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Independent Software

National security software and analytics

System Engineer 3

IT OperationsConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeFort Meade, MD, USANo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Strong experience leading systems engineering efforts for complex hardware and software systems.
  • Expertise in requirements analysis, functional decomposition, and requirements traceability.
  • Experience developing system architectures aligned to Department of Defense Architecture Framework and service-oriented architectures.
  • Experience with system integration, verification, validation, and test planning.
  • Strong background in configuration management and change control processes.
  • Experience conducting trade studies, risk assessments, and lifecycle analyses.
  • Knowledge of Information Assurance principles, including confidentiality, integrity, availability, and non-repudiation.
  • Experience defining and managing system interfaces across multiple engineering disciplines.
  • Familiarity with modeling, simulation, and prototyping to support system design decisions.
  • Strong documentation, briefing, and communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences.
  • A bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or a related discipline from an accredited college or university.
  • Twenty years of experience as a System Engineer supporting programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity.
  • Demonstrated experience planning and leading Systems Engineering efforts across the full system lifecycle.
  • Additional experience with system architectures, integration planning, and secure system environments.
  • Must possess an active Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information clearance with an appropriate polygraph.

Responsibilities

  • Analyze user requirements, concepts of operations, and high-level system architectures to develop system requirements specifications.
  • Lead system design and development activities, ensuring alignment with approved architectures and operational needs.
  • Guide users in formulating requirements, evaluating alternatives, and conducting feasibility studies.
  • Manage system and derived requirements to ensure delivery of production systems compatible with defined architectures such as Department of Defense Architecture Framework and service-oriented architecture.
  • Develop and maintain system architecture and system design documentation.
  • Contribute to and review systems engineering documentation, including Systems Engineering Plans, Requirements Specifications, Interface Control Documents, and Initial Capability Documents.
  • Support system development and implementation planning, including system integration and test plans.
  • Coordinate and resolve action items from Configuration Control Boards, design reviews, program reviews, and test reviews.
  • Participate in Integrated Product Teams to design and evaluate new system capabilities.
  • Generate alternative system concepts, architectures, and design solutions.
  • Allocate real-time process budgets and error budgets to systems and subsystems.
  • Define verification methods, processes, and evaluation criteria to ensure systems meet requirements.
  • Ensure effective configuration management of hardware, software, and documentation throughout the system lifecycle.
  • Serve as a member of Configuration Control Boards.
  • Conduct system trade studies and analyses of alternatives, considering life-cycle cost, risk, performance, and scalability.
  • Develop risk mitigation strategies, alternative courses of action, and fallback plans; monitor risks using earned value management data.
  • Provide technical direction for requirements elicitation, functional allocation, integration, testing, and end-to-end system flow analysis.
  • Fully define and manage system interfaces, including software, electrical, and mechanical characteristics.
  • Develop operational, system, services, and technical standards views using applicable Department of Defense Architecture Framework standards.
  • Apply validated models, simulations, and prototypes to reduce risk and cost.
  • Communicate with program personnel and government oversight organizations.

About the Company

Independent Software

National security software and analytics

Independent Software develops software, analytics and systems capabilities for United States national security customers. Its engineers and technical specialists work in areas such as cybersecurity, data science, cloud systems, signals analysis and mission-focused software development. The company supports complex government environments where security clearances, technical accuracy and close customer collaboration are central to delivery. Its employer identity is therefore a defense and intelligence technology contractor rather than a consumer software publisher. Its workforce brings together technical specialists, client delivery teams and business operations.

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