Expert Systems Engineer

Job Description

Strategic ACI is seeking an Expert Level Systems Engineer to employ a multi-discipline 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. Candidate will be required to sign additional NDAs and provide proof of OCI for performance in the PMO programs.

Responsibilities:

• Create strategic roadmaps to resolve potential gaps and manage costs.
• Provide cross-domain 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 transition-related inputs to the PMO Requirements Baseline.
• Define and lead studies to evaluate innovative concepts and revolutionary technologies for application to KPMO requirements including large cross-domain 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 (NGA-NRO) requirements coordination meetings and initiatives to transition R&D capabilities to KPMO operations.

Qualifications:

Required:

• TS/SCI clearance adjudication or ability to obtain SCI and pass a poly.
• Master's degree in computational mathematics + 18 YOE or PhD in computation mathematics +10 YOE in related technical or scientific fields such as engineering, physics, computational chemistry or related STEM degree
• 18 years of technical experience is required
• Demonstrated experience with High Performance Compute (HPC) management including current knowledge of HPC technology and applications, recent experience in obtaining ATO for an HPC system, and application of HPC concepts to Space Situational Awareness
• Demonstrated experience implementing Multi-Level security requirements (physical and cyber), high performance astrophysics-based capacity, high performance visualization compute capacity, private controlled cloud solutions ,and AI compute and store
• Experience dealing with data and data sources that exist at multiple classification levels and integrating that data with computation processes that will generate additional data requiring multi-level protections
• Experience protecting data and implementing controls such as CONMON, MAC, CAD, ABAC, RBAC, RiBAC, PKI, SSO
• Experience with cross domain solutions
• Demonstrated experience employing analytics and quantifiable, physics based metric models for data analysis
• Experience with data fusion models that assess confidence in data accumulated from multiple sources
• Demonstrated experience with NRO/SAO or AF SPO offices

Desired:

• 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

About Strategic Alliance Consulting, Inc



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Why choose a career with Strategic ACI?



Strategic Alliance Consulting, Inc. believes that our greatest asset is our employees. Our goal is not to meet our staff's expectations, but to exceed them. Competitive salaries, work-life balance, industry leading benefits packages, and family first values are at the core of Strategic ACI's culture.



We're proud the be selected as a 2020 Best Places to Work in the Greater Washington Area by the Washington Business Journal (WBJ), as well as being 1 of 19 Virginia based companies to be awarded the prestigious HIRE Vets Gold Medallion by the Department of Labor for our commitment to veteran hiring, retention, and professional development.



Your Strategic ACI Total Rewards Compensation Package includes:

• Competitive salary


• 100% benefits paid (Includes; health, dental, and vision plan premiums) for all full time employees and their families


• 401k with 5% match vested at day one!


• Profit sharing commensurate with company growth


• PTO - 3 weeks and 3 days per year


• 11 Company Paid Holidays (aligned with Federal Government)


• Long term/Short term disability


• 1.5x salary life insurance


• $100 per month cell phone allowance


• $6000 cash in lieu of benefits per year if employee is insured elsewhere


• Tuition reimbursement of up to $5,250 per year for college or professional certifications


• Casual dress code, company lunches, flexible schedules, employee phone plan discounts