What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Systems Engineer- Technical Advisor position at Waypoint Human Capital?
Position Title: Sr Systems Engineer- Technical Advisor
Position Type: Onsite
Location: Chantilly, VA
Clearance: TS/SCI CI Poly
Description:
Waypoint’s client is seeking a career and customer-oriented Senior Systems Engineer / Technical Advisor to support the Mission Integration Directorate (MID) Technical Division. The ideal candidate will have a strong passion for providing intelligence support to the warfighter, an understanding of NRO decision-making processes, and familiarity with mission systems and capabilities. The role involves performing analyses and assessments of MID projects, advising on technical risks, and supporting MID outreach efforts. The candidate will also manage systems engineering actions, support technology development, and provide decision support for intelligence program budgeting.
Responsibilities:
Position Type: Onsite
Location: Chantilly, VA
Clearance: TS/SCI CI Poly
Description:
Waypoint’s client is seeking a career and customer-oriented Senior Systems Engineer / Technical Advisor to support the Mission Integration Directorate (MID) Technical Division. The ideal candidate will have a strong passion for providing intelligence support to the warfighter, an understanding of NRO decision-making processes, and familiarity with mission systems and capabilities. The role involves performing analyses and assessments of MID projects, advising on technical risks, and supporting MID outreach efforts. The candidate will also manage systems engineering actions, support technology development, and provide decision support for intelligence program budgeting.
Responsibilities:
- Conduct analyses and assessments of MID projects to ensure alignment with strategic directions, technology development plans, NRO requirements, and MID strategic goals and objectives.
- Advise MID government on technical risks associated with new and ongoing projects.
- Review, analyze, and assess technologies, system concepts, data, and information to recommend emerging technologies that meet MID needs.
- Support and coordinate MID outreach efforts with NRO offices, other government agencies, industry, and academia.
- Provide technical support and assessments on Intelligence Community (IC) activities involving technology, research, applied technology concepts, and technology demonstrations.
- Support, coordinate, and manage systems engineering actions and activities.
- Assist in establishing procedures and standards for managing technical development and architecture plans across the MID Enterprise.
- Assist in MID Enterprise assessments, planning, and visualization, including identifying transition and implementation opportunities.
- Review, analyze, comment on, and prepare staffing documents, including plans, policies, concepts of operation, technical architectures, initiatives, and programmatic documents.
- Maintain and articulate an awareness and understanding of NRO capabilities across various intelligence domains, including GEOINT, SIGINT, MASINT, and HUMINT.
- Understand ground and space-based architectures and their connections.
- Provide decision support, expertise, and advice for building future Intelligence Program Budget Submissions (IPBS), NRO Program Objective Memorandums (POM), Congressional Justification Books (CJB), and Congressional Budget Justification Book (CBJB) inputs, aligning MID efforts with IC requirements.
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience.
- 15 years of technical experience, including systems engineering.
- Experience in GEOINT, SIGINT, MASINT, HUMINT.
- Familiarity with ground and space-based architectures.
- Research and development experience.
- Cybersecurity experience.
- NRO experience and knowledge of NRO decision-making processes.
- Intelligence Community (IC) experience.
- Strong presentation skills (oral and written) for senior government managers.
- Innovative, proactive, and collaborative mindset.
- Ability to work across multiple functional disciplines, including technical, programmatic, financial, and business/contractual areas.
- Master’s degree in a science or engineering discipline.
