Design Assurance Systems Engineering Scientist
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Job overview
The Design Assurance Systems Engineering Scientist elicits systems scope and requirements from stakeholders, supports certification, and identifies evidence for Design Assurance objectives. The role contributes to safety analyses and reviews, Agile planning, engineering estimates, and evaluations including trade studies, reliability analysis, functional analysis, and risk assessments.
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Full job description
Elicit systems scope and requirements from stakeholders for use in systems designs, allocating and deriving requirements to support certificationConduct Functional Hazard Analysis (FHA) allocations and identify safety-critical system interfaces to define objectives for system safetyIdentify evidence supporting the achievement of Design Assurance (DA) levels and map to Design Assurance objectivesCommunicate work process, products, and results, including documentation, written reports, and briefs presented to stakeholdersParticipate in Agile process, backlog management, and project decomposition into components and actionable units of workProvide Design Assurance Engineering Analysis and DA Reviews support, including gap analysis based on the final Program Requirements Document (fPRD), Preliminary Hazard Analysis (PHA), and other safety artifactsPerform engineering estimates, guide project schedules, and identify dependenciesConduct engineering evaluations, such as trade studies, reliability analysis, functional analysis, risk analysis assessmentsOther related functions as assigned
How this job compares
Set against the 2,642 open Systems Engineering jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Texas median$129–206K/yr75 salary ranges
- US median$28–41/hr163 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 141 open Systems Engineering jobs in Texas and 2,642 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Texas
- L3Harris14 open
- UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN (this employer)10 open
- Lockheed Martin9 open
- Experience
- Systems Engineering postings that state a minimum ask for 7 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 4 to 10 years (2,091 postings).
- Education
- 939 of the 2,642 open Systems Engineering jobs (36%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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