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Principal Systems Engineer

Solidus Technical Solutions
Richardson, TX Full Time
POSTED ON 1/20/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/20/2025

Solidus is looking for a Principal Systems Engineer to join our systems engineering team. Our Engineers support technical direction and design to software agile development teams, and other Engineering personnel. They perform technical analyses and define how the system works creating use cases, system capability and feature designs, defining system interfaces and acceptance criteria. In this role, the candidate will provide engineering support for the implementation of a portion of the program’s systems engineering.

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The position is full time, on-site in Richardson TX.

Day in the life :

  • Collaborate with the multi-discipline engineering teams to design and develop software
  • Assist in providing technical information and clarification during the entire software development lifecycle; from conceptualization and design to development, testing, deployment, and operations
  • Perform solution decomposition from customer epics, to capabilities, to features, to stories according to SAFe Agile practices
  • Apply systems engineering expertise to feature designs to reduce overall risk to the software development effort
  • Engage with SMEs from other disciplines to fully understand the solution and document the designs.

What you will bring to the role :

  • US Citizenship and an Active TS / SCI
  • BS in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics and 8 years of prior relevant experience. Or advanced degree and 5 years of relevant experience. In absence of a degree, 12 years of relevant experience is required.
  • Demonstrated system engineering and technical experience with software systems development
  • Agile software development activities, including system level design specification and integration test and verification activities (full SE life cycle)
  • Domain experience in IC GEOINT, including familiarity with common GEOINT still imagery data formats
  • Development of ICDs, APIs, and system specifications as a primary author
  • Atlassian tool suite, including Jira and Confluence
  • Cloud or cloud-hybrid deployment environments
  • Ability to interact effectively with customer and consumer communities for technical exchange meetings and design briefings
  • Agile development team environment with multi-discipline engineers and stakeholders, developing system solutions to meet customer requirements, requirements decomposition, and experience with CONOPS development
  • Experience working on teams addressing solution definition, decomposition, design and acceptance criteria
  • Development of containerized software system architectures
  • Ability to function independently in the development and revisions of existing ICDs, APIs, and system specifications in response to contract modifications
  • Program experience with requirements development and / or requirements maintenance
  • Preferred :

  • Experience with streaming data formats including Full Motion Video and Moving Target Indicator data
  • Strong communications skills to support technical exchange meetings and design briefings
  • Full software development lifecycle using Agile methodology that ensures high quality software is built and released to end-users quickly and within cost and schedule parameters
  • MBSE processes and tools to capture systems design and elaboration in Cameo or similar tools
  • Domain experience with active data types supported by NSGPDDs
  • Thorough understanding of the 12 Factor App concepts for service development
  • Strong experience with Confluence as a communications medium
  • What we will bring :

    Solidus offers you an exciting opportunity to tackle the nation’s greatest challenges applying innovation and expertise to produce cutting-edge results that have a long-lasting impact. We offer outstanding benefits, generous PTO and much more! Apply today to learn why Solidus has a 4.9 / 5 Star rating on Glassdoor!

    Req ID : 4886

    Solidus is an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides equal employment opportunities regarding all terms and conditions of employment to all employees and qualified applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. The Company will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application and interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request an accommodation.

    Please Note : Solidus does not accept applications from agencies, 3rd party vendors, or applications with incomplete information.

    Pay : $114,000.00 - $171,000.00 per year

    Benefits :

  • 401(k) matching
  • Employee assistance program
  • Employee discount
  • Flexible schedule
  • Health savings account
  • Life insurance
  • Parental leave
  • Professional development assistance
  • Referral program
  • Relocation assistance
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Vision insurance
  • Schedule :

  • Monday to Friday
  • Security clearance :

  • Top Secret (Required)
  • Work Location : In person

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    Salary : $114,000 - $171,000

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