Systems Engineer Senior at Nextgenfed

Digital Engineering (DE) Systems Engineer (Senior):NextGen’s practice in Digital Engineering (DE) is growing. As such, we are seeking to hire a Senior Systems Engineer with experience in digital engineering to serve as a Team Lead for our Department of Homeland Security (DHS) customer. NextGen’s DE team builds high-fidelity digital representations of complex systems for commercial and Government customers employing the latest Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and Modeling, Simulation and Analysis (MS&A) approaches. The selected engineer will collaborate with fellow DE colleagues to solve challenging technical tasks while becoming an expert with and deploying cutting edge modeling and analysis tools. Establish and grow your Digital Engineering career with NextGen today! 

Responsibilities: 

Serve as end-to-end Project Engineer or Team Lead for advanced surveillance systems 

Provide technical leadership in planning and organizing project activities 

Execute and direct system evaluations/characterizations 

Prepare and document test procedures, limits, and instrumentation 

Assess technical proposals and coordinate with subject matter experts 

Organize and prioritize multiple concurrent projects under tight timelines 

Support development of domain awareness conceptual architectures 

Develop strategies to consolidate agency requirements and ensure interoperability 

Evaluate candidate systems where specifications are incomplete or undefined 

Support integration of inter- and intra-agency requirements into system designs 

Characterize emerging technologies and provide recommendations 

Apply MBSE and MS&A approaches to system analysis and architecture design 

Collaborate closely with stakeholders, customers, and partners to align objectives  

Develop Key Performance Parameters (KPPs) and document performance baselines 

Conduct iterative research and perform qualitative/quantitative analysis  

Analyze data using statistical and coverage tools; interpret results 

Prepare and deliver classified/unclassified presentations and briefings 

Deliver findings and recommendations from DE activities 

Collaborate with DHS S&T, federal agencies, industry, and academia Work within an Agile project management framework 

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, electrical engineering or similar 

5+ years employing Digital Engineering techniques including MBSE and/or MS&A 

Solid understanding of systems lifecycle processes 

Ability to develop systems engineering artifacts 

CONOPS, requirement specifications, IDD/ICDs, SDDs, test plans/reports, etc. 

Experience in Agile project management tools and methods 

Ability to analyze problems with a flexible and creative approach 

Ability to manage complex tasks and adapt to rapidly changing requirements 

Ability to learn new technologies rapidly and implement in a dynamic environment 

Verbal and written communication skills, attention to detail, and customer-facing skills 

Ability to obtain a DHS BI Top-Secret security clearance (U.S Citizenship is required) 

 

Desired Qualifications 

Domain experience working with radar, communication or EO/IR systems  

Experience or working knowledge of the RADES (RS4) software suite  

Experience with SysML and MBSE tools such as Cameo/MagicDraw  

Experience with GOTS MS&A tools (e.g., AFSIM, NGTS, OneSAF) 

Experience with COTS MS&A tools (e.g., AGI STK, MATLAB, Phoenix ModelCenter)) 

Experience with Data Science tools (e.g., Jupyter Notebooks, Tableau) 

Experience with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data and tools 

Experience with DoDAF (UDPM and/or UAF) 

Ability to develop new plugins/scripts for MBSE and MS&A tools/frameworks 

 Current DHS BI Top Secret clearance preferred

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