Systems Engineer Expert-Level 112-121

Expert Level Systems Engineers 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. Candidates will be required to sign additional NDAs and provide proof of OCI for performance in the PMO programs.

Duties may include:

• 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
• Demonstrated Experience supporting sensitive MP or AF SPO architectures

Education and Experience

Required:

• 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
• Demonstrate experience with ANSI/EIA 632: Processes for Engineering Systems
• Demonstrate experience with IEEE 1220: Standard for Application and Management of Systems Engineering
• Demonstrate experience with IEEE 24765:2017 - Systems and Software Engineering - Software Life Cycle Processes
• Demonstrate experience with ISO/IEC/IEEE 12207:2017 - Systems and Software Engineering - Software Life Cycle Processes
• Demonstrate experience with ISO/IEC 15288: Systems Engineering - System Life Cycle Processes

Security Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI Clearance and the willingness to sit for a CI polygraph, if needed

IC-CAP provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status.