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# Systems Engineer Sr - E3

- **Company:** Lockheed Martin
- **Location:** Littleton, CO, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $95,900.0 - $178,100.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Systems Engineering, Requirements Traceability
- **Published:** September 1, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/721A8A00258844AEBA6D320CC6BDFF11/job/

## About the Role

* Experience as a Systems Engineer

 * Experience developing, deriving, and/or verifying requirements

 * Experience performing requirement traceability gap analysis

 * Demonstrated history of applying core systems engineering principles and processes

 * Eligibility to obtain a DoD Secret Security Clearance - U.S. Citizenship is required

Desired Skills

 * 4+ years experience in Systems Engineering

 * ABET Accredited Bachelor's degree in engineering field (Electrical Engineering is strongly preferred)

 * Experience as a systems engineer executing a missile or hypersonics development program

 * Experience achieving a successful flight test

 * Experience writing requirements specifications and verifying requirements

 * Proficient at DOORS

 * Experience contributing to major milestone reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR)

 * Experience developing PowerPoint slides and formally briefing customers and executives

 * Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders

 * Active or Current DoD Secret Security Clearance

## Description

The Hypersonics Advanced Programs team is looking for a Systems Engineer - Requirements and Verification Engineer on the NeXt generation Glide Body (NXGB) team for a rapid design to flight test project. In this role, you will report to the Systems Engineering Manager. Your responsibilities may include:

 * Derive requirements and interfaces and support specification development in DOORS

 * Be accountable for developing, updating, coordinating, and supporting verification of a subsystem requirement specification

 * Support the full life cycle of assigned subsystems or components all the way through development, test, analysis, verification, and flight test

 * Support assessments of key performance parameters, technical performance measures, and requirement compliance

 * Support formal system design reviews

 * Support interface definition and integration of subsystems and components across the broader system

 * Participate in interdisciplinary engineering efforts as part of a hypersonic development project, necessitating adaptability and flexibility in response to evolving program requirements and timelines across geographically dispersed locations

 * Use your excellent communication skills and self-motivating drive to work across Lockheed Martin business areas to progress towards a common goal


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