SME Systems Engineer

Lentech•Fort Meade, MD

17h

About The Position

Lentech is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to apply systems engineering principles throughout the systems life cycle phases, including Concept, Development, Production, Utilization, Support, and Retirement. The role involves interacting with the Government on Systems Engineering technical considerations and associated problems, issues, or conflicts. This position requires communication with other program personnel, government overseers, and senior executives. The engineer will be responsible for the technical integrity, quality, and completeness of work performed and deliverables related to various process areas defined by ISO/IEC15288, encompassing Technical, Project, Enterprise, and Agreement processes.

Requirements

Active and current TS.SCI w FSP through MD
High School Diploma or GED plus twenty-four (24) years of general system engineering experience.
Bachelor’s degree in a Qualified Engineering Field or a related discipline from an accredited college or university plus twenty (20) years of systems engineering experience.
Master’s degree in a Qualified Engineering Field or a related discipline from an accredited college or university plus eighteen (18) years of systems engineering experience
PhD in a Qualified Engineering Field or a related discipline from an accredited college or university plus eighteen (18) years of systems engineering experience.

Nice To Haves

Cloud Architecture/ Cloud Engineer/ Platform Engineering (especially in AWS)
AI/ML system design and implementation
High-level understanding of the AI lifecycle (development, training, inference, monitoring)
Experience with ML pipeline development, model deployment, and DevOps/MLOps
Experience with Amazon SageMaker is a plus
Excellent communication and collaboration skills with a variety of stakeholder groups, ability to proactively engage with these groups to understand requirements and inform system architecture decisions
System security and networking (particularly the implementation of system security on classified systems)
Data engineering and data lifecycle management

Responsibilities

Applies systems engineering principles throughout the systems life cycle phases: Concept, Development, Production, Utilization, Support, and Retirement.
Interacts with the Government regarding Systems Engineering technical considerations and for associated problems, issues or conflicts.
Communicates with other program personnel, government overseers, and senior executives.
Responsibility for the technical integrity, quality, and completeness of work performed and deliverables associated with one or more of the 25 process areas defined by ISO/IEC15288: Technical Process Area - Stakeholder Requirements Definition, Requirements Analysis, Architectural Design, Implementation, Integration, Verification, Transition, Validation, Operation, Maintenance, and Disposal.
Project Process Area - Project Planning, Project Assessment and Control, Decision Management, Risk Management, Configuration Management, Information Management, and Measurement.
Enterprise (Organizational Project-Enabling) Process Area - Project Portfolio Management, Infrastructure Management, Lifecycle Model Management, Human Resource Management, and Quality Management.
Agreement Process Area - Acquisition and Supply.