Lead Systems Engineer
Job Locations: US-DC-Washington
Requisition ID: 2024-149636
Position Category: Engineering
Clearance: Public Trust
Responsibilities
- Generate quantifiable requirements based on customer description, system planning and design, and acquisition logistics.
- Ensure requirements comply with functional and performance specifications through formal verification methods and translate high level product development strategies into system requirement specifications and work with other engineering disciplines to develop lower-level detailed implementation requirements.
- Establish and coordinate development of standards, practices, and procedures as related to the overall product development.
- Design interfaces and system component integration.
- Assess performance using evaluation criteria and technical performance measures.
- Develop system conceptual design and documentation and ensure integration into current system and traceability of requirements.
- Lead the development of system level requirements verification procedures and customer acceptance test criteria.
- Lead in the development of product review plans, SEMP, and participates in full life-cycle reviews.
- Review test plans/procedures and ensure they meet the objectives of the contractual requirements and participate in the testing process to validate requirements.
Other responsibilities include:
- Serve as a key lead on the program technical team.
- Consults with management, customers, and external contractors regarding the project schedule, resources, plans, designs, and implementations.
- Oversee technical design, development, and implementation of system services.
- Establish standards for system design and development.
- Ensure system performance goals are met and the integrity of design is maintained.
- Coordinate the identification, reporting and resolution of system anomalies/discrepancies.
- Validate allocated requirements to assure system architecture, design and implementation satisfies requirements.
- Evaluate emerging technologies for potential application.
- Interact with customers regarding strategies, requirements, problem solving, and support.
- Contribute to technical risk/opportunity identification and lessons learned.
Qualifications
Must hold a DOC Public Trust clearance
- 12 or more years of experience directly related to System Engineering for Satellite Ground Systems, including requirements decomposition and analysis, model-based engineering, virtualization, Service Architectures, and cloud-based services.
- Strong knowledge of Satellite Ground Systems including mission planning, command, control and communications, data processing, space to ground interfaces, network topologies, cyber security, and Satellite Operation facilities.
- In-depth knowledge of data structures and ability to analyze data to solve problems.
- Experienced with NASA Systems Engineering Processes and Requirements (NPR 7123.1).
- Experience with Atlassian tools such as Jira and Confluence.
- Understanding of Model-based systems engineering (MBSE) processes, tools, and languages (Cameo, MagicDraw, SysML, Sequence Diagrams, DoDAF, etc.).
- Experience with software centric systems.
- SAFe certification or experience with Scaled Agile Framework methodology.
- Knowledge of cloud-based services (AWS).
Desired Experience, Skills, Knowledge:
- Experience with VMware or virtualization technologies.
- Experience with Microsoft Windows and various Linux OSs.
- Experience in software or systems testing.
- Experience writing specifications and conducting trades.
- Experience with DOORS (or equivalent) requirements management tool.
- Experience with configuration and change management processes and tools.
- Experience with CMMI Level 3 processes.
- Experience with Earned Value Management System (EVMS).
Peraton Overview
Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can't be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.
Target Salary Range
$135,000 - $216,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
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