Our client, a leading federal defense contractor has multiple long-term contract openings for Sr. Systems Engineers be a member of a cross-functional team responsible for developing and deploying the state-of-the-art ground operational system.

Responsibilities:
- Perform requirements analysis, requirements definition, requirements management, functional analysis, performance analysis, system design, detail trade studies, systems integration and test (verification), validation and interface definition studies of subsystem or system elements under the supervision of the lead systems engineer
- Perform technical planning, cost and risk analyses, and supportability and effectiveness analyses for subsystems and system elements
- Perform customer requirements analysis, develops system requirements and defines allocations to lower levels (elements and components)
- Perform detailed technical analyses for a subsystem or system elements
- Develop and evaluates systems, networks and information systems to ensure designs meet applicable governmental security specifications
- Participates in Modeling and Simulation
- Researches and analyzes data, such as vendor products, COTS components, GFE/CFE, specifications, and manuals to determine feasibility of design or application
- Supports the generation of technical engineering products by using the appropriate standards, processes, procedures, and tools throughout the system development life cycle.

Required Skills

- Must be US Citizen due to government requirement
- Must be able to obtain a DoD Secret Clearance (active Secret is preferred)
- Requires a Bachelor-s degree in Systems Engineering, or a related Science, Engineering or Mathematics field. Also requires 8+ years of job-related experience, or a Master's degree plus 6 years of job-related experience.
- Agile experience preferred.
- Experience with designing, coding, or modeling satellite contact planning systems
- System design including Use Case and thread-based modeling for SW messaging systems
- Interface Control Document (ICD) authoring through the system design thru Integration phase of program.