Sigint Sensor Systems Engineer

Responsibilities

Peraton is hiring a SIGINT Sensor Systems Engineer to join our Cyber Mission business unit in Jessup, MD. As a Systems Engineer on our team, you will support one of the largest enterprise-wide engineering contracts within the Intelligence Community. This is a full-time position requiring 1880 hours of support per year; and work is performed at a customer location. As a SIGINT Sensor Systems Engineer on our team you will provide systems engineering, program planning, and mission management support to customer's SIGINT sensor operations organization. You will maintain cognizance of all sensor efforts and systems across the broader organization and identify areas of commonality and opportunities for program efficiency. You will provide the government customer with management support and technical assistance related to project procurement, integration, sustainment, and testing of customer's systems and will provide advice on both technical and resource issues. You will:

• Prepare draft Concept of Operations documents, task schedules and other program development and planning documentation for team engineers and integrators.

• Monitor and report on project status, providing program assistance to ensure project success throughout the entire project life cycle.

• Gather project requirements from users.

• Provide technical and programmatic analysis of proposed projects and provides recommendations for alternative solutions and schedules to government for consideration.

• Monitor and investigate new technological developments and meets with vendors to provide government with recommendations.

• Support the migration of legacy systems to a common sensor and data operations baseline, especially as related to ensuring all systems requirements are identified and allocated to the migrated baseline.

Qualifications

Individual Capabilities/Experience Required:

• Bachelor's degree or advanced degree in computer science, information systems, engineering or other related discipline plus at least 6 years of systems engineering experience. A Master's degree or PhD may be substituted for two years of experience. A high school diploma or GED plus 10 years of systems engineering experience would also be acceptable.

• Ability to deconstruct top-level requirements to functional requirements for systems solutions that account for technical, schedule and cost constraints.

• Ability to support management in the planning, de-confliction, and deployment of SIGINT systems for operations in coordination with supported government customer and other government department and agency partners.

• Demonstrated ability to perform technical planning, systems integration, data verification and validation, data flow, cost and risk analysis, and supportability/effectiveness analysis for newly integrated systems.

• Knowledgeable of SIGINT sensor systems, SIGINT collection and processing methods

• Position requires TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.

Individual Capabilities/Experience Desired:

• Experience with tactical SIGINT, especially the use of SIGINT payloads on UAV platforms strongly desired.

• Experience with program transitioning and decommissioning planning desired.

• Practical experience managing both program and technical issues for multiple on-going SIGINT projects.

• Experience in collaborating with peer organizations and representing customer's projects to external organizations.

• Ability to successfully advocate for customers positions while maintain collegial relationships with stakeholders.

• Experience working with organizations to overcome barriers to success and create shared solutions.

• Knowledge of System Security Accreditation processes and standards

• Experience with hardware/software development especially with communications related systems.

• Knowledge of collaboration tools like JIRA and Confluence

• Experience with HPC systems.

• Demonstrated ability to work through technical and organizational challenges to achieve mission success.

• Strong personal communications skills, self-motivated, team player.

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Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

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.

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

$86,000 - $138,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.