Systems Engineer III at Textron
Hill AFB, UT
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Aug 9, 2026
Hill AFB, UT
Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A systems engineering role at Textron Systems' Weapons Systems business area, based at Hill AFB in Utah, supporting the design, integration, and development of complex military systems. Day-to-day work involves system modeling, requirements decomposition, architecture development, trade analysis, and managing requirements traceability and risk across the full engineering lifecycle. Suits an experienced systems engineer comfortable with defense programs and cross-functional stakeholder coordination.
Mid level · 5+ years · Ogden-Clearfield, UT · Bachelor's required · Secret clearance · Full-time
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Why we read it this way (5)
The role is titled 'Systems Engineer III', which maps to a mid-level individual contributor band; the 5-year experience requirement and scope of responsibilities are consistent with a mid-level (not senior) classification.
No specific software tools are hard-gated in the requirements section. SysML/Model-Based Systems Engineering and DOORS are explicitly called out as 'optional areas' — listed under a secondary block prefaced with 'Expertise in one or more of the following optional areas will be useful.'
The posting requires an active Secret clearance with the ability to obtain SAP-level access. The hard gate is Secret; SAP is an additional aspiration, not a current requirement.
SOC classification is uncertain: Systems Engineering for defense hardware sits between 15-1299 (Computer Occupations, All Other, which BLS uses for systems engineers in computing contexts) and 15-1211 (Computer Systems Analysts). The role's focus on hardware/weapons systems architecture could also fall outside the 15-12xx family entirely, but 15-1299 is the closest available code.
Requires a Secret clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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