Chief EO/IR Architect Engineer

About the Role

As a Chief EO/IR Architect Engineer, you will be involved in all phases of system development, from pre-proposal activities through final design, manufacturing, assembly, integration, verification, and delivery. You will provide technical direction and leadership to integrated product teams of varying sizes.

Responsibilities

• Evaluation and shaping of customer requirements, assisting business development in defining opportunity spaces for future contracts.
• Development of top-level system architecture of mission solutions, including optical and electronic design requirements, on-board processing requirements, platform interfaces, and CONOPS.
• Defining, executing, and overseeing system design trades.
• Interfacing with customers throughout the product life cycle as the lead technical representative of the product development team.
• Leading program teams, including other engineering disciplines and interfacing with program management, to develop optical system design concepts and decompose and flow down system requirements to lower-level assemblies and components.
• Preparing and presenting material for formal design reviews and customer meetings.
• Defining and leading internal IR&D projects.

Qualifications

• Must be a U.S. citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree with 12+ years of relevant work experience OR 10 years of relevant work experience with a Master’s degree.
• Decomposition of complex systems into logical building blocks and the ability to develop requisite error budgets and requirements traceability.
• Evaluation and definition of optical, mechanical, electrical, and environmental inputs into an EO/IR system and their influence on overall requirements compliance.
• Program planning including scope definition, resourcing, and budgeting.
• Proficient technical writing skills including proposal content, requirements specifications, verification matrices, verification plans, and verification reports.
• CONOPS development.
• Technical leadership of cross-functional/discipline teams.

Skills

• Experience in architecting and/or developing imaging system solutions for spaceborne missions.
• Knowledge of EO industry technical capabilities (e.g., focal planes, electronics) for space systems, supporting architecting of EO payloads.
• Familiarity with mission-level performance requirements including NIIRS (image quality), Modulation Transfer Function (MTF), Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR), Minimum Detectable Target, and/or geolocation.
• Familiarity with mission-level phenomenology including solar-illuminated signal and thermal emission of objects and background/clutter and appropriate selection of spectral bands.

Benefits

At CACI, you will receive comprehensive benefits such as healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education, and time off benefits. Our broad and competitive mix of benefits options is designed to support and protect employees and their families.

You’ll have the autonomy to take the time you need through a unique flexible time off benefit and have access to robust learning resources to make your ambitions a reality.

Pay

The proposed salary range for this position is $131,800 - $290,000. There are a host of factors that can influence final salary including, but not limited to, geographic location, Federal Government contract labor categories and contract wage rates, relevant prior work experience, specific skills and competencies, education, and certifications.

Schedule

• Full time
• Up to 25% travel, primarily within the Continental US