Location: Colorado Springs, CO
Work Arrangement: On-Site, Office and Customer Sites
Employment Type: Direct Placement
Experience Level: Multiple Levels
Salary Range: $56,200 to $118,600 Annually
Sign-On Bonus: Up to $5,000
Citizenship: U.S. Citizenship Required
Clearance: Ability to Obtain a Secret Clearance Required
Position Overview
We are recruiting Systems Engineers for direct placement opportunities in Colorado Springs, Colorado. These positions support the maintenance, sustainment, improvement, and modernization of six Ground-Based Radar systems, including Upgraded Early Warning Radars (UEWRs), the Perimeter Acquisition Radar Characterization System (PARCS), and associated integration laboratories.
The Systems Engineer will work alongside systems, software, and hardware engineering teams to develop and implement approved modernization efforts within established performance, cost, and schedule objectives. The goal is to maintain operational capability while seamlessly integrating new technologies into existing radar systems.
The engineer will support the logical and systematic conversion of product requirements into total system solutions while accounting for technical, schedule, and cost constraints. Activities may include functional analysis, timeline analysis, trade studies, requirements allocation, interface definition, architecture development, verification and validation, system integration, and operational performance analysis.
Depending on experience, candidates may support or lead technical tasks, projects, or teams.
Responsibilities
- Support systems engineering activities for the maintenance, sustainment, improvement, and modernization of Ground-Based Radar systems.
- Collaborate with systems, software, and hardware engineering teams to develop and implement modernization efforts within performance, cost, and schedule objectives.
- Translate customer and product requirements into integrated system solutions.
- Perform functional analysis, timeline analysis, detailed trade studies, requirements allocation, and interface definition studies.
- Translate customer requirements into hardware, software, and engineering specifications.
- Develop and evaluate implementation approaches, techniques, and tools to identify efficient technical solutions.
- Support concept of operations development and formulation.
- Perform requirements definition, analysis, engineering, and management activities.
- Support system architecture, system analysis, and system design.
- Develop and analyze interface and data architectures.
- Support system verification and validation.
- Support systems integration and operational performance analysis.
- Perform lifecycle cost analysis and estimation.
- Support decision analysis and Physical Configuration Analysis (PCA).
- Support information technology and infrastructure engineering activities as applicable.
- Evaluate areas such as floor layout, power and cooling, data storage, infrastructure management, backup, monitoring, operating systems, directory services, identity management, access management, and automation.
- Support the transition of new technologies into operational radar environments.
Required Qualifications
- U.S. Citizenship required.
- Ability to obtain a Secret security clearance.
- Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field, with Systems Engineering preferred.
- Relevant full-time professional systems engineering experience appropriate to the position level.
- For mid-level positions, 5 or more years of relevant full-time professional experience is expected.
- For senior positions, 18 or more years of relevant professional experience is expected.
- Ability to work independently or as part of a multidisciplinary engineering team.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience applying engineering principles and techniques while performing research, analysis, hardware, software, or systems design, testing, or operations.
- Experience analyzing user and mission needs, assessing existing system capabilities, and identifying capability gaps.
- Ability to apply innovative techniques when investigating solutions to system gaps, test needs, or technical problems.
- Experience designing, developing, testing, or implementing hardware, software, network, or database solutions.
- Knowledge of UEWR and PARCS radar systems and technologies supporting ground-based Missile Warning, Missile Defense, and Space Domain Awareness missions.
- Experience developing integrated technical modernization plans based on trade studies, analyses of alternatives, or similar technical studies.
- Demonstrated knowledge of systems engineering processes and practices, including experience with the DoD Architecture Framework (DoDAF).
- Demonstrated experience taking technology from concept through implementation across multiple programs.
- Experience communicating with senior organizational leaders and stakeholders to formulate, review, and execute technical plans and deliverables.
- Experience migrating legacy radar systems to modern digital engineering, digital transformation, and Agile development environments.
- Experience conducting trade studies and analyses of alternatives to enhance enterprise capabilities.
- Experience creating Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) models.
- Experience developing architectures across multiple engineering disciplines to meet program objectives.
- Experience developing short-, medium-, and long-term architectural visions, purchase plans, roadmaps, sparing plans, and obsolescence equipment replacement plans.
- Experience with concept of test and training event planning, requirements definition and capture, analysis and engineering, system analysis, and system design.
- Test and Evaluation experience with the Missile Defense System (MDS), Integrated Tactical Warning/Attack Assessment (ITW/AA), Space Surveillance Network (SSN), UEWR, or PARCS.
- Previous SENSOR or SMORS program experience.
- Experience working independently and as part of a technical team.
- Depending on experience level, ability to lead a task, project, or team with minimal guidance from senior staff.
About the Opportunity
This direct placement opportunity provides the chance to contribute to the modernization and sustainment of Ground-Based Radar systems supporting critical Missile Warning, Missile Defense, and Space Domain Awareness missions.
The Systems Engineer will work across requirements engineering, system architecture, MBSE, modernization planning, verification and validation, integration, and operational performance analysis while collaborating with hardware, software, and systems engineering teams.
Candidates may be considered across multiple experience levels, with opportunities for more experienced engineers to lead technical tasks, projects, and teams. The position is performed on-site in Colorado Springs across office and customer-site environments and includes a sign-on bonus of up to $5,000.
