Systems Interface Engineer - Mid Level - Secret

Interface Engineer III

Job Location: Huntsville, AL, US Redstone Gateway 35802 - 100% On-Site

Clearance: Active DoD Secret

Relocation: May be considered for the right candidate

Job Description

The Interface Engineer will lead in authoring the development of ICDs and IDDs. This includes establishing new interfaces between external elements, including sensors, and other Command and Control Systems in support of a DoD program supporting MDA (Missile Defense Agency). Ensure the ICDs and IDDs created are to appropriate standards required of the program. Additionally, develop various behavioral diagrams to understand and document the requirements. Create requirements, captured in DOORS and at sufficient detail to provide clear understanding to the implementation teams. Primary responsibility will be developing and updating of multiple Interface Control Documents (ICDs) and Interface Design Documents (IDDs). Attend interface working group meetings with MDA customer and representatives of assigned external element engineering organization as well as support to program integration and test related efforts for the associated interface. Successful candidate may also be assigned to support other interface engineers in developing ICDs for other BMDS Elements, support requirements engineering, use case development, and logical architecture modeling tasks as SE department tasking requires. Support spiral leadership to assure interface artifacts and system assessment tasks required for the assigned sensor interface are completed when required.

Must have an active and transferable DoD SECRET (or higher) security clearance with current investigation at the required level. Must be able to maintain the required clearance

Required Education/Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, System Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience/combined education)
• Minimum 9 years of professional software engineering experience

Required Skills:

• Significant experience in authoring ICDs and IDDs that are DID compliant and to DoD Standards.
• Must be able to function as part of an experienced team in developing systems engineering products and artifacts while adhering to the program Systems Engineering Management Plan (SEMP) and other processes.
• Understanding of systems engineering process and principles.
• Proven track record of successfully applying system engineering principles to develop product solutions.
• Experience in requirements elicitation including the use behavior diagrams as an analysis tool to understand and decompose requirements.
• Demonstrated Systems Engineering skills and experience with interface engineering including authoring of Interface Control Documents (ICDS) and Interface Design Documents (IDDS), to include:
  • message definition and processing rules;
  • message formatting (e.g. XML, VMF, et al);
  • physical/network specifications and models, to include the ISO OSI model; physical/network topologies and devices;
  • network protocols (e.g. TCP/IP, UDP, et al)
  • Requirements engineering, and development of behavioral models and diagrams including use cases, sequence diagrams, and activity diagrams.
  • Excellent communication skills, both written and oral.

Desired Skills:

• Experience with authoring Missile Defense System (MDS) ICDs and IDDs is highly desirable.
• Requirements engineering, to include experience working with IBM Rational's Dynamic Object Oriented Requirements System (DOORS) is highly desirable.
• Risk Management Framework (RMF) -based cyber security, and experience with Agile or Iterative Development Methods are a plus.

Benefits:

Our client is located in beautiful, downtown Huntsville, AL, one of the fastest growing cities in the U.S.! They cultivate and foster an environment of integrity, open communication, work life balance, and career development. They are committed to investing in our employees by offering comprehensive health insurance options, a generous 401K plan, competitive salaries, continuous career growth opportunities, flexible schedules including remote work, mentoring and performance incentives.