Lead Systems Engineer

Lead Systems Engineer

Job Category: Engineering

Time Type: Full time

Minimum Clearance Required to Start: Secret

Employee Type: Regular

Percentage of Travel Required: Up to 25%

Type of Travel: Local

CACI's Advanced Solutions Group (ASG) is comprises a 1,300+ person staff based at numerous CONUS and OCONUS locations. The majority of the ASG workforce maintains TS/SCI clearances and holds technical degrees with significant experience serving and developing not only highly specialized systems for DoD, national, and civilian customers, but architecting, delivering, and sustaining end-to-end mission solutions worldwide.

• The National Solutions division develops, fields, operates, and sustains RF collection systems and specializes in geolocation, advanced SIGINT processing, analysis, and reporting systems for national customers.

• The Tactical Solutions division focuses on developing, delivering, and sustaining SIGINT systems for worldwide fielded forces, including traditional data collection, analysis, and reporting to cognitive early warning/electronic attack and fixed and mobile counter-UAS (c-UAS) systems.

• The Space Operations and Resiliency division provides operations, sustainment, and modernization support to a worldwide network of ground-to-space antennas; develops leading-edge enterprise ground solutions; and provides onsite operational support to launch, on-orbit, and space battle management for DoD, national, and civilian customers.

CACI is seeking a Systems Engineering Manager to lead a fast-paced counter-unmanned aircraft systems (C-UAS) mission that makes a difference to the warfighter on a daily basis.

What You'll get to Do:

You will be responsible for working with stakeholders to develop requirements and deliver new capabilities while learning the mission and growing into a key engineering role. You will lead a team of fun and energized engineers and culture of sharing information amongst teammates working within a product family to field tactical SIGINT collection systems to the DoD.

• Responsible for the technical accuracy on hardware/software projects for specific customer programs, tracking delivery schedules, CDRL delivery, and performing factory acceptance testing of new hardware and software.

• Pushing the software baseline forward by continuing process improvement and using agile software development process.

• Installing, configuring, testing, and maintaining operating systems, application software and system management tools in support of DoD customer.

• Work with highly motivated technical teammates that will support and push you and will expect reciprocal action on your part.

• You will be part of a team and culture of sharing information amongst teammates.

You'll Bring These Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or related discipline from an accredited college or university and 5+ years of related experience is required. Five (5) years of additional SE experience may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.

• Current Secret clearance and able to obtain TS/SCI with CI polygraph

• Must have experience with all stages of the Systems Engineering Lifecycle (SELC): Concept of Operations (CONOPS), requirements development, design, verification and validation testing, quality assurance, system integration, and operations support; including the development of requirements directly with stakeholders, as well as the development and execution of test plans/procedures.

• Experience designing, analyzing, testing, and verifying information and operational support systems for DoD customer from inception to support and operations and the ability to present technical information to numerous stakeholders.

• Excellent written and verbal skills to generate CDRLs for customer delivery.

• Experience with managing and documenting system configurations.

• Able to work independently and effectively manage daily activities

• Familiarity with radio frequency (RF) systems and test equipment (spectrum analyzer, network analyzer, signal generator, multimeter etc.)

• Must know the basic commands and navigation of the Linux operating system.

These Qualifications Would be Nice to Have:

• Ability to configure a variety of hardware components.

• Experience in coordination and installation of systems to customer locations.

• Experience with C-UAS and/or RF software and hardware systems.

• Experience with Digital Signal Processing (DSP) software and hardware.

• Understanding of SDR (Software Defined Radio) systems.

• Experience with computer networking infrastructure products such as servers, switches, firewalls, and routers.

• Experience with agile development programs and supporting applications (e.g., JIRA, Mingle).

• Experience with return merchandise authorization (RMA) process, defining help desk decision trees, and submitting purchase orders.

• Experience with NIST RMF-800-53.

• Experience with test automation

• Experience with machine learning

• Experience with SATCOM systems.

• Experience with Model Based System Engineering (MBSE)

• TS/SCI clearance with CI polygraph

Desired Certifications:

• Security+ or CISSP Certification

What We can Offer You:

• We've been named a Best Place to Work by the Washington Post.

• Our employees value the flexibility at CACI that allows them to balance quality work and their personal lives.

• We offer competitive benefits and learning and development opportunities.

• We are mission-oriented and ever vigilant in aligning our solutions with the nation's highest priorities.

• For over 60 years, the principles of CACI's unique, character-based culture have been the driving force behind our success.

Company Overview:

CACI is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected characteristic.

Pay Range: There are a host of factors that can influence final salary including, but not limited to, geographic location, Federal Government contract labor categories and contract wage rates, relevant prior work experience, specific skills and competencies, education, and certifications. Our employees value the flexibility at CACI that allows them to balance quality work and their personal lives. We offer competitive compensation, benefits and learning and development opportunities. Our broad and competitive mix of benefits options is designed to support and protect employees and their families. At CACI, you will receive comprehensive benefits such as; healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education, and time off benefits. Learn more here

The proposed salary range for this position is:

$119,800 - $263,600