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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Systems Engineer - **Company:** ACS - - **Location:** Austin, TX, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Internship / Graduate position - **Skills:** Data Analysis, Systems Engineering, Requirements Management, Requirements Traceability, Software Requirements Analysis, Systems Integration, Jama (Software), Reliability of Systems - **Published:** October 20, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/16_3c2fec186 ## About the Role * Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering or a related technical field. * We hire across levels, and experience expectations scale accordingly - from interns and new grads (relevant coursework, projects, or prior internships) through senior engineers (roughly 3+ years in systems engineering, requirements management, verification planning, or multidisciplinary product development). * Experience deriving and writing clear, testable requirements from first principles - starting from mission needs, physics, and constraints - and defining practical verification approaches. * Ability to perform engineering analysis (modeling, simulation, margin/budget analysis, or quantitative data analysis) to define requirements and evaluate whether they are met. * Strong understanding of system integration across hardware and software, including the challenges of cross-functional technical ownership. * Ability to evaluate test results, engineering analyses, and other technical evidence against requirement intent. * Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to align teams around clear technical expectations. * Comfort operating in a fast-paced environment with incomplete information, changing priorities, and high ownership. * Experience working across mechanical, electrical, software, and test teams to drive technical closure. You'll Stand Out: * Strong systems thinking with the ability to see where interfaces, assumptions, or missing requirements are likely to create downstream problems. * A track record of turning ambiguous technical goals into structured requirements, verification plans, and closure criteria. * A strong bias toward automation - building scripts or tooling to automate requirements traceability, verification tracking, data analysis, and evidence generation instead of doing it by hand. * Comfort pushing for clarity when ownership, pass/fail criteria, or verification evidence is vague. * Prior experience qualifying defense, aerospace, and/or safety-critical applications. * Experience with requirements management in JAMA or DOORS. * A bias toward technical rigor without becoming overly process-heavy. * Good judgment about how much structure is needed to keep fast-moving engineering work aligned and accountable. ## Description You'll join Allen Control Systems' Systems team - one team, three tracks (Systems, Systems Test, and Systems Reliability) reporting to the Director of Systems Engineering. We work cross-functionally across mechanical, electrical, software, controls, test, and operations to build ACS's autonomous weapon platforms, including Bullfrog., We are looking for a Systems Engineer to join our team and help architect, define, and mature our next-generation autonomous weapon platforms. In this role, you will turn high-level mission and product objectives into clear requirements, interfaces, verification plans, and technical decisions that guide development across hardware and software. You will work cross-functionally with design, controls, software, test, and operations teams to drive alignment, manage system-level tradeoffs, and ensure the overall system performs as intended. The ideal candidate is technically rigorous, highly collaborative, and excited to bring structure and clarity to complex, fast-moving engineering programs., * Staff Engineer * Senior Staff Engineer Your title and level will be determined based on your experience, skills, and the scope of responsibility appropriate for the role. What You'll Do: * Own the full requirements management and verification process for complex autonomous systems, from requirement definition through verification closure. * Derive system and subsystem requirements from first principles - reasoning up from mission objectives, physics, and operating constraints rather than inheriting or copying prior requirements - and express them as clear, testable statements. * Define verification strategies, methods, and pass/fail criteria before testing begins, and ensure each requirement has an explicit path to closure. * Drive requirement decomposition, traceability, and alignment across mechanical, electrical, software, controls, and operations teams. * Work closely with test and design engineers to ensure verification activities produce usable evidence and defensible engineering conclusions. * Identify gaps in requirements, verification coverage, and technical ownership early, and drive cross-functional resolution before they become program risks. * Review test results, engineering analyses, and system behavior to determine whether requirements have been satisfied or need refinement. * Help structure design reviews, verification reviews, and technical decision-making around clear evidence rather than informal status. * Support system integration and issue triage by connecting observed behavior back to system requirements and expected behavior. * Own the engineering analysis behind requirements and decisions - modeling, simulation, margin and budget analysis, and quantitative data analysis - so requirements, pass/fail thresholds, and trade-offs are grounded in numbers rather than assumption. * Manage technical risks and conduct engineering trade studies, using analysis to weigh options and justify the chosen direction. * Develop Operations and Maintenance manuals to enforce continuous improvement and align requirements with design processes. * Raise the bar on technical rigor by ensuring the team knows what must be proven, how it will be proven, and what evidence counts as success.