# Systems Engineer

Join our Downer Professional Services team and play a key role in delivering complex defence and national security projects that safeguard Australia’s future. Downer Professional Services comprises of three business units our Technical, Advisory, and Capability consulting practice, and Team Downer, which partners with CASG and NSSG as a major service provider to Defence. Together, we are a multi-disciplinary advisory and delivery partner of choice for clients across Defence and National Security. We currently have an opportunity for a Systems Engineer in Canberra or Melbourne to work closely with commercial resources to ensure alignment of Engineering and Technical artefacts with wider programmatic and commercial intent. What You’ll Do This role offers a broad scope, with key role responsibilities including: The conduct of tender evaluations as a member of a Tender Evaluation Working Group. Researching and developing requirements. Subject matter Systems engineering input, including drafting and review of the contract statement of work, CDRLs, DIDs and DSDs. Supporting development of engineering plans (e.g. Test and Evaluation Master Plan, Systems Engineering Management Plan, Safet

- **Id**: 4134393
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/downer-group-systems-engineer-5>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Australia
- **Countries**: AU
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T00:16:05Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T18:13:27Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4973
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Professional development
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Transport Infrastructure, Facilities Management, Engineering Services

## Company

- **Id**: 452179
- **Name**: Downer Group
- **Domain**: downergroup.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/downer-group>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Oracle

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 83
- **Open postings**: 81
- **Ghost share**: 0.012
- **Stale share**: 0.654
- **Repost share**: 0.012
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 24
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T03:28:27Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 24
- **Reasons**: conf:2, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

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