Systems Engineer: System Architecture and Capability Management

Job Description

Job Description

Systems Engineer: System Architecture and Capability Management

Capstone Research Corporation is seeking to expand our team. Capstone Research Corporation is headquartered in Huntsville Alabama. We are a customer-oriented engineering services company providing world class research and development support across the Department of Defense (DoD): Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Missile Defense Agency (MDA). Capstone offers 100% Company Provided Medical and Dental Insurance, Matching 401K, and Profit Sharing as part of our top-notch benefits package.

We are seeking an experienced Systems Engineer to lead architecture development, capability management, and technical baseline evolution for the Guam Defense (GDS). This role focuses on defining, integrating, and maintaining system-level and cross-system requirements while supporting capability-based planning and test objective development across the GDS enterprise.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead development and maintenance of the GDS architecture, ensuring alignment with joint operational concepts, capability requirements, and interoperability standards.
• Manage the GDS capability portfolio and develop a structured capability roadmap that informs future system evolution and acquisition planning.
• Develop, decompose, and allocate system-of-systems (SoS) requirements to individual programs and elements, ensuring traceability across the architecture and technical baseline.
• Establish and maintain the GDS technical baseline, integrating updates from participating programs and Service components.
• Support definition and prioritization of test objectives for developmental, operational, and joint-level events to validate SoS-level capabilities and performance.
• Conduct architecture trades, capability gap analyses, and technical risk assessments to support programmatic decisions.
• Coordinate with mission engineering, modeling and simulation, and test teams to ensure alignment between architecture products, requirements, and test objectives.
• Support Integrated Product Teams (IPTs), architecture reviews, and capability synchronization meetings across joint stakeholders.
• Provide expert technical input to acquisition, integration, and fielding strategies that impact the GDS.

Requirements:

• Experience with Guam Defense systems and cross-domain mission integration.
• Understanding of capability-based planning, technical baseline management, and configuration control processes.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with ability to work effectively across multi-agency teams.
• Demonstrated ability to translate operational needs into technical requirements and architecture products.
• Experience supporting technical reviews, risk assessments, and capability portfolio synchronization events.