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Lead Transition Engineer

xmstart, inc
Chantilly, VA Full Time
POSTED ON 1/5/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/4/2026
XMSTART is looking to add an experienced and strategic full-time Lead Transition Engineer to our team, in Chantilly, VA. This position is 100% Onsite.

Requirements

Security Clearance Requirements:

  • Active TS/SCI clearance with CI polygraph

Education:

  • Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) or relevant field and nine (9) years or more experience; Master's Degree in STEM or relevant field and seven (7) years or more experience; PhD or JD and four (4) years or more experience

Responsibilities:

  • Oversee, guide, and manage technical efforts for transition activities delivering vital mission operations capabilities. Efforts provide enterprise-wide, high-impact systems engineering and project management services
  • Anticipate, assign, drive projects and customer requirements to closure; continually assess tasks, realign/reprioritize/augment assignments as appropriate
  • Work with government managers to plan, organize, execute, and track efforts; maintain awareness of government's evolving needs and proactively provide analysis, insights, recommendations to improve delivery of services and/or exploit opportunity to enhance process, resource effectiveness, or efficiency
  • Provide technical support to government contacts; identify and communicate status, risks, issues, opportunities, assumptions, mitigations, and dependencies for transition activities
  • Promote and facilitate collaboration with government, SETA team members, and other contractors; across the enterprise, to ensure success of transition activities
  • Develop assessments and staffing products for a variety of audiences, convey information in a clear and articulate manner to Government leadership

Qualifications:

  • Demonstrated success performing project management and systems engineering tasks, delivering mission capabilities
  • Knowledge of SIGINT space and ground architecture including mission control and/or mission processing functions
  • Program lifecycle experience from concept development and design to deployment, operations and maintenance, decommission; familiar with related control gates and associated documentation
  • Experience with CONOPS and requirements development, systems analysis, interface control documentation, technical specification review, integration and testing; validation and verification
  • Self-starter, proactively addresses customer requirements with no supervision; expert at defining solutions for broad, abstract topics
  • Impeccable interpersonal skills and personal judgment, polished communicator (written/verbal)
  • Master at collaboration and coordination with multiple stakeholders -- consensus builder
  • Proficient with MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel), MS Outlook, MS Project

Desired/Preferred Qualifications:

  • Knowledge of satellite constellations, spacecraft orbit, tasking process, and ground station characteristics
  • Knowledge of SIGINT TCPED process
  • Familiar with MBSE/Digital Engineering, AGILE development, cloud technologies

Salary : $165,000 - $190,000

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