System Engineer L5

Responsibilities

**This is a full-time position requiring 1880 hours of support per year; and work is performed at a customer location. As a Terrestrial SIGINT Systems Engineer, you will support a customer terrestrial sensors team in tracking, monitoring and facilitating planning for the deployment, upgrade, and replacement of Terrestrial SIGINT collection and processing systems. You will: Capture and document the requirements for the new and updated systems as well as coordinate and track the sensor projects from requirements, analysis of alternatives, sensor buildout, deployment, and installation, testing and transition to operations. Participate in numerous meetings, working groups, and integrated product teams, product reviews, and status meetings to monitor the systems engineering plans, development, and deployment of space and ground processing systems. Work closely with government Systems Engineers to support the reengineering of the existing SIGINT ground architecture to facilitate the elimination of collection/processing stovepipes and replace the deprecated systems with collections/processing systems that support automation, dynamic tasking, multi-access cross-cueing and orchestration. Produce system engineering and technical documentation, develop master schedules, and support validation and verification activities. Provide exercise support as needed to assist in the development and testing of new capabilities. Serve as liaison to critical personnel in monitoring the state of project development milestones.

individual capabilities/experience desired:

The ideal candidate would be SIGINT Systems Subject Matter Expert. They should be familiar with the end-to-end system including tasking, collection management, collection operations, processing and dissemination components and processes. Ability to support re-engineering efforts that focus on automation, multi-access cross cueing, collaboration, and dynamic collection/processing orchestration. A familiarity with Overhead SIGINT systems collection management and architecture is useful, especially where they might employ best practices that may be suitable for adoption within the Terrestrial collection systems architecture. Experience providing exercise support in conjunction with system development and testing new concepts and equipment. **Key words: **Terrestrial SIGINT, NITRO, SIGINT Collection Operations, Requirements definition, Systems Integration, Systems Engineering, Exercise Support, Project Management, Data Flow experience

Qualifications

The System Engineering labor category templates can be enhanced if the candidate considers the following list of System Engineering key activities extracted from the International Council of Systems Engineering (INCOSE) documentation. The candidate should incorporate any applicable experience with these activities in the detailed description of experience. Technical Requirements (elicitation, analysis, definition, testing, tracing, etc.) Architecture (subsystem, system, or enterprise, at any level up to the overall system), using a recognized framework such as DoDAF (Department of Defense Architecture Framework). Design (detailed, hi-level, etc.) Version Control Configuration Management Quality control and assurance Verification & Validation Test (planning, conduct, verification, analysis, etc.) Integration System Transition, operation, maintenance, or disposal Process definition, implementation, and improvement Security (Certification and accreditation, etc.) Interface Management (Interface control documentation, ICD, etc.) Risk engineering (analysis, definition, mitigation, etc.) Metrics - identification, collection, analysis, reporting, etc. The Following can be used as a guideline for SE activities. Job Description: Applies systems engineering principles throughout the systems life cycle phases: Concept, Development, Production, Utilization, Support, and Retirement. Interacts with the Government regarding Systems Engineering technical considerations and for associated problems, issues or conflicts. Communicates with other program personnel, government overseers, and senior executives. Responsibility for the technical integrity, quality, and completeness of work performed and deliverables associated with one or more of the 25 process areas defined by TSO/IECI 5288: Technical Process Area - Stakeholder Requirements Definition, Requirements Analysis, Architectural Design, Implementation, Integration, Verification, Transition, Validation, Operation, Maintenance, and Disposal; Project Process Area - Project Planning, Project Assessment and Control, Decision Management, Risk Management, Configuration Management, Information Management, and Measurement; Enterprise (Organizational Project-Enabling) Process Area - Project Portfolio Management, Infrastructure Management, Lifecycle Model Management, Human Resource Management, and Quality Management; Agreement Process Area - Acquisition and Supply. Demonstrated Skills: The Level 6 System Engineer (SE) shall have demonstrated SE 5 level skills plus the following skills: Serve as a Subject Matter Expert Contribute to Plan and develop engineering projects Supervise the work of the project engineering staff and technicians Approve delivery of engineering work products Contribute to project methodology decisions Brief stakeholders on technical status Perform analysis of technical alternatives Contribute to systems engineering documentation such as System Engineering Plans, Initial Capabilities Documents, Requirements specifications, and Interface Control Documents Manage system requirements and derived requirements Resolve action items from Configuration Control Board (CCB) meetings, design reviews, program reviews, and test reviews

Clearance: TS/SCI w/Poly