Strategic ACI is seeking an Expert Level Systems Engineer to employ a multi-discipline approach to requirements engineering, solutions engineering, reliability, resiliency, services development, research & development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across multiple architectures at different classification levels in the NSG and DoD/IC to ensure timely and accurate GEOINT. Candidate will be required to sign additional NDAs and provide proof of OCI for performance in the PMO programs. Responsibilities:
- Create strategic roadmaps to resolve potential gaps and manage costs.
- Provide cross-domain integration with mission partners and industry performers to ensure successful implementation and execution of KPMO technology programs.
- Manage the overall KPMO system transition process across the compendium of programs, project, pilots and initiatives.
- Collaborating with end users, create use cases for individual KPMO projects at multiple security levels.
- Maintain awareness of external (joint with mission partner) system tests and evaluate the potential impacts to PMO systems.
- Demonstrated experience in direct support to the PMO to ensure continued technical excellence in all mission areas.
- Responsible for ensuring the KPMO team is applying correct technical approaches to problem solving.
- Identify and create plans to drive optimization within KPMO.
- Assist KPMO in updates to the Portfolio Management Plan (PfMP) and Program Management Plans (PMPs).
- Assist in the evaluation of proposed industry solutions including program reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR, etc.).
- Identify risks, prepare and maintain a dependency matrix and provide recommendations for mitigation planning.
- Participate as an advisor in demonstrations, prototype efforts, technology risk mitigators and source selection activities.
- Produce test and transition-related inputs to the PMO Requirements Baseline.
- Define and lead studies to evaluate innovative concepts and revolutionary technologies for application to KPMO requirements including large cross-domain studies and intelligence requirement assessments.
- Determine state of the art, operational or technical feasibility to meet KPMO requirements.
- Analyze and assess special topics and prepare technical recommendations.
- Define CONOPs and metrics to evaluate algorithms.
- Develop, articulate and validate use cases; develop and execute test and training plans.
- Develop Testing & Evaluation (T&E) plans to assess the overall performance of algorithms and tools developed under NGA sponsorship.
- Demonstrated experience in defining CONOPs and metrics to evaluate algorithms.
- Ability to define targets and work with analysts on new types of targets.
- Ability to define and implement interfaces to multiple external applications facilitating construction and refinement of SSA and Space collection requests across multiple orbital regimes.
- Provide baseline requirements (RFC) support to include the full breadth of NGA and Joint (NGA-NRO) requirements coordination meetings and initiatives to transition R&D capabilities to KPMO operations.
Qualifications: Required:
- TS/SCI clearance adjudication or ability to obtain SCI and pass a poly.
- Master's degree in Electrical Engineering + 18 years of experience, or PhD in Electrical Engineering + 10 years of experience in related technical or scientific fields such as engineering, physics and mathematics.
- Machine learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI) with RADAR and RF processing and for SSA.
- Demonstrated experience in defining, designing and developing (SSA) applications.
- Demonstrated experience of space enterprise information needs (comprehensive, historical and indexed appropriately for down-stream tools), including space object observations, historical behavior and the relevant context of that behavior.
- Demonstrated experience with threats including SOSI, Radar and Optical sensors, Command and Control (C2), Offensive Space Control/Defensive Space Control (OSC/DSC).
- Experience dealing with data and data sources that exist at multiple classification levels and integrate that data with computational processes that will generate additional data at multiple classification levels.
- Experience employing security controls to protect assets, missions and data from multiple classification levels.
- Demonstrated experience with compliance to Integrated Protection Strategy (IPS) controls and data management procedures.
- Experience with space environment and space to ground including threats to assets; track de-confliction of SSA and imaging windows with ground targets, understanding support of GEOINT Assurance.
- Demonstrated experience to employ analytics and quantifiable physics-based metric models in a timely manner.
- Experience with development or operational use of any of the following SSA, space, I&W tools or tools with similar functions.
- Experience with data fusion models that assess confidence in data accumulated and aggregated across multiple modalities and domains.
- Experience with physics models to include the assessment of conservative/non-conservative forces, uncertainty/confidence estimation, weather effects, break-up events and conjunction analysis techniques that scale to many-on-many objects and can be dynamically tasked.
- Experience with space object measurement and identification.
- Demonstrated experience supporting SAO and related architectures.
- Demonstrated experience implementing Spatial Temporal (4D) modeling, simulation, visualization and tasking services, analytical and exploitation tools and integrated security services.
- Experience fusing data.
- Experience with multiple data collection techniques and an in-depth understanding of GEOINT phenomenology.
- Demonstrated experience of software development frameworks.
- Demonstrated experience of photogrammetry, remote sensing, image science, information sciences, geographic information systems, geomatics or related fields.
Desired:
- Demonstrated experience with commercial visualization tools such as RemoteView, ENVI, MATLAB and SOCET GXP.
- Demonstrated experience with the following standards:
- ANSI/EIA 632: Processes for Engineering Systems
- IEEE 1220: Standard for Application and Management of Systems Engineering
- IEEE 24765:2017 - Systems and Software Engineering - Software Life Cycle Processes
- ISO/IEC/IEEE 12207:2017 - Systems and Software Engineering - Software Life Cycle Processes
- ISO/IEC 15288: Systems Engineering - System Life Cycle Processes