Captivation has built a reputation on providing customers exactly what is needed in a timely manner. Our team of engineers take pride in what they develop and constantly innovate to provide the best solution. Captivation is looking for software developers who can get stuff done while making a difference in support of the mission to protect our country.
Captivation Software is looking for a senior level systems engineer to capture, track, manage, report, broker, and enrich current and historical metadata for mission analytic workflow processes.
RequirementsSecurity Clearance:
- Must currently hold a Top Secret/SCI U.S. Government security clearance with a favorable Polygraph, therefore all candidates must be a U.S. citizen
- Twenty (20) years-experience as a SE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity is required
- Demonstrated experience in planning and leading Systems Engineering efforts is required.
- Bachelor’s degree in System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required
- Five (5) years of additional SE experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.
- Experience gathering, analyzing, and documenting user and system requirements
- Experience developing systems engineering artifacts such as requirements specifications, interface control documents, systems engineering plans, and related technical documentation
- Experience working directly with customers, users, and stakeholders to understand operational workflows and mission needs
- Ability to translate complex operational challenges into clear, structured requirements for technical teams
- Experience supporting workflow analysis, process improvement, or capability planning efforts
- Strong technical writing, communication, and documentation skills
- Ability to coordinate across multidisciplinary teams and maintain alignment between users, engineers, and leadership
- Strong organizational and problem-solving skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities
- Experience with Agency dataflow, compliance, policy, and data-governance, as it pertains to Corporate Tools and Analyst workflow
- Experience managing teams and threads with complex multi-regional systems with large datasets
- Experience supporting analyst workflows, mission visibility, or contextual data tracking capabilities
- Familiarity with content triage, transcription workflows, language analysis, or sourcing-related mission areas
- Experience with requirements management, traceability, interface definition, and lifecycle planning
- Experience developing concepts of operation, workflow documentation, and customer-facing systems engineering products
- Strong understanding of systems engineering processes and mission-focused capability development
- Ability to communicate effectively with both technical teams and operational users
- Experience coordinating and integrating AI Technologies within the development workflow
- Experience as Agency Analyst
- Experience with Enterprise Data Labels and Data Formats
This position is open for direct hires only. We will not consider candidates from third party staffing/recruiting firms.
- Annual Salary: $130,000 - $270,000 (Depends on the Years of Experience)
- Up to 20% 401k contribution (No Matching Required and Vested from Day 1)
- Above Market Hourly Rates
- $3,600 HSA Contribution
- 6 Weeks Paid Time Off
- Company Paid Employee Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance/Life Insurance/Short-Term & Long-Term Disability/AD&D
Skills Required
- Top Secret/SCI security clearance with favorable Polygraph; U.S. citizen
- 20 years experience as a Systems Engineer in similar programs/contracts
- Demonstrated experience planning and leading systems engineering efforts
- Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or related (or +5 years SE experience)
- Experience gathering, analyzing, and documenting user and system requirements
- Experience developing systems engineering artifacts (requirements specifications, interface control documents, systems engineering plans)
- Experience working directly with customers, users, and stakeholders to understand operational workflows
- Ability to translate complex operational challenges into structured requirements for technical teams
- Experience supporting workflow analysis, process improvement, or capability planning
- Strong technical writing, communication, and documentation skills
- Ability to coordinate across multidisciplinary teams and manage multiple priorities
- Experience with agency dataflow, compliance, policy, and data-governance related to analyst workflows
- Experience managing teams and threads across complex multi-regional systems with large datasets
- Experience supporting analyst workflows, mission visibility, or contextual data tracking
- Familiarity with content triage, transcription workflows, language analysis, or sourcing-related mission areas
- Experience with requirements management, traceability, interface definition, and lifecycle planning
- Experience developing concepts of operation, workflow documentation, and customer-facing SE products
- Experience coordinating and integrating AI technologies within development workflows
- Experience as an agency analyst
- Experience with Enterprise Data Labels and Data Formats
What We Do
Build something to be proud of. Captivation is focused on engineering digital solutions for mission makers. We deliver software engineering expertise across a broad spectrum of disciplines, collaborating to solve problems with the agility and efficiency of a small business. Captivation has built a reputation on providing customers exactly what is needed in a timely manner. Our team of engineers take pride in what they develop and constantly innovate to provide the best solution. Captivation is a small, developer-oriented company that embraces the progressive attitude you would expect at a tech startup. We value transparency in the employer-employee relationship, and aim to empower our team through a flattened company structure. We actively pursue the most interesting work the Intelligence Community has to offer. Our team works with leading software technologies to create awesome solutions for happy clients.
