Requirements Verification & Validation Engineer

Peraton Overview

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Responsibilities

Peraton is seeking an experienced Requirements Verification & Validation (V&V) Engineer within our Brand New Air Traffic Control System (BNATCS) Architecture and Systems Engineering group to perform and support V&V activities that demonstrate requirements compliance across a large-scale federal program. As a key contributor on a multi-vendor systems integrator program, you will work alongside the lead systems engineer and broader engineering team to ensure that the integrated system — spanning hardware, software, and system-of-systems components assembled from independently developed vendor, subcontractor, and custom solutions — satisfies the full requirements baseline as a unified whole. Where the Requirements Traceability & Integration Engineer defines and owns the baseline, this role proves compliance against it — closing every requirement with objective, auditable evidence. 

You will be part of a team responsible for system-of-systems integration, requirements traceability and integrity across the program, V&V support, and the development of program-wide standards and templates. This is a hands-on senior engineering role — you will be expected to own assigned tasks, operate independently, and produce high-quality V&V artifacts and results. You will bring both strategic thinking and hands-on engineering judgment to the role — contributing to verification planning, method definition, evidence assessment, and compliance determination. You may also lead V&V activities when the situation calls for it. 

This position requires full-time, on-site presence in Herndon, VA.  

Key Responsibilities 

• Contribute to the development and maintenance of the V&V Plan, standards, procedures, and templates — defining methods (test, analysis, inspection, demonstration), success criteria, and verification event mappings across internal teams, subcontractors, and vendors 

• Define and apply verification methods and acceptable evidence criteria for requirements in the integrated baseline, assessing each requirement for verifiability before verification planning begins 

• Define the multi-tier verification approach — establishing verification standards at component, integration, and system/operational levels, including procedures, negative testing, boundary conditions, and fault injection 

• Conduct requirements-based verification coverage analysis to identify gaps, untested requirements, and residual risk; evaluate and formally close verification evidence against requirements and document closure rationale in the VCRM 

• Support integration verification events — integration test, system test, regression test, and formal qualification — ensuring procedures are sound, evidence meets compliance standards, and components are verified against the correct requirements 

• Plan and support validation activities demonstrating the integrated system meets its intended mission and operational needs; develop operational validation scenarios including mission thread execution and stress cases 

• Assess residual risk after verification closure — identifying requirements with marginal evidence, verification uncertainty, or insufficient operational coverage 

• Review and assess vendor and subcontractor V&V artifacts — test reports, analysis results, inspection records, and demonstration evidence — for sufficiency, credibility, and compliance; maintain the VCRM linking every requirement to its method, event, responsible party, and closure status 

• Generate V&V metrics and reports — verification progress, closure rates, open actions, residual risk, and validation readiness — for program leadership and government stakeholders; ensure closure documentation is audit-ready for FCA/PCA 

• Collaborate with the Requirements Traceability & Integration Engineer and broader program team — including test engineers, cybersecurity teams, architects across enterprise, solutions, software, and cloud disciplines, quality assurance, workstream leads, and other program stakeholders — to ensure the full requirements baseline, including enterprise architecture artifacts and all requirement types, is verifiable, traceability supports verification planning, and requirements changes trigger timely re-verification 

• Interface with both internal program stakeholders and external government customers to communicate V&V status, present compliance determinations, and drive alignment on open verification issues 

• Contribute to the program's digital twin initiative by defining V&V approaches for model-based and simulation-based verification, establishing evidence standards for digital twin environments, and ensuring model-generated evidence is traceable in the VCRM 

• Participate in architecture and design reviews (SRR, SDR, PDR, CDR, TRR) to assess verification feasibility, method adequacy, and evidence sufficiency; translate V&V results and residual risk into clear guidance for leadership and mentor junior V&V staff 

Qualifications

Required Qualifications 

• US Citizenship
• Public Trust Clearance — Ability to Obtain and Maintain 

• 15+ years of experience in verification and validation, systems engineering, or quality assurance within large-scale programs 

• Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field (or 4 additional years of relevant experience in lieu of degree) 

• Demonstrated expertise in V&V within a systems integrator environment — with the engineering judgment to independently assess evidence sufficiency, determine compliance, and define verification standards across multi-vendor, multi-technology integrated solutions spanning hardware, software, and system-of-systems 

• Deep expertise in V&V methodology — verification planning, method selection (test, analysis, inspection, demonstration), acceptable evidence definition, success criteria, and compliance determination — applied to complex system-of-systems, mission-critical, or enterprise-scale environments 

• Strong understanding of the full systems engineering lifecycle from mission-level concept through system, subsystem, and component-level requirements, including the V&V activities and artifacts required at each formal review milestone (SRR, SDR, PDR, CDR, TRR, FCA/PCA) 

• Proven experience building and maintaining VCRMs, performing requirements-based verification coverage analysis, and resolving verification gaps and conflicts across organizational and vendor boundaries in multi-contractor environments 

• Strong command of requirements management tools — IBM DOORS, DOORS Next, Jama Connect, or equivalent — for requirements-to-verification traceability and coverage analysis; familiarity with Jama Connect is particularly relevant to this program 

• Hands-on experience assessing vendor and subcontractor verification evidence for sufficiency, credibility, and compliance; experience planning and executing validation activities that demonstrate operational mission readiness beyond individual requirement compliance 

• Experience supporting federal or DoD programs with complex multi-contractor V&V coordination challenges in mission-critical or safety-critical environments where verification rigor directly impacts operational reliability 

• Working knowledge of federal frameworks (NIST, FedRAMP, RMF) as they generate verification obligations and security assessment requirements 

• Familiarity with model-based and simulation-based verification concepts — understanding how digital twin environments, SysML/UAF models, or simulation outputs can serve as credible, auditable verification evidence and how that evidence is traced to requirements 

• Familiarity with ITSM and configuration management workflows and how V&V activities align within them; ITIL certification is a plus but not required 

• Proven ability to collaborate across systems engineering, software development, test, cybersecurity, and operations teams 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Prior experience with V&V for air traffic management ground systems, NAS infrastructure, FAA automation systems, or safety-critical ground-based systems, including familiarity with applicable standards such as RTCA DO-278A or FAA ATC system safety requirements 

• Background in systems integration V&V on large federal or defense programs — verifying integrated systems spanning hardware, software, and system-of-systems boundaries across multiple vendors or contractors; experience in formal T&E environments (DT and/or OT) with a clear understanding of the distinction between verification and operational validation 

• Background in safety-critical systems V&V where verification rigor, evidence standards, and compliance documentation directly impact mission safety and operational certification 

• Experience with MBSE and digital twin environments — generating verification criteria from SysML/UAF models, using simulation outputs as verification evidence, and integrating model-based evidence into the VCRM alongside traditional test and analysis results 

• Experience with automated verification and continuous compliance monitoring within DevSecOps and CI/CD pipelines — linking automated evidence back to requirements for real-time verification status 

• Familiarity with AI-assisted V&V — intelligent coverage analysis, predictive compliance risk identification, and automated evidence assessment 

• Experience with real-time systems, low-latency architectures, and the unique verification challenges they present (timing analysis, determinism, fault tolerance verification) 

• Relevant certifications such as INCOSE CSEP/ESEP, ISTQB Advanced Test Manager, TOGAF, or CSQA 

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Target Salary Range

$135,000 - $216,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual’s experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

Benefits Statement

Peraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, health savings account, short/long term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off (PTO) for vacation, and company paid holidays. A full listing of available benefits can be viewed at https://www.careers.peraton.com/benefits.

Application Statements

The application period for the job is estimated to be 30 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates. By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in the role and the Company. During the review of your application, you may be required to participate in an on-camera interview, as well as participate in a process to verify your identity. Use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools of any kind during Peraton interviews is strictly prohibited unless the candidate has obtained prior written authorization. All interview responses must be the candidate’s own.

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