Sigint Systems Engineer

Engineering · Full-time · VA, United States

Job description

Security Clearance: Active TS/SCI with CI Polygraph required

Position

The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is the U.S. Government agency in charge of designing, building, launching, and maintaining America’s intelligence satellites.

Develop. Acquire. Launch. Operate.

Apogee's ideal SIGINT Engineer will take a multi-discipline approach to requirements, solutions, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test & evaluation, maintainability, and analysis across the NRO enterprise and mission partners.  This engineer will be an integral part in coordinating and supporting end-to-end systems integration and requirements closure to the remote sensing domain.

If you live and breathe GEOINT, SIGINT or COMM then you'll love Apogee and this position!

What You'll Do

  • Interface with operations, engineering, and mission partner teams

  • Support and participate in engineering working groups that will review and assess the maturity of engineering Artifacts, CONOPS, and architecture products

  • Collaborate with other engineers to develop end-to-end models of complex systems to include architecture and behavior of the system using Systems Modeling Language (SysML)

  • Assist in identification of Enterprise and System risks for elevation through the Risk Management process, executing risk mitigation steps, and closing risks

  • Interact effectively and efficiently with government customers to determine the overall maturity of SIGINT acquisitions at each stage of the Intelligence Community Lifecycle Acquisition process while adhering to government standards and procedures

  • Providing decision support, engineering process consultation, technical meeting coordination, and leading the development of initial recommendations for Government decision-makers

  • Assist programs in applying Systems Engineering principles to the design, development, manufacturing, integration and testing, and operations of small satellites and experiments

Required

  • Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering or other STEM degree program or related equivalent additional experience

  • Requires 5 to 8 years experience with BS/BA

  • Working knowledge of spacecraft operations and related ground enterprise systems

  • Proven core systems engineering process knowledge

  • Proven communication skills

Desired Skills

  • Experience with tools such as Jira and Confluence

  • Experience with Defense Acquisition

  • Experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)

What You'll Love About Apogee

  • Challenging work in support of US Intel Community - a Mission that Matters!

  • Access to our cool ApogeePlex facility

  • Support for new ideas & encouragement to take risks

  • Professional Development Assistance (PDA)

  • Wicked smart and collaborative coworkers

  • Regular interfacing with company leadership

  • 401(k) with huge company match

  • Paid Time Off / Fixed & Floating Holidays

  • Medical, Dental, Vision

  • Health Savings Accounts / Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts

  • Life Insurance, Disability (Short and Long Term), Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D)

Apogee's Mission

  • Be the PROVIDER of choice for government & commercial organizations with an unwavering commitment to responsiveness, accuracy, integrity, collaboration, and innovation

  • Be the EMPLOYER of choice committed to an open & transparent corporate atmosphere and progressive culture that attracts and empowers world class professionals to explore cutting-edge technical solutions while fostering professional growth

  • Be the preferred SOURCE for cutting-edge Analytic Products, Systems & Software Engineering, Big Data Integration, IT and Business Services that directly contribute to customer success

Apogee Integration is an Equal Opportunity/AA Employer - M/F/Vets/Disabled