DESCRIPTION: XMSTART has an opportunity for a Senior Systems Engineer to help identify and plan new capabilities to support mission operations through the application of Digital Engineering. This position may be in in Las Cruces, NM, Chantilly/Fort Belvoir, VA, or Aurora, CO. Occasional travel (~three trips/year). Responsibilities:
• Provide technical leadership in applying Digital Engineering concepts, processes, and tools in helping the government plan and define capabilities needed to better support mission operations (e.g., automation, situational awareness, etc.) in support of a mission system.
• Analyze user needs, concept of operations, and high-level systems architectures to develop system requirements. • Integrate operations models with acquisition models within the digital engineering ecosystem.
• Provide technical support to government points of contacts.
• Collaborate with SETA team members, development contractors, and customer forums. • Effectively communicate and interface with engineers from various contractors and government organizations. • Develop assessments and briefings to a variety of audiences; conveys information in crisp, articulate manner. QUALIFICATIONS
Required: • US Citizenship
• Active TS/SCI with CI polygraph
• Bachelor’s degree in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) and nine (9) years or more experience; master’s in STEM field and seven (7) years or more experience. *STEM is a contractual requirement.
• In-depth experience with NRO systems engineering processes.
• Experience with Digital Engineering/Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) concepts and tools (e.g. Cameo, SysML, etc.).
• Knowledge of overall GEOINT space and ground architecture including mission management, mission control and/or mission processing functions.
• Program lifecycle experience from concept development and design to deployment, operations and maintenance, decommission.
• Experience with CONOPS requirements development, interface control documentation, technical specification review, architecture development.
• Experience in mission operations environment – ops tempo, performance characterization, utility analysis, system calibrations.
• Experience with systems development methodologies (e.g Agile, DevOps, Spiral, Waterfall, etc.); cloud technologies.
• Self-starter, proactively addresses customer requirements with no supervision; expert at defining solutions for broad, abstract topics.
• Polished communicator (written/verbal); impeccable interpersonal skills and personal judgment.
• Master at collaboration and coordination with multiple stakeholders -- consensus builder.
• Proficient with MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook), MS Project; Jira, Confluence. Desired: • Real-time operations experience as a spacecraft or ground systems operator.