
Senior Requirements Engineer- MBSE
Required skills
- Secret clearance
- TS/SCI
- complex software
- system-of-systems environment
- mission needs
- architecture definitions
- MBSE models
- system specifications
- interface definitions
- digital engineering artifacts
Nice to have
- communication skills
- architecture
- integration teams
- complex requirements
- disciplined configuration control
- traceability
Role summary
Peraton is seeking a Senior Requirements Engineer with expertise in Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) to support the U.S. Government’s space communications enterprise. This role involves defining, refining, and documenting mission planning and component-level specifications, ensuring requirements are clear, consistent, traceable, and verifiable. You will collaborate with system integrators, architects, and MBSE teams, derive specifications from mission needs and MBSE models, and support the creation of digital engineering artifacts. The position requires a minimum of 7 years of experience in requirements engineering or systems engineering within complex environments and a Secret clearance, with the ability to upgrade to TS/SCI.
Peraton Overview
Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.
Responsibilities
Peraton is delivering advanced mission planning, digital engineering, and command‑and‑control capabilities supporting the U.S. Government’s space communications enterprise. Our team uses modern MBSE practices to translate mission needs into precise, traceable, and verifiable technical requirements across a complex, multi‑system environment.
As a Senior Requirements Engineer, you will collaborate closely with system integrators, architects, and MBSE teams to define, refine, and document mission planning and component-level specifications. You will ensure requirements are clear, consistent, and verifiable while contributing to the creation of authoritative digital engineering artifacts that drive system design and implementation.
What you’ll do:
- Provide feedback, clarification, and refinement of the Mission Planning Specification in coordination with the System Integrator and architecture teams.
- Derive component‑level specifications from mission‑level requirements and from behaviors represented in the MBSE model.
- Ensure requirements are properly captured, traceable, and aligned with system architecture, interfaces, and model behavior.
- Support creation of requirement verification artifacts for all mission planning and component-level requirements, ensuring verifiable acceptance criteria.
- Collaborate with MBSE practitioners to validate that system behavior, interfaces, and architectures accurately reflect requirement intent.
- Participate in technical reviews, requirement walkthroughs, and traceability assessments across engineering disciplines.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Minimum of 12 years with BS/BA; Minimum of 10 years with MS/MA; Minimum of 7 years with Ph.D. Additional four (4) years of relevant experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.
- This position requires the candidate possess a minimum of Secret clearance with ability to upgrade to TS/SCI. The candidate must maintain the clearance
- Experience performing requirements engineering or systems engineering in a complex software or system-of-systems environment.
- Ability to derive, decompose, and document system and component requirements based on mission needs, architecture definitions, or MBSE models.
- Experience reviewing or developing system specifications, interface definitions, or digital engineering artifacts.
- Knowledge of requirements management tools or MBSE modeling environments used to capture requirement behavior, architecture, or traceability.
- Experience supporting verification planning, including creation of requirement verification methods, acceptance criteria, or verification artifacts.
- Ability to interpret system models, behavior diagrams, and architecture views to ensure alignment between requirements and system representation.
Desired Qualifications:
- Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate across engineering, architecture, and integration teams.
- Ability to analyze complex requirements and support disciplined configuration control and traceability.
- Strong organizational and problem‑solving skills with the ability to prioritize work in a multi‑disciplinary environment.
Benefits:
Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees working on this critical National Security program, which include heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for you and your dependents, 25 days of PTO accrued annually up to a generous PTO cap and eligible to participate in an attractive bonus plan
Target Salary Range
$135,000 - $216,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual’s experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.Benefits Statement
Peraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, health savings account, short/long term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off (PTO) for vacation, and company paid holidays. A full listing of available benefits can be viewed at https://www.careers.peraton.com/benefits.

