RF System Support Engineer, Level 2

Participates in interface definition, design, and changes to the configuration between affected groups and individuals throughout the life cycle. Reviews and provides input to program and contract work breakdown structure (WBS), work packages and the integrated master plan (IMP). Reviews and/or approves system engineering documentation to ensure that processes and specifications meet system needs and are accurate, comprehensive, and complete.

Establishes and follows a formal procedure for coordinating system integration activities among multiple teams, ensuring complete coverage of all interfaces. Assess each risk to the program and determine the probability of occurrence and quantified consequence of failure in accordance with an approved risk management plan. Improves standard integration strategies based upon rationale for previous decisions that resulted in improved integration performance.

Uses validated models, simulations, and prototyping to mitigate risk and reduce cost of system development. Implements system design alternatives that consider life cycle cost, reuse, complexity, risk, system expansion, and growth. Assists with the development of system requirements, functional requirements, and allocation of the same to individual hardware, software, facility, and personnel components.

Participates in the development of system engineering documentation, such as System Engineering Plans, Initial Capabilities Documents, Requirements Specifications, and Interface Control Documents. Derives lower-level requirements from higher-level allocated requirements that describe in detail the functions that a system component must fulfill, and ensure these requirements are complete, correct, unique, unambiguous, realizable, and verifiable. Participates in establishing and gaining approval of the definition of a system or component under development (requirements, designs, interfaces, test procedures, etc.) that provides a common reference point for hardware and software developers.

Conducts quantitative analysis in non-functional system performance areas like Reliability, Maintainability, Vulnerability, Survivability, Producibility, etc.). Captures all interface designs in a common interface control format, and stores interface data in a commonly accessible repository. Establishes a process to formally and proactively control and manage changes to requirements, considers impacts prior to commitment to change, gains stakeholder buy-in, eliminates ambiguity, ensures traceability to source requirements, and tracks and. Manages and ensures the technical integrity of the system baseline over time, continually updating it as various changes are imposed on the system during the lifecycle from development through deployment and operations & maintenance.

Conducts and/or approves end-to-end system trade analyses to optimize system operations over its life-cycle through the proper balance of non-functional system performance areas. Fully defines interfaces in terms of origination, destination, stimulus, and data characteristics for software; and electrical and mechanical characteristics for hardware. Maintains knowledge of current and evolving agency, national, and international standards applicable to the system development of interest.

Applies and enforces use of suitable standards to ensure consistency and interoperability of developer hardware. Ensures effective, periodic review and control of the evolving configuration of a system, both hardware and software components and associated documentation, during the life of the system. Contributes to the development of sections of systems engineering documentation such as System Engineering Plans, Initial Capabilities Documents, Requirements specifications, and Interface Control Documents.

Coordinates the resolution of action items from Configuration Control Board (CCB) meetings, design reviews, program reviews, and test reviews that require cross-discipline coordination. Participates in an Integrated Product Team to design new capabilities based upon evaluation of all necessary development and operational considerations. Derives from the system requirements and understanding of stakeholder needs, functions that may be logically inferred and implied as essential to system effectiveness.

Generates alternative system concepts, physical architectures, and design solutions. Defines the methods, processes, and evaluation criteria by which the systems, subsystems and work products are verified against their requirements in a written plan. Leads the planning and test analysis of the DoD Certification/Accreditation Process (as well as other Government Certification and Accreditation (C&A) processes). Develops system design alternatives that consider life cycle cost, reuse, complexity, risk, system expansion, and growth.

Develops system design solution that satisfies the system requirements and fulfills the functional analysis. Develops derived requirements for Information Assurance Services (Confidentiality, Integrity, Non-repudiation, and Availability); Basic Information Assurance Mechanisms (e.g., Identification, Authentication, Access Control, Accountability); and Security. Provides technical direction for the development, engineering, interfacing, integration, and testing of specific components of complex hardware/software systems to include requirements elicitation, analysis and functional allocation, conducting system.

Develops scenarios (threads) and an Operational Concept that describes the interactions between the system, the user, and the environment, that satisfies operational, support, maintenance, and disposal needs. In conjunction with system stakeholders, plans the verification efforts of new and unproven designs early in the development life cycle to ensure compliance with established requirements. Manages system requirements and derived requirements to ensure the delivery of production systems that are compatible with the defined system architecture(s).

Required Experience:
Cyberspace Workforce Improvement Program (CWIP) IAT, Level 1 required

Required Education:

. Twelve (12) years experience in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity within the is required. Demonstrated experience in planning and leading Systems Engineering efforts is required.

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