Sensor Integration Engagement Engineer

Location: Springfield, Virginia

Clearance Required: Must be a U.S. Citizen and possess a current and active TS/SCI clearance granted by the Department of Defense or an Intelligence Community agency. Must be able to pass a Counterintelligence (CI) Polygraph.

Background:

Assured Consulting Solutions provides strategic and innovative solutions for customer needs across the business, technology, and organizational spectrum. As a member of our team, you will have the chance to work with customers that are both Government and industry leaders and technology innovators.

We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Systems Engineer/SETA to serve as a Contractor Lead for Sensor Integration Engagement to provide both coordination and SETA/systems engineering expertise to accelerate the adoption of new Technologies into the NSG enterprise. The candidate is responsible, in consultation with the DD AOC, to work with relevant subject matter experts in Analysis and Research to coordinate participation in sensor integration activities. They shall work with all Analysis stakeholders (along with other acquisition offices in CIO-T, Research and elsewhere) to document the enduring sensor integration needs and verify work developed and sustained by the appropriate IPA projects.

This position will report directly to the Deputy Director for the Office of Weapons and Counterproliferation (AOC).

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Coordinate participation with sensor integration activities, including aspects described in Section 3.1 of the SOW.
• Provide input to and help to draft/review sections of utility assessments for new sensors.
• Work to decompose sensor integration activities into enduring requirements and engage with IPA product managers to see those requirements implemented in the enterprise baseline.
• Engage with mission customers and users to shape and define future capabilities.
• Participate in customer and program strategic and tactical planning activities.
• Participate in the development of system architectures to evolve mission services.
• Assess new technologies that have the potential to support sensor integration for fit-for-use by mission services, employing quantifiable and traceable criteria to enable future decision making.
• Conduct AoAs and provide data-driven recommendations
• Identify project key decision points and provide Go/No-Go recommendations.
• Conduct user outreach to communicate planned architecture changes, operational concepts, and project status, and accept user inputs for optimization of delivery plans.
• Produce weekly activity reports for use by government customers and the program.
• Develop and present effective technical presentations to senior management and to technical/non-technical audiences; must possess strong written and verbal communications skills.
• Explain technical issues clearly/accurately to technical/non-technical audiences; and conduct issue coordination within and across agencies.
• Work with customers to resolve technical and programmatic issues

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / Mathematics / Physical Sciences / Engineering or related technical experience
• 12 years of systems engineering, systems integration, or systems development experience
• Experience in government or industry in relevant work areas including: DoD/IC Acquisition Process, SAFe Agile acquisition product ownership, merging disparate architectures, CONOPS development, automation and computer vision, conducting imagery and/or geospatial analysis.
• Experience with artificial intelligence, machine learning or workflow automation

Desired Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Computer Science / Mathematics / Physical Sciences / Engineering or related technical experience
• At least two years’ experience within the last 5 years with artificial intelligence, machine learning or workflow automation
• 2 years of experience in one or more disciplines of GEOINT analytic tradecraft and analysis production system development
• 2 years of experience in government acquisition processes
• 1 years of experience in agile Systems development
• Demonstrated experience with efforts to manage the development and improvement of sensors and system architecture.

Essential Job Functions:

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires employers to focus on the essential functions of a position to determine whether an individual is qualified. Essential job functions are the fundamental job duties that an applicant or employee must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact ACS Human Resources at (703) 662-5062.

The physical requirements of this position include:

• Excellent communication and coordination skills. Strong writing skills. Ability to work in a govt site cubicle environment.

Education Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, mathematics, physical sciences, engineering, or other related disciplines.

Years of Experience:

• Requires a minimum of 12 years of work experience 6 years of which is in the DoD and/or Intelligence Community.

Position Type: Full-Time

Shift: Day

Export Control: For all positions requiring access to technology/software source code that is subject to export control laws, employment with the company is contingent on either verifying U.S.-person status or obtaining any necessary license. The applicant will be required to answer certain questions for export control purposes, and that information will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. ACS may choose not to apply for a license for such individuals whose access to export-controlled technology or software source code may require authorization and may decline to proceed with an applicant on that basis alone.

Assured Consulting Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. Minorities, females, disabled and protected veterans are urged to apply. ACS' utilization of any external recruitment or job placement agency is predicated upon its full compliance with our equal opportunity/affirmative action policies. ACS does not accept resumes from unsolicited recruiting firms. We pay no fees for unsolicited services.

If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact ACS Human Resources at (703) 662-5062.

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