Systems Engineer - SME

Modern Technology Solutions • Dayton, OH

77d • Remote

About The Position

As an Engineer with MTSI, you will be responsible for supporting customers in Special Access Programs (SAP) and Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) facilities. You will interact daily with program managers, other engineers, financial managers, and industry subject matter experts across multiple Services supporting Department of Defense (DoD) Services and Agencies, and Intelligence Community (IC) customers. This position will be located at Wright-Patterson AFB, OH. You'll be a great fit for this role if you have a passion for DoD systems and advanced technologies, understand the urgent need to modernize and support our defense systems, are driven to make a meaningful impact through your work, are passionate about continuous learning and growth, have attention to detail, and provide excellent customer service in a professional environment.

Requirements

• Minimum of 20 years of relevant DoD work experience (years of experience may be waiverable with customer approval).
• No less than three (3) years' experience in an SAP and/or SCI environment within the last five (5) years (SAP/SCI experience may be waiverable with customer approval).
• Education: BS and MS degree in Electrical, Radar, Software, Microelectronics, or Computer Engineering (Master's degree may be waiverable with customer approval).

Nice To Haves

• Evaluating current fielded weapons systems to determine anti-tamper and reverse engineering susceptibility based on vendor design.
• Identifying susceptibility of critical protected information from exploitation and reverse engineering.
• Identifying methodologies to improve resistance of current and future electronic circuits to reverse engineering and exploitation.
• Supporting development of industry and DoD standards for future weapons systems to improve resistance to reverse engineering exploitation.
• Working with industry to assess tamper resistance of current weapons systems within the acquisition development cycle.
• Experience or having familiarity with state-of-the-art exploitation equipment and instrumentation to evaluate current and new processors, memory units, and electronic circuits to exploit weaknesses, identify improvements to design, and develop new standards to deter technological exploitation.

Responsibilities

• Assist in translating user requirements into system requirements, which will be used to design, develop, fabricate, test and evaluate systems, subsystems and equipment for deployment.
• Apply engineering principles and technical understanding of subject matter material into initial development, modification/updates/revisions, and maintenance of technical Anti-Tamper Security Classification Guides (SCG) using technical writing skills.
• Assist with the development of requirements and technology needs into action plans and policies necessary to improve and retain world class manufacturing, operations, re-manufacturing and de-militarization of weapon system capabilities.
• Perform technical/mission analyses of existing and potential operational requirements, assist in developing system concepts, and perform technological/trade-off study assessments of proposed designs.
• Review specifications, including system, system segment and equipment specifications, and Interface Control Documents (ICDs) involved in programs.
• Support and conduct engineering performance, effectiveness, cost effectiveness, cost performance, lifecycle cost, producibility, maintainability, supportability, reliability, technical and schedule risk assessment and scheduling trade-off studies.
• Support and conduct systems analyses to include, but not limited to, system design/design feasibility and state-of-the-art assessment.
• Provide systems/subsystems integration support for the acquisition, development and verification of systems and equipment.
• Teach learning modules within Anti-Tamper courses to industry and Government participants, and assist in curriculum development, as required.

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
• Education Level: Master's degree
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees