Systems Engineer (Cyber) - Clearance Required

Overview

LMI is a new breed of digital solutions provider dedicated to accelerating government impact with innovation and speed. Investing in technology and prototypes ahead of need, LMI brings commercial-grade platforms and mission-ready AI to federal agencies at commercial speed.

Leveraging our mission-ready technology and solutions, proven expertise in federal deployment, and strategic relationships, we enhance outcomes for the government, efficiently and effectively. With a focus on agility and collaboration, LMI serves the defense, space, healthcare, and energy sectors—helping agencies navigate complexity and outpace change. Headquartered in Tysons, Virginia, LMI is committed to delivering impactful results that strengthen missions and drive lasting value.

Responsibilities

LMI is seeking a Multidisciplinary Systems Engineer to support the Space Warfighting Analysis Center / Spectrum Warfare Program (SWAC / SWP) in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The selected applicant must demonstrate a strong analytical and technical background with experience in the cyber domain (i.e., cybersecurity, network service orchestration, threat analysis, resiliency metrics), experience with threat modeling and simulation, and how to integrate cyber effects into software modeling and simulation tools.

Key Responsibilities:

• Participate in and lead segments of force design analysis for cyber resiliency effects, specifically related to space and ground architectures for fielded, programmed, and objective forces.
• Work as part of a larger team with customers, external partners and vendors, scientists, developers, engineers, managers, technicians, and support personnel.
• Understand and address customer analytical needs and issues, usually by direct interface.
• Develop and encourage a strong partner relationship with the customer and engineering leadership teams.
• Lead complex system analytics by organizing and focusing the work of multiple engineers with diverse specialties on a common technical solution.
• Brief industry partners, senior leaders, and general officers regularly and sometimes with little lead time.
• Work with the Division Chief to ensure the technical team has clear deliverables with clear deadlines while keeping team focused on delivering world class analytics that include cost-effective solutions.

Qualifications

Required:

• B.S. in Cybersecurity, Computer Science (or Engineering), Mathematics, Physics, or related STEM focus area
• Experience with space systems and cyber effects on those systems, network service orchestration, cyber threat analysis, and cyber resiliency metrics.
• 5 years of technical analytics experience.
• Ability to understand complex technical issues, translate them to workable tasks, and guide analytical discussions and decisions.
• Experience with cloud-based services (i.e., AWS or Azure).
• Experience managing complex analytics development with loosely defined requirements.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships in a complex environment with partners.
• Proficiency in task management.
• Ability to organize and lead a geographically dispersed team that includes subcontractor team members.
• Ability to work in a team-oriented environment while making direct contributions to team success.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen and hold an active Top-Secret clearance with SCI eligibility.


Desired:

• M.S. in a degree field applicable to complex technical analysis and/or systems engineering.
• 10 years of analytical experience with cyber related effects on space systems, network service orchestration, cyber threat analysis, and cyber resiliency metrics.
• Experience with the following Cloud technologies or their equivalents: VPC, EC2, S3, EBS, EKS, Lambda, RDS.
• AWS Solutions Architect professional certification preferred (Equivalent Azure certifications accepted).
• Strong awareness of networking and internet protocols, including TCP/IP, DNS, SMTP, HTTP, VPN infrastructure, load balancing, application firewalls, and distributed networks.
• Experience with Department of War (DoW) technical programs.
• Demonstrated success managing high tempo projects.

Target salary range: $114,000 - 192,000

Disclaimer: The salary range displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is not a guarantee of compensation. Individual salaries are determined by various factors including, but not limited to location, internal equity, business considerations, client contract requirements, and candidate qualifications, such as education, experience, skills, and security clearances. 

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Salary : $114,000 - $192,000