Location: Los Alamos, NM
Cap-Exempt H-1B Position — No lottery required
**What You Will Do** **This position will be filled at either the Scientist 1 or 2 level, depending on the skills of the selected candidate. Additional job responsibilities (outlined below) will be assigned if the candidate is hired at the higher level.** **Scientist 1 $96,600 - $158,000** As a Requirements Engineer in the Design & Engineering Standards (W-DES) group, you will serve as a technical integrator supporting multiple weapon systems (B61, W76, W78, W88, and W93). This role combines systems engineering, communication, and digital engineering to ensure that product and system requirements are rigorously developed, maintained, and verified throughout the system lifecycle. You will collaborate closely with system engineers, physicists, design leads, and national security partners such as the Department of Defense (DoD) and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). **Key Responsibilities:** - Elicit, analyze, and validate requirements from stakeholders, design teams, and national security partners (DoD, NNSA). - Develop and maintain structured requirements documentation, ensuring traceability between requirements, design intent, and verification evidence. - Apply configuration management principles to maintain controlled, versioned requirements baselines across programs. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams including physicists, system engineers, and design leads to translate technical concepts into measurable, verifiable requirements. - Conduct requirements reviews to ensure completeness, correctness, and alignment with design and safety objectives. - Use requirements management tools such as IBM DOORS, DOORS Next Gen, or equivalent platforms to manage and link requirement sets. - Support system verification and validation activities by coordinating requirement test plans and ensuring verification evidence is linked to specific requirements. - Communicate effectively across disciplines, facilitating stakeholder understanding of requirement scop