What are the responsibilities and job description for the System Engineer position at aqua IT?
*THIS IS PRE-AWARD. CONTRACT AWARD EXPECTED LATE APRIL/EARLY MAY*
Overview: This System Engineer will be applying systems engineering and image science expertise to assess, test, and verify geospatial sensor systems and associated products. The role involves developing and executing test plans, validating data quality, and ensuring products meet operational requirements and interoperability standards across the NSG. Engineers leverage software, image processing knowledge, and sensor system understanding to support concept of operations, quality assessments, and the full systems engineering lifecycle.
Qualifications:
- Active Top Secret/SCI clearance
- Bachelors Degree and 4 years of experience (8 years in lieu of degree)
- Basic understanding of product quality requirements and specifications.
- Experience with sensor imaging systems, products, and exploitation processes.
- Understanding of the systems engineering lifecycle to include independent testing and data verification, requirements, and development of concept of operations.
- Experience working with test plans and procedures and with working on an assessment team on a project.
- Basic experience testing software functionality and usability.
- Working knowledge of PAN, IR, and RADAR imagery concepts.
- Experience in test, verification and validation against specifications to meet planned concept of operations.
- Functional understanding of NSG image chain analysis as well as TCPED concepts.
- Experience developing/assessing product quality requirements and specifications.
- Experience in image science field working with the fundamentals of image processing, image formation, optics, digital signal processing.
- Strong understanding of the systems engineering lifecycle to include independent testing and data verification, requirements, and development of concept of operations.
- Ability to define product format requirements for new products to meet integration and interoperability requirements of the NSG.
- Application of image science knowledge/experience to develop test plans and procedures to assess data quality and accuracy.
- Experience identifying data needs to adequately perform product assessments to meet test objectives.
- Experience testing software functionality and quality. Knowledge of basic image science knowledge to quantify visual quality of imagery products and work with developers to trouble shoot causes of errors.
- Experience developing engineering-quality verification tools.
- Software development skills to support system engineering tasks and data analysis, specifically C/C , Python, JAVA, Matlab, IDL and/or scripting languages.