Title: Systems Engineer - Expert Level Location: Springfield, VA Clearance: TS/SCI with Poly preferred Expert Level Systems Engineers 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. Candidates will be required to sign additional NDAs and provide proof of OCI for performance in the PMO programs. Duties include: + 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 Required: + 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 + TS/SCI clearance adjudication or ability to obtain SCI and pass a poly. 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 + TS/SCI clearance adjudication or ability to obtain SCI and pass a poly