Systems Engineer, Associate Principal

Astrion•Dahlgren, VA

9d•Onsite

About The Position

Astrion is seeking a Systems Engineer to support NSWCDD in Dahlgren, Virginia. The role leads systems engineering and mission engineering for Department of Defense strategic, platform, weapon, combat, command and control (C2), cyber, and/or fire control systems. The engineer develops requirements, top-level designs, and system architectures for software-intensive systems supporting Navy and Joint warfighting capabilities. The position supports system development across its lifecycle, including integration, analysis, certification, security engineering, and technical documentation. Responsibilities depend in part on the assigned technical subcategory, which may include weapons or combat systems, strategic fire control, security systems, cyberspace systems, or computer systems engineering. The position is full-time, requires a Secret clearance with the ability to obtain up to TS/SCI, and involves travel of up to 25%.

Requirements

Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited college or university in an engineering, scientific, or technical discipline, or ten years of demonstrated and established knowledge and subject matter expertise relevant to the technical disciplines of the statement of work.
Ten years of professional systems engineering experience with a DoD major strategic, platform, weapon, combat, C2, cyber, and/or fire control systems program.
Five years of concurrent experience as a team leader performing systems engineering and mission engineering, including development of requirements and top-level designs and/or system architectures for software-intensive systems.
Experience identifying, analyzing, and resolving complex systems engineering issues involving platform, weapon, combat, C2, cyber situational awareness, and fire control systems for Navy and Joint warfighting capabilities.
Concurrent experience in at least one source-defined subcategory: Weapons Systems / Weapons Control Systems / Combat Systems; Strategic Fire Control Systems; Security Systems; Cyberspace Systems; or Computer Systems Engineer.
For the Security Systems subcategory only: CISSP in accordance with DoDD 8570; IAM Level III or higher with certification in Networking Technologies; IT-1 level clearance; and experience preparing and submitting Navy/DoD security certification and accreditation documentation for major weapon, combat, and/or fire control systems.
Ability to obtain and maintain the DoD/Navy clearance required by the final DD254/JPAS.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Government Off-The-Shelf and Commercial Off-The-Shelf technology in weapon, weapons control, combat, or fire control systems.
Experience with strategic fire control systems, SLBM Fire Control Systems, Formal Qualification Testing, Independent Verification and Validation, third-generation programming languages, Database Management Systems, mission planning, targeting models and simulations, Strategic Weapon System, Attack Weapon Control System, SPALTs, or logistics management of software, hardware, and documentation.
Experience leading shipboard system integration, development, deployment/design efforts, safety, Information Assurance, Human System Integration, documentation, software or hardware Change Control Boards, or working groups supporting strategic or attack weapons systems.
Experience with big data, machine learning, cloud, microservice architecture, correlation and analytics of externally derived information, and display of information for decision-making.

Responsibilities

Lead systems engineering and mission engineering efforts for strategic, platform, weapon, combat, C2, cyber, and/or fire control systems.
Develop requirements, top-level designs, and system architectures for software-intensive systems.
Identify, analyze, and resolve complex systems engineering issues involving Navy and Joint warfighting capabilities.
Support lifecycle system development and analysis for milestone decisions, concepts of operations, and initial design development.
Develop or review system integration documents for weapons systems, weapons control systems, and/or combat systems.
Support strategic, weapon, and/or combat system certification processes and self-certification criteria.
Support strategic fire control systems engineering, including software development, hardware design, systems integration, technical design documentation, coordination drawings, future capability definition, and weapons system integration.
When assigned to the Security Systems subcategory, support security systems engineering, including certification and accreditation documentation, DIACAP/RMF/PIT or predecessor processes, and security capability specification, development, integration, and testing.
When assigned to the Cyberspace Systems subcategory, support cyberspace systems engineering involving operational requirements identification, decomposition, architecture design, development, testing, evaluation, big data, machine learning, cloud, microservice architecture, and enterprise software integration.
Support computer systems engineering activities, including requirements definition, system design parameters, concepts of operation, risk assessment, producibility studies, performance analyses, test and evaluation, and post-delivery support.