SIGINT Ground Systems Operator/Analyst

Stellar Solutions•Chantilly, VA

About The Position

Stellar Solutions, a nationally recognized “Great Place To Work,” has exciting opportunities to deliver innovative engineering solutions for non-profit, industry, and government partners. We are a global systems engineering service provider solving the most complex issues that commercial and government clients face today. We offer talented, energetic, and immediately productive resources to satisfy our customers’ critical needs in systems engineering and integration, mission operations, program management, and strategic planning. We are looking for a SIGINT Ground Systems Operator/ Analyst supporting a critical project. The candidate will provide technical expertise supporting the acquisition, development, deployment, and operation of systems (hardware and software). The Candidate will work as part of an integrated team including US Government employees, US Military, Federally Funded Research & Development Contract (FFRDC) and other SETA contractors. Role/Responsibilities/Qualifications In this role, you will: Provide technical and analytical support; development and integration of signals intelligence related requirements into an existing and/or planned systems to include size, weight, and power requirements for hosted USG platforms Manage and operate program specific Signals Intelligence capabilities Provide technical review of drawings, documents, design, manufacturing, integration, and test; provide formal and informal feedback to the COTR, Subject Matter Experts, and other customer personnel as required Guide system/capability requirements through their full system lifecycle from definition, allocation, derivation, verification, validation, and deployment Utilize software development tool suites to enable system capabilities Author and update critical systems engineering products including Technical Exchange summaries, requirements trace compliance products, Test and Analysis reports Proactively identify and assess emerging technical and programmatic risks at the system level and then work with the Subcontractor to develop and evaluate mitigation approaches Participate in and provide technical recommendations during design and program management reviews to assess maturity and requirements compliance to ensure the overall approach satisfies the operational requirement of the integrated system Using spectrum analyzer(s) to measure the magnitude of an input signal versus frequency within the full frequency range of the instrument; measure the power of the spectrum of known and unknown signals Understand how frequency, amplitude, and modulation parameters behave over short and long intervals of time Deliverable(s) Shape the future of space-based intelligence by assessing, integrating and operating next-generation SIGINT capabilities — where your expertise directly impacts mission success.

Requirements

Bachelors / 20+ Years; Masters / 15+ years; PhD / 10+ Years
Experience with IC and/or Department of Defense (DoD) space and ground SIGINT architectures
Fundamental understanding of DOD/IC satellite architectures and their operational employment
Excellent interpersonal, leadership, team building and problem-solving skills with a demonstrated ability to be e􀆯ective in a government/contractor team environment
Extensive knowledge and understanding of Space-based signals intelligence field

Nice To Haves

Advanced Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
Courses related to Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, and/or Digital Signal Processing
Experience with Space systems, SIGINT Architecture’s, SIGINT payloads/hardware, SIGINT mission areas, SIGINT tasking, SIGINT signals/types and collection management
Experience with other technical and electronic signals intelligence
Experience using tools and applications such as Vintage Harvest, Digital Viewer Tools, Waveform Viewer Tools, and Asynchronous Digital Signal Processor
Mission planning and analysis experience required.
Experience working with developers on the Operations and Maintenance (O&M) e􀆯orts of space systems
Test and Evaluation (T&E) experience required.
Advanced degree desired

Responsibilities

Provide technical and analytical support; development and integration of signals intelligence related requirements into an existing and/or planned systems to include size, weight, and power requirements for hosted USG platforms
Manage and operate program specific Signals Intelligence capabilities
Provide technical review of drawings, documents, design, manufacturing, integration, and test; provide formal and informal feedback to the COTR, Subject Matter Experts, and other customer personnel as required
Guide system/capability requirements through their full system lifecycle from definition, allocation, derivation, verification, validation, and deployment
Utilize software development tool suites to enable system capabilities
Author and update critical systems engineering products including Technical Exchange summaries, requirements trace compliance products, Test and Analysis reports
Proactively identify and assess emerging technical and programmatic risks at the system level and then work with the Subcontractor to develop and evaluate mitigation approaches
Participate in and provide technical recommendations during design and program management reviews to assess maturity and requirements compliance to ensure the overall approach satisfies the operational requirement of the integrated system
Using spectrum analyzer(s) to measure the magnitude of an input signal versus frequency within the full frequency range of the instrument; measure the power of the spectrum of known and unknown signals
Understand how frequency, amplitude, and modulation parameters behave over short and long intervals of time