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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What We Do
NextGen is an award-winning IT solutions and services provider. NextGen is a fast-growing company that employs agile and mature processes in areas of innovation, research and development, program management, systems engineering, and technology commercialization. Current customers include the Department of Defense, Federal Government, and commercial companies.
NextGen utilizes a mixed model consisting of Services and Solution Development in support of customer goals. Our core areas of expertise include Software Development, Research and Development, Enterprise IT Systems Engineering, and Cyber Security & Data Management. NextGen obtained ISO 9001 certification and achieved CMMI-DEV and CMMI-SVC Level 3 appraisal. Recent and steady growth led to our recognition by INC 5000 as the 211th (2016), 440th (2017), 1096th (2018), 1703rd (2019), and 2437th (2020) fastest-growing company in the US and 19th fastest growing IT Services Company in the US. NextGen has offices near Aberdeen, MD; Ft. Meade, MD; Dayton, OH; O’Fallon, IL, and Morgantown, WV.
We understand the paradigm shift of doing more with less; developing, operating, and supporting complex systems and missions while keeping pace with changing technologies; and providing high-quality working solutions to analysts and warfighters supporting the Federal Government. We aggressively manage internal costs to ensure competitive salaries for top talent while ensuring cost-effective delivery to our customers. As the demand for quality increases, NextGen is well-positioned to tackle the most intricate challenges facing the defense and intelligence communities today.
