Senior Systems Engineer - Hyperspectral Imaging

Responsibilities

Overall Assignment Description:

Senior Systems Engineers play a key role in guiding engineering teams to apply a multi-disciplinary approach across a variety of engineering functions, including requirements engineering, solutions development, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, integration, testing, evaluation, maintainability, and analysis. These efforts span the National System of Geospatial-Intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-Intelligence (ASG), and Federal Agencies to ensure the delivery of accurate and timely GEOINT services.

 

Duties may include:

• Leading and mentoring Mid-level and Junior Systems Engineers in performing tasks such as requirements engineering, solutions development, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, integration, testing, evaluation, maintainability, and system analysis across NSG, ASG, and Federal Agencies.
• Overseeing the planning and traceability analysis of user requirements, system architectures, procedures, and issues to automate and enhance existing systems while assessing cloud service capabilities, workflows, and scheduling constraints.
• Leading Mid-level and Junior Systems Engineers in developing solution designs based on detailed analysis of requirements and emerging technologies.
• Assisting the Government in capturing and translating mission and customer needs into systems and capability requirements and corresponding solutions.
• Supporting the analysis and allocation of system requirements to architecture components and implementing programs.
• Performing system integration activities to ensure seamless operation of complex systems.
• Conducting Analysis of Alternatives (AoAs), Course of Action (CoAs) evaluations, trade studies, and engineering assessments.
• Assisting the Government with strategic technical planning, project management, performance engineering, risk management, and interface design.
• Integrating multiple systems, services, processes, and interfaces within Major Systems Acquisitions, ensuring successful collaboration across organizational and agency boundaries.

Qualifications

Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees working on this critical National Security program, which include heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for you and your dependents, 25 days of PTO accrued annually up to a generous PTO cap and eligible to participate in an attractive bonus plan.

 

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering, Computer Science, Imagery Analysis, or a related STEM field. Alternatively, 4 years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree, or 2 years of experience with a non-STEM degree.
• 12+ years of experience in government or industry, with expertise in areas such as the DoD/IC Acquisition Process, Requirements Process, PPBES Process, or systems engineering for large, complex System of Systems or Service-Oriented Architecture environments. This includes working in cloud, on-premise, or hybrid infrastructures.
• Strong experience and deep understanding of the systems engineering lifecycle.
• Experience in integrating spectral data into spectral exploitation tools.
• Direct experience supporting the NGA and/or mission partners. 
• Active TS/SCI clearance or the ability to obtain SCI clearance and successfully pass a polygraph.

Peraton Overview

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Target Salary Range

$146,000 - $234,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

EEO

EEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.