About Volant Partners

Volant Partners provides business and engineering consulting services to companies across the United States. We thrive by solving complex problems with a focus on regulated industries. We best serve our customers by attracting and retaining the very best consultants. Consequently, we have structured ourselves as an employee-owned company. Volant Partners was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Job Description

Volant Partners, Inc is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer with strong systems engineering and technical background to assist our clients with the development and deployment of their products and hardware. Responsibilities will vary, but the selected candidate will contribute to areas such as managing new product HLSR, requirement modification and verification activities.

Successful candidates will use their deep knowledge in systems engineering combined with their great sense of organizational skills to successfully manage complex projects and drive results. We are looking for self-starters and decision makers that are comfortable in new situations where success is dependent on quickly understanding client challenges and addressing them.

This individual must have excellent communication skills (written, verbal, and presentation) and be able to communicate effectively with different engineering disciplines, project and client leadership.

This position will be a hybrid of remote (working from home) and onsite work, and we are seeking candidates in the greater Seattle area or candidates who are willing to relocate to the Seattle area.

Typical Responsibilities

• Author technical specifications
• Requirement elicitation, decomposition
• Requirement allocation and tracking
• Hardware Integration and verification activities
• Participate in processes improvement

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in engineering, mathematics, electrical, computer science or related technical course of study
• Minimum of 5+ years of engineering or consulting experience
• A consultative mindset and strong communication skills (verbal, written, and presentations) to work directly with client multidisciplinary teams to solve problems and advance client's objectives
• Proven systems engineering and problem-solving skills in an integrated team environment
• Proven track record of managing time and resources to meet deadlines
• Ability to define high level requirements and understand the implications and impacts to low level SW specifications
• Ability to make decisions and execute to the plan
• Experience with requirements development, management and traceability
• General knowledge of other engineering disciplines and how they relate to systems engineering
• Experience developing and decomposing system and subsystem requirements
• Ability to earn the trust of clients and influence leadership and key technical resources
• Maintains positive and professional relationships and promotes an environment of teaming and collaboration in a diverse work environment
• Available to be onsite at client facilities as needed
• Must be a US Person - U.S. citizen, U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working in regulated industries such as defense, aerospace

Experience working in a consulting or engineering services company

Technical education or experience in space vehicle engineering disciplines is desirable

Experience with product development life cycle

Experience using industry leading requirements management tools (DOORS Classic/DNG, JAMA etc.)

Experience using Confluence and JIRA

Knowledge of AS