Systems Engineer

A TS/SCI clearance is required for this position.

Role: Systems Engineer
Location: Springfield VA
Type: Onsite
Salary: $180 K Benefits

Expert Level Systems Engineers employ a multidiscipline approach to requirements engineering solutions engineering reliability resiliency services development research & development integration test and evaluation maintainability and analysis across multiple architectures at different classification levels in the NSG and DoD/IC to ensure timely and accurate GEOINT. Candidates will be required to sign additional NDAs and provide proof of OCI for performance in the PMO programs.

Duties:

• Create strategic roadmaps to resolve potential gaps and manage costs.
• Provide crossdomain integration with mission partners and industry performers to ensure successful implementation and execution of KPMO technology programs.
• Manage the overall KPMO system transition process across the compendium of programs project pilots and initiatives.
• Collaborating with end users create use cases for individual KPMO projects at multiple security levels.
• Maintain awareness of external (joint with mission partner) system tests and evaluate the potential impacts to PMO systems.
• Demonstrated experience in direct support to the PMO to ensure continued technical excellence in all mission areas.
• Responsible for ensuring the KPMO team is applying correct technical approaches to problem solving.
• Identify and create plans to drive optimization within KPMO.
• Assist KPMO in updates to the Portfolio Management Plan (PfMP) and Program Management Plans (PMPs).
• Assist in the evaluation of proposed industry solutions including program reviews (SRR PDR CDR etc.).
• Identify risks prepare and maintain a dependency matrix and provide recommendations for mitigation planning.
• Participate as an advisor in demonstrations prototype efforts technology risk mitigators and source selection activities.
• Produce test and transitionrelated inputs to the PMO Requirements Baseline.
• Define and lead studies to evaluate innovative concepts and revolutionary technologies for application to KPMO requirements including large crossdomain studies and intelligence requirement assessments.
• Determine state of the art operational or technical feasibility to meet KPMO requirements.
• Analyze and assess special topics and prepare technical recommendations.
• Define CONOPs and metrics to evaluate algorithms.
• Develop articulate and validate use cases; develop and execute test and training plans.
• Develop Testing & Evaluation (T&E) plans to assess the overall performance of algorithms and tools developed under NGA sponsorship.
• Demonstrated experience in defining CONOPs and metrics to evaluate algorithms.
• Ability to define targets and work with analysts on new types of targets.
• Ability to define and implement interfaces to multiple external applications facilitating construction and refinement of SSA and Space collection requests across multiple orbital regimes.
• Provide baseline requirements (RFC) support to include the full breadth of NGA and Joint (NGANRO) requirements coordination meetings and initiatives to transition R&D capabilities to KPMO operations.

• 18 yrs experience
• Masters degree in Electrical Engineering 18 years of experience or PhD in Electrical Engineering 10 years of experience in related technical or scientific fields such as engineering physics and mathematics.
• Machine learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI) with RADAR and RF processing and for SSA.
• Demonstrated experience in defining designing and developing (SSA) applications.
• Demonstrated experience of space enterprise information needs (comprehensive historical and indexed appropriately for downstream tools) including space object observations historical behavior and the relevant context of that behavior.
• Demonstrated experience with threats including SOSI Radar and Optical sensors Command and Control (C2) Offensive Space Control/Defensive Space Control (OSC/DSC).
• Experience dealing with data and data sources that exist at multiple classification levels and integrate that data with computational processes that will generate additional data at multiple classification levels.
• Experience employing security controls to protect assets missions and data from multiple classification levels.
• Demonstrated experience with compliance to Integrated Protection Strategy (IPS) controls and data management procedures.
• Experience with space environment and space to ground including threats to assets; track deconfliction of SSA and imaging windows with ground targets understanding support of GEOINT Assurance.
• Demonstrated experience to employ analytics and quantifiable physicsbased metric models in a timely manner.
• Experience with development or operational use of any of the following SSA space I&W tools or tools with similar functions.
• Experience with data fusion models that assess confidence in data accumulated and aggregated across multiple modalities and domains.
• Experience with physics models to include the assessment of conservative/nonconservative forces uncertainty/confidence estimation weather effects breakup events and conjunction analysis techniques that scale to manyonmany objects and can be dynamically tasked.
• Experience with space object measurement and identification.
• Demonstrated experience supporting SAO and related architectures.
• Demonstrated experience implementing Spatial Temporal (4D) modeling simulation visualization and tasking services analytical and exploitation tools and integrated security services.
• Experience fusing data.
• Experience with multiple data collection techniques and an indepth understanding of GEOINT phenomenology.
• Demonstrated experience of software development frameworks.
• Demonstrated experience of photogrammetry remote sensing image science information sciences geographic information systems geomatics or related fields.

• Demonstrated experience with commercial visualization tools such as RemoteView ENVI MATLAB and SOCET GXP.
• Demonstrated experience with the following standards:
  • ANSI/EIA 632: Processes for Engineering Systems
  • IEEE 1220: Standard for Application and Management of Systems Engineering
  • IEEE 24765:2017 Systems and Software Engineering Software Life Cycle Processes
  • ISO/IEC/IEEE 12207:2017 Systems and Software Engineering Software Life Cycle Processes
  • ISO/IEC 15288: Systems Engineering System Life Cycle Processes