Systems Engineer Expert:

Overall Assignment Description:

Expert Systems Engineers assist in leading engineering teams in taking a multi-discipline approach to requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence (ASG) and Federal Agencies to ensure timely and accurate GEOINT

Duties include:

• Assists the Government in directing requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence (ASG) and Federal Agencies.
  
• Assists with the planning, analysis/traceability of user requirements, architectures traceability, procedures, and problems to automate or improve existing systems and review cloud service capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations.
  
• Advises the Government on proposed changes to the solutions designs based on analysis of requirements and new technology.
  
• Assists the Government in the capture and translation of mission and customer requirements/needs into systems/capability requirements and solutions.
  
• Supports the analyses and allocation of requirements to systems architecture components and executing programs.
  
• Assists the Government in performing systems integration activities.
  
• Assist in leading Analysis of Alternatives (AoAs), Course of Actions (CoAs), Trade Studies, and Engineering Assessments.
  
• Assists the Government in strategic technical planning, project management, performance engineering, risk management and interface design.
  
• Provides expert advice to the Government in the areas of relating vision, strategy, plans, needs, requirements, and process and capability developments.
  
• Operates at the level of integrating multiple Major Systems Acquisitions across organizational, agency, department, and governmental/national boundaries.
  
• Demonstrated knowledge of the current NSG/ASG and NRO enterprises.
  
• Oversees and coordinates the work of Senior-, Mid-, and Junior-level contractor Systems Engineers.
  

Skills and Experience:

• Master's degree in Engineering with 18+ Exp. in related technical or scientific fields such as engineering, physics, mathematics.
  
• PhD degree in Engineering with 10+ Exp. in related technical or scientific fields such as engineering, physics, mathematics.
  
• Demonstrated Exp. with Integrated Protection Strategy (IPS).
  
• Demonstrated Exp. with space situational awareness, space-based sensors, and threat analysis.
  
• Exp. dealing with data and data sources that exist at multiple security domains.
  
• Demonstrated Exp. with external threats against sensitive operations.
  
• Exp. with Physics Models, Assessment of Conservative/Non-conservative forces, = uncertainty/confidence estimation, space weather effects, break-up events, and conjunction analysis techniques.
  
• Exp. Space Object Measurement and Identification.
  
• Demonstrated Exp. supporting MP or AF SPO, CAP/SAP architecture.
  
• Understanding of MBSE, processes, tools, and languages.
  

Security Clearance:

• TS SCI