Acuity Innovations LLC is a small, woman-owned defense contracting company that provides enterprise architecture, solution design, digital engineering, defensive cyberspace operations, system integration, and test and evaluation products and services that improve performance and decrease decision timelines. Our fundamental, repeatable service offering is bound in architecting, designing, securing, integrating, and verifying the operational readiness of data ecosystems.

Do you want to be part of a unique, small business that differentiates itself by:

• Delivering the best products, integrated systems, and mission capabilities for the warfighter
• Building long-term relationships and treating its employees as family
• Deploying small but powerful High-Performance Teams, like elite Special Forces teams to each task
• Collaborating within and across the Acuity Innovations teams as well as with the customer
• Providing a growth path to partnership/ownership opportunities

If you have this type of passion and desire to be part of a collaborative team environment with the innovation, initiative, and confidence to make things better, then Acuity Innovations may be the right place to realize your personal and professional goals. 

Package includes:

• Competitive salary
• 3 weeks paid time off
• 11 Federal Holidays
• Flexible Hours
• Benefits 
• Career Development/Mentorship Opportunities
• Company Sponsored Social Events

We seek technical individuals who will succeed in a highly collaborative work environment.

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Job Description: Acuity Innovations is seeking a Sustainment Systems Engineer to join our team in Colorado Springs, CO. An active Secret clearance is required.

The candidate will support sustainment activities for a diverse portfolio of strategic and tactical MILSATCOM space systems and infrastructure. The candidate will provide systems engineering and integration expertise in support of legacy space constellations including, but not limited to, Milstar, Advanced Enhanced High Frequency (AEHF) and Enhanced Polar System (EPS) and associated ground infrastructure, warfighter terminals and software applications such as Family of Beyond Line-of-Sight Terminal (FAB-T), Global Aircrew Strategic Network Terminal (Global-ASNT), Milstar Messaging System (MMS), Global Broadcast Service (GBS) and Ground Multiband Terminal (GMT) along with various other systems, subsystems and devices in a multidisciplinary environment.

The candidate will also have a direct impact on new MILSATCOM space systems transitioning from the acquisition community to operational stakeholders. We seek a self-starter who is capable of autonomous, on-the-job learning/growth. We seek technical individuals who will thrive by working in a collaborative work environment of small teams tackling the challenges of sustaining complex, space-based, telecommunication systems. The candidate will have a positive, tangible effect across all aspects of the space system while improving overall combat readiness.

Responsibilities:

• Provides the government customer with MILSATCOM systems engineering advisory assistance, including daily engineering consultation in support of sustainment activities
• Engages the Joint space warfighting community, supporting sustainment tasks through established space systems engineering processes and procedures for requirements development, technical solution generation (hardware and software) and fielding to space warfighters
• Evaluates and produces products of a technical nature using technical rigor, adequacy, completeness, and appropriate application of the specialty engineering disciplines as standard process
• Assists with technology readiness assessments; identify risks and issues with proposed technologies while collaborating with other teams (i.e., Test & Evaluation, Integrated Logistics Support, etc.)
• Supports waiver, deviation and deficiency reviews, system allocations, and compliance assessments
• Conducts system/enterprise level engineering analysis to identify sustainment problem areas; provide impact analysis, forecast potential failures, and present options with potential to mitigate these problems
• Performs engineering analysis on organizational technical processes; suggests process improvements that increase efficiency and/or effectiveness of operations as required
• Supports formulation of relevant information of sustainment objectives and performs engineering analysis and system-level assessments for decision support at various meetings and sustainment forums
• Perform studies and analyses of military air, surface, maritime, space and cyberspace missions to assess integration, system-of-systems factors, system vulnerability and survivability, system commonality, new technologies, enhancements, commercialization, cost effectiveness, and mission assurance
• Travel: Less than 10%

Required Skills & Experiences: 

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, mathematics, physics, computer science, or equivalent technical discipline
• 5 years of experience working with military or DoD civilian clients and managing professional relationships
• 4 years of experience working in a highly competitive multi-contractor environment
• 5 years of experience in architecture/requirements definition/analysis, acquisitions, engineering/design, fielding/integration, and verification or analysis
• 4 years of relevant systems engineering experience
• 4 years of relevant systems integration experience
• 4 years of relevant experience engaging government customers to advance projects and initiatives at varying degrees of complexity through engineering management
• Must be able to demonstrate engineering principles and concepts
• Expertise with requirements development and analysis, and the development of systems engineering-related documents including requirements/specifications, interface control documents, and validation & verification plans
• Solid analytical and problem-solving skills; able to sort through complex issues and develop clear solutions, provide in-depth technical assessments and identify issues and risks
• Effective interpersonal and team player skills to engage at both the peer and management levels
• Ability to coordinate with numerous stakeholders/customers from DoD agencies to commercial industry
• Clear and concise written, verbal communications and presentation skills; able to clearly articulate ideas, recommendations and options to the customer

Preferred Skills & Experiences: 

• MS degree in engineering, physics, biology, chemistry, mathematics, computer science, network and telecommunications; information systems, information technology, or computer information systems
• 6 years of experience in a DoD program office with understanding of DoD acquisition processes and compliance with government instructions; especially prior military/civilian experience working with space systems
• 6 years of experience working with strategic & tactical MILSATCOM space systems (spacecraft, uplinks/downlinks, command & control, networks and/or user communities)
• Knowledge of Digital Engineering (DE) or Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) applications (i.e., SparxEA, Cameo, etc)
• Current International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) certification (i.e. ASEP, CSEP)
• Knowledge of Agile software processes
• Active Top Secret clearance

Clearance: 

• All applicants selected will be subject to a background check and a security investigation and will need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.