Senior Systems Integrator - C-sUAS

Travel Requirement: As needed, up to 25%.

Security Clearance: Active DoD Secret clearance.

About the role

Sherpa 6 is seeking an experienced Senior Counter‑Unmanned Systems (C‑sUAS) Systems Integrator to provide direct technical and program support to government capability managers in Fort Belvoir, VA. This senior systems‑integration role brings together sensors, command‑and‑control systems, networks, data feeds, cyber capabilities, and defeat systems to deliver cohesive, operational C‑sUAS capabilities. The successful candidate will work closely with government capability managers, military operators, engineers, acquisition stakeholders, original equipment manufacturers, software developers, and system vendors.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior technical advisor to government C‑sUAS capability managers.
• Translate operational challenges and mission requirements into executable technical and integration activities.
• Develop and maintain C‑UAS mission threads, use cases, system requirements, interface requirements, and acceptance criteria.
• Integrate sensors, command‑and‑control systems, networks, data services, effectors, and supporting software.
• Analyze and troubleshoot data flows, component connectivity, protocols, timing, configurations, and interoperability issues.
• Support integration across air, ground, surface, and subsurface unmanned‑system threat sets.
• Coordinate technical activities across government organizations, OEMs, software developers, and system vendors.
• Evaluate vendor capabilities, technical approaches, integration readiness, and proposed solutions.
• Develop system architectures, data‑flow diagrams, interface‑control documentation, configuration baselines, and integration records.
• Support network connectivity, data exchange, cybersecurity, access, and system‑hardening activities within the authorized scope.
• Plan and support laboratory, field, and operational test events, including test objectives, scenarios, measures of performance/effectiveness, test cards, and pass/fail criteria.
• Support system setup, test execution, troubleshooting, data collection, and daily operational reporting.
• Analyze test results, identify root causes, recommend corrective actions, and verify issue closure.
• Gather feedback from military operators and assess operational suitability, usability, and mission effectiveness.
• Develop leadership briefings, executive summaries, technical recommendations, courses of action, and decision‑support materials.
• Support acquisition, fielding, sustainment, and configuration‑management decisions.
• Maintain integration backlogs, technical action trackers, capability‑gap registers, risk registers, and configuration records.
• Develop integration guides, technical playbooks, checklists, lessons learned, and troubleshooting references.
• Provide technical continuity as C‑UAS technologies, threats, operational requirements, and vendor solutions evolve.

Requirements

• Active Secret security clearance.
• 8+ years of relevant experience in systems integration, military operations, engineering, communications, C‑UAS, electronic warfare, robotics, autonomous systems, or a related technical field.
• Demonstrated experience integrating multiple hardware and software components into an operational system.
• Working knowledge of counter‑unmanned‑system mission areas, including detection, identification, classification, tracking, command and control, and defeat.
• Experience troubleshooting system interfaces, data flows, networks, APIs, protocols, or component‑connectivity issues.
• Ability to translate operational requirements into technical tasks, integration plans, and measurable deliverables.
• Experience supporting military operators, government program offices, capability managers, or acquisition organizations.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate and resolve technical issues involving multiple vendors and government stakeholders.
• Experience planning or supporting laboratory, field, or operational test events.
• Ability to develop clear technical documentation, leadership briefings, executive summaries, and decision‑support products.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and exercise sound judgment in a fast