Model Based Systems Engineer

About the role

This role puts you at the heart of efforts to strengthen the NRO's space resiliency posture — ensuring our nation's most critical space assets remain ready, reliable, and effective. Your work will help shape the technical direction of systems that support national security every single day.

Responsibilities

• Applies systems engineering, systems modeling, product lifecycle management, and related techniques, tools, and methodologies to construct, steward, curate, and leverage end-to-end digital content for client programs.
• Support the capture of customer needs and development and refinement of requirements, architecture and concept of operations for future systems that will satisfy those needs within a model.
• Support the development of models of future systems that will represent the architecture, concept of operations and requirements.
• Exercise thought leadership and practical systems engineering application that enables the evolution of repeatable systems engineering approach that uses MBSE principles and practice.
• Aid in the development of systems engineering requirements and artifacts required for acquisition documents (Statement of Work, Request for Proposal) and support assessment of proposals.
• Work across multiple organizations supporting the identification and definition of future space capability needs and the capabilities that will support those needs.
• Coordinate cross-organizational discussions with subject matter experts and stakeholders concerning the development of technical aspects of the system.
• Identify, understand, track and manage technical and acquisition dependencies.
• Frequent interactions with government, SETA, FFRDC, external Stakeholders, and development contractors.

Requirements

• Active Top Secret/SCI Clearance with Polygraph.
• 10+ years of experience with system engineering processes and demonstrable expertise developing ground architectures for mission-critical systems.
• In-depth experience with Digital Engineering principles, including model-based systems engineering (MBSE) approaches and tools.
• Practical understanding of Agile practices within system acquisition environments.
• Demonstrated expertise in government acquisition strategies, documentation development, and full lifecycle program management.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, including the ability to brief government stakeholders at all levels.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's and nine (9) years or more experience; Masters and seven (7) years or more experience; PhD or JD and four (4) years or more experience.

Skills

• System engineering processes.
• Systems modeling and product lifecycle management.
• Model-based systems engineering (MBSE) approaches and tools.
• Agile practices within system acquisition environments.
• Government acquisition strategies, documentation development, and full lifecycle program management.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

$160,001 - $200,000

Schedule

Full-Time

Shift

Day