SIGINT Misson Analyst

Company Description

Founded in 1989, SOSi is among the largest private, founder-owned technology and services integrators in the defense and government services industry. We deliver tailored solutions, tested leadership, and trusted results to enable national security missions worldwide.

Job Description

Supports mission analysis assessments and studies for the SIGINT Directorate. Operates at the System Program Office (SPO) level. Manages development, test, and systems assessment methodologies and tools such as STK, SOAP, MATLAB, and potentially organically developed software. Candidate must possess a detailed understanding of government satellite systems, have strong insight into SIGINT mission fundamentals, mission planning and operations, and ability to perform analysis on complex space systems. The position requires in-depth knowledge of satellite relevancy to Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community unique missions.

• Provide expert mission analysis and technical support to define technical spacecraft and ground requirements, support concept development for new capabilities, create models to analyze mission data, understand "end to end" mission performance of a system, and work with mission users, stakeholders, and development contractors.
• Perform various mission analyses to include RF, signal processing, orbital, geolocation, pointing, antenna, SOI collection, frequency management, and/or communications performance. Evaluate expected performance against mission needs. Track, monitor, analyze and provide recommendations for future mission enhancements.
• Maintain situational awareness of current operations, high-interest events, and other relevant reporting that drives mission operation focus and mission planning.
• Perform trade studies using variety of data sources and tools to inform requirements, system capabilities, and architectures, including assessing developer recommendations.
• Assist in requirements definition, analysis and engineering, system architecting, system and design, interface and data architectures, validation and verification, systems integration, and system & operational performance analysis.
• Perform assessments of requirements and capabilities to include, but not limited to, geolocation potential, area search/update intervals, signal collection analysis, coverage.
• Support end-to-end performance evaluation activities of systems, such as identifying performance differences among baseline, enhanced baseline, and alternate architectures. Perform research and validation of enterprise level requirements as applicable to specific satellite architectures.
• Support system architecting and planning studies, requirements development and verification, and compliance analyses against enterprise level requirements. Performs mission analysis of satellite architectures to determine coverage and other performance metrics.
• Provide advice and information on physical science aspects of satellite support to multiple mission domains and battle space awareness planning and mission assessments.
• Develop productive relationships with prime contractor counterparts, functional counterparts, and other payload and ground system subject matter experts.
• Review complex technical design documentation and provide formal and informal feedback.
• Liaise with mission analysis and acquisition teams to ensure completeness across the acquisition.
• Collaborate with armed services and agencies on engineering standards, space frequency utilization, modulation techniques, multiplexing schemes, and mission requirements.
• Be familiar with translation of multiple mission domain awareness operational requirements into satellite specifications and provide mission analysis support to legacy, current and future satellite programs.
• Prepares reports, white papers, and briefings for senior management and external organizations.
• Develop and maintain tools and databases used for related satellite mission assessment activities.

Qualifications

• TS/SCI with Poly.
• 10-20 years of relevant experience.
• Bachelor's Degree in an Engineering, physics, math.
• Solid understanding of Signals Intelligence satellite systems and architectures.
• Experience in Matlab, Python or similar.
• Experience in NRO, IC, and DoD satellite programs, operations, and mission planning and management.
• Excellent interpersonal, leadership, team building and problem-solving skills with an ability to be effective in a government/contractor team environment.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated sustained superior performance.
• Availability to travel domestically.

Additional Information

Work Environment

• Working conditions are normal for an office environment.
• Fast paced, deadline-oriented environment.
• May require periods of non-traditional working hours including consecutive nights or weekends (if applicable).

Working at SOSi

All interested individuals will receive consideration and will not be discriminated against for any reason.