Systems Engineer
The Opportunity:
Are you looking for an opportunity to combine your technical skills with big picture thinking to make an impact in Department of Defense satellite communications systems? You understand your customer’s environment and how to develop the right systems for their mission. Your ability to translate real-world needs into technical specifications makes you an integral part of delivering a customer focused engineering solution.
As a satellite communications (SATCOM) systems engineer on our team, you have the have the opportunity to shape DoD SATCOM capacity analysis, data transport and management. Your customer will trust you to not only analyze, design and develop these systems, but also evolve them with advanced technology solutions. On our team, you’ll be able to broaden your skillset into areas like the future of the Department’s use of SATCOM, including narrowband and commercial SATCOM, 5G mobile technologies, and coordination international SATCOM efforts. Grow your skills by merging systems engineering, digital engineering and SATCOM to evolve your systems engineering skills and abilities to support the future of SATCOM with the department. Join our team and create the future of DoD Enterprise SATCOM.
Join us. The world can’t wait.
You Have:
5+ years of experience in systems engineering including, technical requirement analysis, solution alternatives, and implementation approaches
Knowledge of any combination of satellite communications, mobile wireless networks, such as 3G, 4G, and 5G, and state‐of‐art commercial or government communications technologies
Ability to provide strategic technical recommendations to DoD clients and program managers, including authoring related analytical, architecture, and engineering products, such as white papers, executive summaries, detailed trade studies, business case analyses, and briefings
Ability to present complex concepts to diverse audiences through various written and verbal formats including white papers, technical briefings, and trade-off analyses
Secret clearance
Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Data Science
Nice If You Have:
10+ years of experience with specialized end-to-end satellite communications systems, such as SATCOM terminals and gateways, modems, radio frequency subsystems and, IP networks
Experience with digital engineering, including model-based systems engineering (MBSE)
Knowledge of DoD SATCOM community and DoD policies governing acquisition and communication systems and networks
Knowledge of DoD policies governing communications systems and networks
TS/SCI clearance
Master’s degree in systems engineering or related technology field
Clearance:
Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; Secret clearance is required.
Compensation
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