Senior SIGINT Systems Engineer

Peraton•Annapolis Junction, MD

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Peraton is hiring a Senior SIGINT Systems Engineer for its Cyber Mission business unit in Jessup, Maryland. The role supports a large enterprise-wide engineering contract within the Intelligence Community and a customer Cross Access Infrastructure team. The position is full-time, requires 1,880 hours of support per year, and is performed at a customer location. The engineer will track, monitor, and facilitate planning for the development, deployment, upgrade, and maintenance of SIGINT collection and processing systems. The role supports modernization of the SIGINT ground architecture, including replacing deprecated systems with solutions that enable automation, dynamic tasking, multi-access cross-cueing, and orchestration. The engineer also prepares engineering documentation and schedules, supports verification and validation, exercises, and audit and inspection activities. Applicants must have an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph and meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Peraton states a target salary range of $176,000–$282,000, with salary determined by factors including responsibilities, qualifications, location, and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may also be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, or another related discipline, plus at least 20 years of systems engineering experience. A Master’s or PhD degree may substitute for two years of experience. Alternatively, a high school diploma or GED plus 24 years of systems engineering experience is acceptable.
Knowledge of National SIGINT technologies and capabilities, associated system architectural components (including space systems, ground stations, and ground processing systems), and national collection requirements prioritization systems and processes.
Experience with all phases of the systems engineering life-cycle management process.
Strong project management skills.
Understanding of policy constraints associated with lawful SIGINT operations.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.

Nice To Haves

SIGINT systems subject matter expertise and familiarity with end-to-end systems, including tasking, collection management, collection operations, processing, and dissemination.
Experience with SIGINT data flows and the requirements for delivering specific data sets to different SIGINT databases.
Ability to support re-engineering focused on automation, multi-access cross-cueing, collaboration, and dynamic collection and processing orchestration.
Familiarity with SIGINT collection management and architecture, including best practices suitable for adoption within collection systems architecture.
Experience providing exercise support alongside system development and testing of new concepts and equipment.
Experience in cybersecurity principles, system security authorizations, and Risk Management Framework processes and capabilities.
Broad experience in systems engineering disciplines, system integration, project management, architecture development, and mission use case and thread analysis.
Demonstrated ability to work constructively with diverse stakeholders to resolve mission and technical issues.
Self-starter with strong attention to detail, excellent oral and written communication skills, and proficiency with Microsoft Office tools, especially Microsoft Excel.

Responsibilities

Capture and document requirements for new and updated systems.
Coordinate and track sensor projects through requirements, analysis of alternatives, sensor buildout, deployment, installation, testing, and transition to operations.
Participate in meetings, working groups, integrated product teams, product reviews, and status meetings to monitor systems engineering plans, development, and deployment of space and ground processing systems.
Work with government Systems Engineers to support re-engineering of the SIGINT ground architecture, replacing deprecated systems with systems that support automation, dynamic tasking, multi-access cross-cueing, and orchestration.
Produce systems engineering and technical documentation, develop master schedules, and support validation and verification activities.
Provide exercise support as needed for development and testing of new capabilities.
Serve as a liaison to critical personnel to monitor project development milestones.
Track and help resolve customer-related audit and inspection findings.
Anticipate and identify areas likely to present problems during future audits and inspections.