and tracking key Technical Performance Measurements (TPM)

Work Environment

On-site position located in Hagerstown, Maryland
This is a 6-month contract

Compensation

Position offers an hourly W2 Rate between $45 - $55, with additional benefits

Requirements

Because this client is a Federal Government Contractor performing services for the DoD, US Air Force, NASA and others, they do require US, Non-Dual Citizenship

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

None required

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

This company is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.