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What type of company is Helm Point?
Helm Point Solutions is a growing woman-owned Cyber & Physical Security Contractor located in Columbia, Maryland. We strive to make every employee belong, be heard and be successful in their career. This includes listening to your needs, providing rewarding and challenging opportunities, and offering tools to succeed in your current role while preparing you for advancement. We are looking for ambitious folks to join our team and who want to help our customers meet their mission needs. 

Overview: We are seeking an Embedded Systems Engineer to join our dynamic team supporting critical projects within the intelligence community. .
Job DescriptionA System Engineer is needed to provide support for adding new capabilities to a complex system with exacting interface, performance, and security requirements. The selected candidate will provide system engineering expertise in one or more of the following areas: architecture, design, development, requirements analysis, data flow, network design/implementation, testing, and documentation for the system. She/he will analyze user requirements, system architecture, and system requirements specifications, will provide systems engineering expertise, and will develop system architecture and system design documentation. Responsibilities include supporting and providing guidance for system development and implementation planning through assessment of system engineering plans and system integration and test plans. The selected candidate will support the development of system configuration documentation, including designs for capacity and performance planning, and will perform engineering activities, including risk assessments and analyses of alternatives for a variety of system related issues and concerns. She/he will help define task success criteria and test procedures.Primary Roles and Responsibilities:

• Provide guidance and support for system engineering of large-scale systems, major system elements, and interfacing systems that are part of a large complex network environment with geographically distributed components.
• Collaborate with program management, system and software integration engineers, test engineers, information assurance engineers, and other project team members in an Agile environment to ensure requirements are met and issues are addressed.
• Implement system engineering practices to ensure the proper degree of engineering rigor is applied to all assigned tasks.
• Communicate with and effectively collaborating with internal technical professionals on a day-to-day basis, and with POCs from customer organizations when necessary.
• Actively participate in Program Increment Planning and related Agile team activities.

• Must have at least three years of experience designing and developing large integrated complex systems.
• Must have requirements verification traceability experience.
• Must have experience analyzing user requirements, system architecture, and/or system requirements specifications.
• Must possess a solid understanding of secure systems engineering and development.
• Must have some software development or shell scripting experience, software detailed design experience, and/or software/system testing experience.
• Must have demonstrated experience in several of the following areas: system architecture, design, and development, requirements analysis, data flow design/analysis, network design/implementation, testing, technical system documentation.
• Must be comfortable working on multiple systems and components simultaneously in various configurations.
• Must have experience with or familiarity with systems engineering activities in support of agile teams.
• Must be committed to adopting and adhering to best practices.
• Must have strong verbal and written communications skills.
• Must be able to effectively plan and prioritize tasking and communicate clearly regarding technical options and trade-offs.
• Must be capable of performing high quality work both independently and with a team in a fast-moving environment.
• Must be able to support some short-term travel when required, generally to Maryland.

• Bachelor's Degree System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or a related field and at least 8 years of related experience. Additional experience may be substituted for a Degree.
• Experience transitioning legacy systems into new architectures.
• Model Based Systems Engineering experience a plus.
• Risk Management/Risk Register experience a plus.
• Experience with the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methodology or as a member of an Agile team.
• Experience with technical documentation development.