Senior Mission Needs Systems Engineer

Peraton is hiring a Senior Mission Needs Systems Engineer to join our Cyber Mission business unit in Jessup, MD. As a Systems Engineer on our team, you will support one of the largest enterprise-wide engineering contracts within the Intelligence Community. This is a full-time position requiring 1880 hours of support per year; and work is performed at a customer location. As a Senior Mission Needs Systems Engineer on our team you will provide systems engineering support to the customer’s high-level end-to-end IT requirements definition by supporting the predesign step of the customer’s enhanced solution process. You will support writing the Mission Need requests (high-level functional system requirements) and provide analysis of the mission needs in development, including initial scoping, identification of deficiencies to be resolved by the solution, identification of affected domains and potential remedies to be evaluated. Additionally, you will support the initial scoping and categorization of the effort required to provide the solution, which shall be graphically depicted and presented to decision-making boards. 

Individual Capabilities/Experience Required:

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related discipline and at least 15 years of systems engineering experience. A Master’s or PhD Degree may be substituted for two years of experience. Note: A High School Diploma or GED plus 19 years of systems engineering experience would also be acceptable.
• Position requires TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.

Individual Capabilities/Experience Desired:

• Familiarity with the customer’s environment, domains, programs and projects. Of note, especially helpful if familiar with customer acquisition process.
• Significant experience with Intelligence Community customers, their missions and infrastructures.
• Demonstrated ability to translate user interviews/observations into domain descriptions, workflow diagrams, and identify problem areas within.
• Employ sound system engineering and human-machine interaction principles to develop, vet with customers, and refine high-level conceptual designs in response to identified problems.
• Ability to establish and maintain strong working relationships with customers.
• Demonstrated customer interface experience in eliciting technical requirements.
• Experience working on project development from requirements definition to deployment.

Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees working on this critical National Security program, which include heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for you and your dependents, 25 days of PTO accrued annually up to a generous PTO cap and eligible to participate in an attractive bonus plan.