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