System Engineer Imagery Mid Level

System Engineer Imagery Mid Level:

Level 2:

Skills and Tasks:

• Complex -develops new concepts and processes. Analyzes root causes and resolves issues.

• Supports more junior level technicians and specialists in their activities. 

• Can perform all tasks of lower level technicians or specialists.

Individual Work / Teamwork or Leadership / Management:

• Works individually, actively participates on integrated teams, and may also lead a task, project or team

Guidance:

• Requires guidance and direction from more senior level technicians, specialists, and managers on when dealing with new, uncertain situations. 

• Provides guidance to lower level technicians and specialists.

The Role:

• Using a holistic approach, designs develops, evaluates and modifies end-to-end systems and systems-oriented products through their entire life cycle.

• Generates quantifiable requirements based on customer description, system planning and design, and acquisition logistics.

• Ensures requirements comply with client requirements and government standards through formal verification methods.

• Translates high-level product development strategies into system requirement specifications and works with other engineering disciplines to develop lower-level detailed implementation requirements.

• Establishes and coordinates the development of standards, practices, and procedures as related to overall product development.

• Designs interfaces and brings system elements together so they work as a whole.

• Assesses performance using evaluation criteria and technical performance measures.

• Customer liaison and support for business development activities and to understand and shape requirements.

• Participates in system conceptual design and documentation of the design concepts.

• Translates high-level product development strategies into system requirement specifications and works with multi-discipline engineering teams to develop lower level detailed requirements.

• Participates in design reviews of components (hardware and software) to ensure applicability to the current system and traceability of requirements through compliance verification and validation.

• Generates system level requirements verification procedures and customer acceptance test procedures.

• Reviews test plans/procedures and ensure they meet the objectives of the contractual requirements and participates in the testing process to validate requirements.

• Develop/assess product quality requirements and specifications.

• Define product format requirements for new products to meet integration and interoperability requirements of National System for Geospatial-Intelligence (NSG).

• Apply image science knowledge/experience to develop test plans and procedures to assess data quality and accuracy.

• Identify data needs to adequately perform product assessments to meet test objectives.

• Test software functionality and quality. Work with government and commercial vendors to resolve discrepancies.

• Apply image science knowledge/experience to quantify the visual quality of imagery products and work with developers to troubleshoot causes of errors

• Develop engineering-quality verification tools.

• Quantify success criteria for readiness review transitions.

• Communicate customer mission and results.

Education & Experience:

• 5-8 Years with BS/BA, or 3-6 Years with MS/MA, 0-3 Years with Ph.D.

• Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in System Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics, Software Engineering or in a related Engineering

The Candidate:

• Experience in multiple remote sensing phenomenologies (for example EO/IR/SAR)

• Knowledge of NSG tasking, collection, processing, exploitation, and dissemination (TCPED) image chain

• Experience with sensor imaging systems, products, and exploitation processes

• Strong understanding of the systems engineering lifecycle to include independent testing and data verification, requirements, and development of the concept of operations.

• Strong written and oral communication skills, with emphasis on the briefing, to obtain decisions and solve technical issues and test plans/reports writing

• Ability to work independently as well as part of a team

• Willingness to learn, solve problems and perform in a dynamic work environment

• Experience working in a DoD or IC operational environment.

Security Clearance:

• TS/SCI