Jobs at Markon Cooperative, Inc.

Supports strategic planning, operational analysis, and program integration for Intelligence Community facilities, logistics, and service operations. Develops long-term plans, tracks budgets and milestones, evaluates operational data, coordinates stakeholders, assesses facility requirements, develops cost estimates, and briefs senior government leadership. The role also supports infrastructure modernization, contingency planning, process improvement, and resource allocation.

Performs systems engineering for DoD programs, including requirements management, architecture and design development, systems engineering documentation, interface definition, verification planning, configuration coordination, and allocation of requirements to hardware, software, facilities, and personnel. Develops information assurance requirements and security mechanisms while supporting technical reviews, integrated product teams, work breakdown structures, and integrated master plans.

Defines, analyzes, documents, and manages technical requirements for Intelligence Community capabilities. Supports project planning, configuration and risk management, technical assessments, capability validation, testing, and transition of research concepts into mission-ready systems. Coordinates with stakeholders, test teams, and targeting personnel; identifies technical risks, evaluates performance and reliability, forecasts enabling technologies, and recommends improvements. Maintains requirements and project documentation using Microsoft Office applications.

Supports an intelligence community customer across the systems engineering lifecycle. Responsibilities include developing Concept of Operations documents, capturing and allocating requirements, supporting project planning, integration and testing, conducting RF systems characterization testing, coordinating technical meetings, managing risks, and preparing Control Gate briefings. The role requires extensive systems engineering and RF communications experience, strong stakeholder communication skills, and an active TS/SCI clearance with Full Scope Polygraph.

Serves as a senior technical authority supporting intelligence community capabilities from concept through deployment. Leads requirements development, technical risk assessments, CONOPS development, technology forecasting, vendor design analysis, project planning, systems integration, testing, and operational transition. Coordinates stakeholders, vendors, and multidisciplinary engineering teams to ensure solutions align with mission needs and are technically sound, testable, traceable, and deployable.

Provides technical leadership for integrating, validating, and transitioning complex Sponsor-developed capabilities. Coordinates requirements across stakeholders, manages schedules, resources, configuration, and risks, develops project plans, assesses system integrity and performance, and supports testing and verification. Leads high-risk integration efforts involving multiple systems, interfaces, dependencies, and mission requirements for an Intelligence Community client.

Coordinates, integrates, and validates Sponsor-developed capabilities for an Intelligence Community client. Manages technical requirements, project plans, schedules, resources, configuration, and risks while identifying integration issues and recommending solutions. Collaborates with stakeholders and test teams to validate interfaces and maintain mission integrity, performance, and reliability. Produces project documentation using Microsoft Office applications.

Lead systems architecture, requirements development, technical integration, design reviews, risk management, and verification for high-assurance encryption devices. Provide technical direction across hardware, software, FPGA, and mechanical engineering teams; oversee system testing and validation; develop government technical deliverables; communicate with stakeholders; and mentor multidisciplinary engineers.

Lead strategic technical planning, roadmaps, governance, and project integration for complex Intelligence Community network and telecommunications initiatives. Manage IT project schedules, risks, dependencies, resources, requirements, technical documentation, and executive briefings. Provide guidance on network architecture, satellite communications, modernization, and systems integration while coordinating cross-functional teams. Drive capacity planning, process improvement, change management, and governance activities across multiple technical projects.

Develops, maintains, tests, deploys, documents, and troubleshoots user-accessible websites and high-performance web applications. The role includes planning website solutions, creating interface features and database integrations, supporting REST-based applications, and collaborating with management and IT teams. Work supports a federal program in Annapolis Junction, Maryland, with an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph required.

Develops and maintains backend software by analyzing requirements, designing solutions, debugging defects, integrating systems, implementing algorithms, querying databases, documenting code, and supporting testing. The role also provides process improvement recommendations and may lead software development activities. Work supports an intelligence-community program in the Annapolis Junction, Maryland area with limited telework.

Develops and distributes internal communications, workforce messages, newsletters, web pages, and digital content. Manages editorial quality control, mass email distribution, accessibility and regulatory compliance, website issue resolution, stakeholder collaboration, and communications strategy. Serves as a technical liaison among users, managers, developers, IT, and vendors while managing multiple priorities and deadlines.

Provides Agile coaching and subject matter expertise while managing deliverables, reviewing project and invoice documentation, identifying compliance issues, analyzing cost impacts, and resolving client, partner, and vendor concerns. Supports costing, funding, audits, invoicing, information systems, and program management functions. Requires extensive Agile systems management experience and an active TS/SCI clearance with current CI polygraph.

Supports information systems security operations for classified DoD and Intelligence Community systems. Maintains RMF authorization, security documentation, compliance assessments, configuration records, access controls, and operational security posture. Monitors events and analyzes logs using Splunk, evaluates vulnerabilities, supports incident response, reviews system changes, and coordinates corrective actions with technical and security teams.

Designs, develops, and maintains production-ready AI/ML applications for intelligence missions, focusing on LLM integration, agentic workflows, and RAG pipelines. Builds Python services, REST APIs, backend components, database workflows, and enterprise integrations. Optimizes AI systems for performance, scalability, reliability, and usability while evaluating model effectiveness and applying software engineering best practices. Requires collaboration with technical stakeholders to deliver mission-focused capabilities.

Provides senior mechanical engineering and Owner’s Representative construction management services for DoD renovation and new construction projects. Responsibilities include heat load calculations, mechanical design, contractor proposal and design reviews, engineering analyses, technical documentation, testing and commissioning support, pre-construction site walks, scope development, and construction surveillance to ensure compliance with approved designs.

Designs and integrates LLM and agent orchestration workflows, RAG pipelines, vector databases, memory services, MCP tool integrations, and AI governance controls. Evaluates and optimizes models, routing, agent behavior, safety, and performance through automated benchmarking and observability. Partners with data scientists and mission analysts to productionize AI capabilities for DoD mission environments and researches emerging AI technologies.

Develops and integrates CNO tools, provides embedded operations support, conducts software and device vulnerability research, and creates rapid software prototypes. The role involves collaborating with intelligence customers, documenting and presenting findings, and applying software development, reverse engineering, cybersecurity, and vulnerability analysis expertise across Linux, Windows, and mobile platforms.

Designs and integrates LLM and agent orchestration workflows, model routing, RAG pipelines, vector databases, memory services, and MCP tool integrations. Evaluates and tunes models, builds automated AI evaluation pipelines, implements governance guardrails, and transitions research prototypes into production AI capabilities. The role also researches emerging AI technologies and requires collaboration with data scientists and mission analysts in a DoD mission environment.

Designs and operates cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, containerized platforms, and lifecycle management systems for enterprise AI applications. The role supports model and agent deployment, monitoring, scaling, security, observability, and RMF/ATO accreditation while collaborating with AI/ML engineers and data scientists. It requires extensive DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes, pipeline architecture, and AI model lifecycle experience, plus an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.