Systems Engineer

The Senior Systems Engineer plays a key role in developing and delivering quality solutions by working closely with stakeholders and cross-functional teams throughout the product lifecycle, this position translates business, regulatory, customer, and operational needs into clear product context, requirements, functional and logical design, interfaces, engineering decisions, and verification and validation expectations. The ideal candidate brings a strong systems-thinking mindset, collaborates effectively across disciplines, and uses objective evidence to balance product outcomes, technical risk, quality, and delivery needs.

Some of the impactful contributions you’ll make as MISO’s Senior Systems Engineer include:

• Translate business, regulatory, customer, and operational needs into clear, feasible, verifiable, and traceable product requirements and acceptance expectations.
• Establish product context, boundaries, operational scenarios, assumptions, constraints, dependencies, and affected capabilities.
• Develop technology-independent product functional and logical designs that define expected behavior, functions, interactions, information flows, interfaces, and responsibility allocation.
• Define product verification and validation needs, methods, evidence expectations, coverage criteria, and technical-readiness inputs.
• Lead product-level engineering decision analysis and trade studies by documenting alternatives, evaluation criteria, evidence, assumptions, impacts, and technical risks.
• Perform product change and impact analysis across requirements, architecture, interfaces, data, processes, dependencies, verification evidence, and operations.
• Identify and manage product technical risks, failure modes, and quality attributes, including security, reliability, resilience, maintainability, usability, performance, and supportability.
• Maintain product requirements, functional and logical models, interface definitions, traceability, decisions, and other authoritative engineering baselines.
• Assess requirements quality, design alignment, verification coverage, evidence sufficiency, unresolved gaps, and residual technical risk to support accountable readiness decisions.
• Mentor less-experienced engineers and improve engineering methods, tools, standards, templates, training, and reusable practices.

You’ll need the following skills to be successful as our Senior Systems Engineer:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
• Minimum of 3 years of relevant systems engineering experience applying engineering practices across product or system lifecycle activities such as context definition, requirements, design, integration, verification, and validation.
• Strong understanding of requirements development, allocation, decomposition, quality assessment, traceability, and lifecycle management.
• Knowledge of functional and logical design, system modeling, information flows, and interface management in complex technical environments.
• Experience with verification and validation planning, requirement coverage assessment, objective evidence, technical-risk evaluation, and readiness recommendations.
• Ability to facilitate structured trade studies, evaluate alternatives, analyze change impacts, and communicate evidence-based engineering recommendations.
• Strong problem-solving skills, including systems thinking, failure-mode analysis, root-cause analysis, troubleshooting, and resolution of ambiguous or complex technical issues.
• Familiarity with engineering documentation, quality practices, and tools such as IBM DOORS Next, Cameo, etc.
• Certified as a Systems Engineer by the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) preferred.

Appropriate level will be determined based upon experience and knowledge.

Transformative innovation is happening in the electric industry, from digitalizing homes and distributed resources to renewable energy and an ever-changing grid. MISO manages the electricity superhighway in the Central U.S. and through use of groundbreaking research and advanced technology, our highly skilled employees ensure power flows reliably to 45 million Americans. Operating the electricity grid, running a robust energy market, planning for a bright future – it’s what our immensely hardworking and dedicated team does every day.

The base salary compensation range being offered for this role is $131,000 - $156,000 USD annually. Base salary range for this position is included in accordance with requirements of various state/local pay transparency legislation. Please note that salaries may vary for different individuals in the same role based on several factors, including but not limited to location of the role, individual competencies, education/professional certifications, and qualifications/experience.

Position is also eligible for an annual bonus if individual performance and company objectives are met. At MISO we offer a comprehensive benefits package, including 401k, vacation, sick and safe time, available on your first day of employment.

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