Systems Engineer III

Job Description

SALARY RANGE $210,000 - $270,000/year.

DUTIES As a successful candidate for the Systems Engineer III role, you will analyze user requirements, concept of operations documents, and high-level system architectures to develop system requirements specifications. You will analyze system requirements and lead design and development activities. Guide users in formulating requirements, advise on alternative approaches, and conduct feasibility studies. Provide technical leadership for the integration of requirements, design, and technology. Incorporate new plans, designs, and systems into ongoing operations. Develop technical documentation, system architecture, and system design documentation. Guide system development and implementation planning through the assessment or preparation of system engineering management plans and system integration and test plans. Interact with the Government regarding systems engineering technical considerations and associated problems, issues, or conflicts. Assume ultimate responsibility for the technical integrity of work performed and deliverables associated with the systems engineering area of responsibility. Communicate effectively with other program personnel, government overseers, and senior executives.

Required Skills

SKILLS

• Manage and derive system requirements aligned with DoDAF, SOA, etc.

• Contribute to SEPs, ICDs, requirements specs, and interface documents

• Develop and allocate system and functional requirements to all components

• Resolve CCB and review items requiring cross-disciplinary coordination

• Design capabilities with Integrated Product Teams based on full evaluations

• Allocate real-time and error budgets to systems and subsystems

• Generate alternative concepts, architectures, and system designs

• Define verification methods, evaluation criteria, and written plans

• Create system design solutions that fulfill requirements and analysis

• Provide input to WBS, work packages, and integrated master plans

• Define, manage, and update system interfaces throughout the lifecycle

• Translate system requirements into stakeholder-driven capabilities

• Derive complete, verifiable lower-level requirements from higher ones

• Establish and approve system/component definitions and interfaces

• Develop IA requirements, including CIA, authentication, access control, etc.

• Implement SOA and DoDAF-based architectural solutions and views

• Review and approve engineering documents for accuracy and completeness

• Store interface designs in shared formats and accessible repositories

• Perform risk assessments per risk management plans and quantify impact

• Plan early design verification with stakeholders to ensure compliance

• Create time-based function flow diagrams for analysis

• Control requirements changes with traceability, clarity, and stakeholder buy-in

• Maintain and update system baseline across development and O&M

• Support DoD and other certification and accreditation processes

• Support JCIDS document development, including ICDs, CDDs, and IA strategies

• Lead full lifecycle system engineering efforts across hardware/software

• Define operational concepts and use scenarios covering system, user, and environment

• Analyze non-functional metrics like reliability, maintainability, survivability

• Coordinate integration across teams, ensuring full interface coverage

• Conduct end-to-end trade analyses to balance system performance over the lifecycle

• Use modeling, simulation, and prototyping to mitigate risk and reduce costs

• Enforce configuration control over system and documentation changes

• Participate in Configuration Control Boards (CCB) as technical authority

• Design alternatives considering cost, reuse, complexity, risk, and expansion

• Develop and track risk responses, including EVM-based monitoring

• Stay current with agency and industry standards for consistency and interoperability

• Recommend solutions during Analysis of Alternatives based on defined criteria

• Direct engineering and integration of complex systems across all stages

• Improve integration strategies based on prior performance and rationale

• Fully define interfaces for software (data, stimulus) and hardware (electrical, mechanical)

QUALIFICATIONS Twenty (20) years of experience as a SE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity is required. Demonstrated experience in planning and leading Systems Engineering efforts is required. A bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or a related discipline from an accredited college or university is required. Five (5) years of additional SE experience may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.

Desired Skills

Knowledge and/or experience with:

• DoD SIGINT (3 years)

• Circuit Switched and Mobile Telephony signaling types, networks and systems, including audio encoding/decoding (9 years)

• Specific communications protocols (e.g., GSM, CDMA, 5G, HTS, etc.) and associated community tools

• Application Development for IPv4 and IPv6 packet-switched networks (i.e., L2, L3), protocols (i.e., VOIP), and technologies (VPNs, encapsulation)

• Digital forensics tools such as Wireshark

• Deep knowledge of the OSI network stack and associated protocols across layers 2-7.

• All protocol stacks for data transfer, to include but not limited to Routing protocols, Encapsulation, Tunneling, and encryption, legacy protocols (i.e., SONET)