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Systems Engineer III

DPP


Job Location:

Woodland Hills, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 8 September 2026 (5 hours ago)
Application Deadline: 6 December 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

DPP is seeking a Systems Engineer III for an opportunity with our client in the Aerospace and Defense Manufacturing industry.

Work location: Onsite in Woodland Hills CA
Duration: 11 months
Terms: W2 Contract
Work authorization: US Citizen; must be able to obtain/maintain a Secret security clearance

Position summary:

  • This role may be filled at a Principal or Senior level. The Systems Engineer III will have a strong understanding of requirements development test case development and verification and validation of those requirements.
  • The ideal candidate will be proficient with requirements technical baseline management via IBM Rational DOORS and act as a technical lead and point of contact to the Chief Engineer and customer.
Responsibilities:
  • Work with a broad customer base to identify unique requirements flow the requirements into design documentation and work with a diverse team to build and test those requirements.
  • Present to customers on the capabilities of current products performance analyses design information and requirements verification methods.
  • Generate review and manage multiple requirements sets that cover all aspects of both performance and nonperformance including mechanical interfaces electrical interfaces data requirements environmental requirements and reliability.
  • Awareness and responsiveness to contract milestones and deliverables.
  • Lead an Agile team to ensure the designs are sufficient to meet the system requirements.
  • Work with various Agile teams to ensure all requirements are verified through inspection analysis demonstration or test often by providing test and data reduction scripts.
  • Provide test directions to ensure production tests and troubleshooting tests are executed correctly and resulting data conforms to requirements.
Required qualifications Principal System Engineer III:
  • Bachelors of Science degree in STEM (Science Technology Engineering Math) discipline with 5 years of engineering experience OR Masters Science degree in STEM (Science Technology Engineering Math) discipline with 3 years of engineering experience OR PhD degree in STEM (Science Technology Engineering Math) discipline with 1 years of engineering experience
  • Experience with IBM Rational DOORS
  • Demonstrated success with:
    • Technical baseline management
    • Writing and updating DOORS requirements
    • Decomposing and deriving requirements based on customer specifications
  • Experience in System Engineering activities such as:
    • Software requirements development
    • Requirements development
    • Test Case Development
    • Verification and Validation i.e. experience running tests and documenting results
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills include:
    • Demonstrated experience presenting to internal and external stakeholders
    • Demonstrated experience communicating technical information e.g. requirements updates test plans integration test plans etc.
  • Demonstrated experience supporting test investigations and debugging efforts
  • Collaborating with cross-functional teams
  • Active DoD Secret clearance required at the time of application
  • Ability to work onsite full-time at Woodland Hills CA
Required qualifications Senior Principal System Engineer III:
  • Bachelors of Science degree in STEM (Science Technology Engineering Math) discipline with 8 years of engineering experience OR Masters Science degree in STEM (Science Technology Engineering Math) discipline with 6 years of engineering experience OR PhD degree in STEM (Science Technology Engineering Math) discipline with 4 years of engineering experience
  • Experience with IBM Rational DOORS
  • Demonstrated success with:
    • Technical baseline management
    • Writing and updating DOORS requirements
    • Decomposing and deriving requirements based on customer specifications
  • Experience in System Engineering activities such as:
    • Software requirements development
    • Requirements development
    • Test Case Development
    • Verification and Validation i.e. experience running tests and documenting results
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills include:
    • Demonstrated experience presenting to internal and external stakeholders
    • Demonstrated experience communicating technical information e.g. requirements updates test plans integration test plans etc...
  • Demonstrated experience supporting test investigations and debugging efforts
  • Collaborating with cross-functional teams
  • Active DoD Secret clearance required at the time of application
  • Ability to work onsite full-time at Woodland Hills CA
Preferred Qualifications:
  • Experience with the following interfaces:
    • MIL-STD-1553
    • Experience with ARINC-429
    • Experience with Ethernet
  • Experience working in an Agile engineering team
  • Experience with JIRA
  • Systems Engineering experience on large complex systems
  • Lab and system integration experience
  • Demonstrated experience with Model Based Systems Engineering and Cameo modeling (or equivalent)
  • Experience with ClearQuest / ClearCase

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DP Professionals (DPP) offers a range of compensation and benefits packages to our employees and their eligible dependents. DPP is a certified Woman-owned Small Business Enterprise (WBE and WOSB) with more than 25 years in the staffing industry. EOE/AA/V/D

Required Experience:

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