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The Leidos National Security Sector is thrilled to announce our recent win of a large contract providing technical, engineering and system administration services in support of an exciting and interesting customer mission. This team has a career opportunity for a Senior System Engineer at our customer site in Columbia, MD. 

Job Summary

The Senior Systems Engineer will need to rely on their strong Radio Frequency (RF), collection system and data flow knowledge and experience to support our customer mission. This opportunity is for a hands on end-to-end Systems Engineer who will design systems, test, deploy and train.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Assist with the development of system requirements, functional requirements, and allocation of the same to individual hardware, software, facility, and personnel components
• Allocate real-time process budgets and error budgets to systems and subsystem components
• Generate alternative system concepts, physical architectures, and design solutions
• Develop system design solution that satisfies the system requirements and fulfills the functional analysis
• Participate in interface definition, design, and changes to the configuration between affected groups and individuals throughout the life cycle
• Derive from the system requirements an understanding of stakeholder needs, functions that may be logically inferred and implied as essential to system effectiveness
• Review and/or approve system engineering documentation to ensure that processes and specifications meet system needs and are accurate, comprehensive, and complete
• Provide technical direction for the development, engineering, interfacing, integration, and testing of specific components of complex hardware/software systems to include requirements elicitation, analysis and functional allocation, conducting systems requirements reviews, developing concepts of operation and interface standards, developing system architectures, and performing technical/non-technical assessment and management as well as end-to-end flow analysis
• Develop scenarios (threads) and an Operational Concept that describes the interactions between the system, the user, and the environment, that satisfies operational, support, maintenance, and disposal need
• Conduct quantitative analysis in non-functional system performance areas like Reliability, Maintainability, Vulnerability, Survivability, Producibility, etc.)
• Establish and follow a formal procedure for coordinating system integration activities among multiple teams, ensuring complete coverage of all interfaces

Security Clearance Requirement:

• Must possess active TS/SCI with polygraph clearance to be considered for this role.

Qualifications:

• Fourteen (14) years’ experience as a SE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity is required.
• Bachelor’s degree in System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or 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.
• Experience with Linux and Windows to support with system administration, troubleshooting, loading software, configuration of RF system network and software packages.
• Knowledge of RF/FORNSAT and collection systems and how they work as well as understand data flow
• Experience with DRT, NiFi, ONEROOF, DARKQUEST
• Experience with networking
• Experience with FORNSAT
• Experience with Tactical SIGINT

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Original Posting Date:

2024-12-02

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

Pay Range $122,200.00 - $220,900.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.