Requirements Engineer

Accountabilities: As a Requirements Engineer, you will connect mission stakeholders with technical delivery teams, ensuring that operational needs are accurately translated into requirements and actionable development priorities. Your responsibilities will include: Conduct structured interviews and workshops with federal law enforcement, investigative, forensic, and cyber organizations to capture mission needs, constraints, and priorities. Analyze mission workflows, organizational processes, and user challenges to identify inefficiencies, capability gaps, and opportunities for improvement. Develop clear and actionable requirements, capability decompositions, interface definitions, and mission-aligned workflow documentation. Collaborate with developers, analysts, forensic specialists, and mission users to refine, validate, and prioritize requirements throughout iterative development cycles. Recommend future capabilities, system enhancements, and integration strategies based on stakeholder feedback and mission analysis. Support system testing and validation by maintaining requirements traceability, contributing to test planning, and reviewing results against documented requirements. Help integrate new capabilities into operational environments while ensuring alignment with mission needs and operational constraints. Prepare structured analyses to support technical decisions, including capability gap assessments, trade studies, and feasibility evaluations. Contribute to project documentation and deliverables, ensuring timely completion and alignment with customer deadlines. Support and mentor team members in applying requirements-engineering best practices and structured analytical methods. Requirements The ideal candidate combines strong requirements-engineering expertise with stakeholder engagement and analytical skills, ideally gained in complex, mission-driven or government environments. Required qualifications include: Bachelor's degree in a relevant field and at least 5 years of experience in requirements engineering, business analysis, systems engineering, workflow analysis, or related technical or mission-support roles. Demonstrated ability to elicit, structure, analyze, and prioritize complex requirements across cross-functional environments. Experience conducting stakeholder interviews, workflow assessments, and capability gap analyses. Ability to translate operational and mission needs into technical specifications, interface requirements, and workflow documentation. Experience supporting development teams and contributing to end-to-end capability delivery. Experience researching and recommending technical or operational solutions within federal government environments. Familiarity with Agile or iterative development methodologies and incremental capability deployment. Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical and mission-related concepts to engineers, analysts, and operational stakeholders. U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Entry on Duty (EOD) suitability. Preferred qualifications include: Experience supporting federal law enforcement, homeland security, intelligence, or other mission-focused government environments. Experience contributing to test planning, requirements traceability, and verification or validation activities. Understanding of secure-system principles, data integrity requirements, and constraints associated with investigative or forensic applications. Experience preparing requirements documentation, capability gap analyses, workflow models, or integration plans. Familiarity with digital forensics, blockchain analysis concepts, investigative workflows, or cyber and technical mission environments. Benefits Annual salary range of $85,678.38–$200,993.63, depending on qualifications and experience. Generous employer cost-sharing for medical insurance covering employees and dependents. Dental insurance fully paid by the company for employees and dependents. Vision insurance fully paid by the company for employees and dependents. Short-term and long-term disability insurance fully paid by the company. 401(k) retirement plan with a generous company match and immediate 100% vesting. Generous paid leave and holiday package. Tuition and professional training reimbursement. Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) insurance. Opportunity to work on complex federal missions alongside a collaborative, multidisciplinary team. Temporary assignment expected to end in February 2027, with potential opportunities for follow-on work.