What are the responsibilities and job description for the Systems Engineer & Integration - Overhead SIGINT Requirements System Engineer position at Stellar Solutions?
| ID | 2023-1533 | Category | Systems Engineer | Required Security Clearance | TS/SCI w/CI Poly (SSBI/ISA) | Type | Full-Time |
Stellar Solutions, a nationally recognized "Great Place To Work," has exciting opportunities to deliver innovative engineering solutions for non-profit, industry, and government partners. We are a global systems engineering service provider solving the most complex issues that commercial and government clients face today. We offer talented, energetic, and immediately productive resources to satisfy our customers' critical needs in systems engineering and integration, mission operations, program management, and strategic planning.
You will be providing Systems Engineering and Integration support, specifically, to important National Missions.
The ideal candidate has some experience supporting the NRO. As a Space Requirements Systems Engineer on our team you will provide support for identifying, coordinating, and resolving the technical and policy challenges to utilizing overhead SIGINT systems.
The selected systems engineer will work collaboratively across the Intelligence Community to provide systems engineering and other technical assistance to customer's requirements development and planning for National SIGINT systems.
The selected engineer will work closely with intelligence agencies, national-level customers, and military services to capture and document the requirements for the next generation systems. The effort requires participation 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. The systems engineer will be a key member of the team charged with the production of solid documentation of the customers' requirements and a mapping of where, when and how those requirements will be satisfied by capabilities to be deployed across the extended IC enterprise as the next generation collection and processing systems are fielded. The selected Systems Engineer will directly participate in structured analysis of alternatives (AoA) decision making processes as plans work through the appropriate decision gates. To be successful, the selected individual must be able to communicate with other program personnel, government overseers, and senior executives.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related discipline and at least 15 years of systems engineering experience.
- Master's or PhD Degree may be substituted for two years of experience
- Note: A High School Diploma or GED plus 19 years of systems engineering experience would also be acceptable
- Knowledge of National SIGINT technologies, capabilities, their associated system architectural components (i.e. space systems, ground stations, ground processing systems), and knowledge of the national collection requirements prioritization system and associated processes is critical
- An understanding of the policy constraints associated with the conduct of lawful SIGINT operations is also critical to success
- Possess an active and current TS/SCI with CI/Polygraph
- Ability to represent customer organization at intelligence community requirements working groups and other technical forums
- Strong analytical skills and ability to develop and recommend solutions for problems/issues
- Ability to work independently and within a team environment
- Must have strong communications skills and be able to work across various levels of leadership
Desired Qualifications:
- The ideal candidate would be National Systems SIGINT Ground Architecture SME. However familiarity with relevant IC organizations and processes may be a suitable replacement for detailed technical knowledge of current National SIGINT systems capabilities
- Some knowledge of ODNI's Intelligence Community Capabilities Requirements (ICCR) process and the Joint Capabilities Integration Development Systems (JCIDS) process would be valuable. The task generally operates at the enterprise and architectural level of the capabilities needs processes, and seldom requires deep dives into low level system requirements.
- Knowledge of customer Corporate Requirements process will be very helpful in being fully effective in this work rose as the supported organization often partners with other agency organization as requirements work their way through the ICCR and JCIDS process.
COVID Vaccine Required - Reasonable Accommodations for Medical or Religious Reasons Considered
Deliverables will include reports, briefings, spreadsheets, or other documents as directed by the Government.
Stellar Solutions is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability
