Junior Systems Engineer Jobs

SRC, Inc. is seeking a junior systems engineer. This position is part of a team of SETA supporting in the mission operations (MO) group. The position will have various SE assignments related to the integration of additional capabilities into the operational baseline and other activities in support of the customer MO office. In particular this position has responsibilities assisting the government in their management of a O&M contractor performing 24x7 operations for a critical intelligence mission. This includes supporting daily stand-up meetings, supporting problem report investigations or working on anomaly teams to drive out root cause for mission outages, understanding O&M schedules for maintenance and other critical operations.
SRC, Inc., a not-for-profit research and development company, combines information, science, technology and ingenuity across our family of companies to deliver innovative, advanced defense solutions and products that are redefining possible®. Since 1957, our commitment to the customer and the best solution – not the bottom line – has remained a core value that guides our efforts. This passion for quality carries through to the technologies we invent and manufacture, the laboratories and facilities we build, the people we hire, and the communities we support.
At SRC, we provide you the freedom and the resources to solve “impossible” problems in a collaborative work environment that integrates research, development and manufacturing. We strive to proactively identify and eliminate barriers that prevent our employees’ full participation and are committed to ensuring an inclusive and equitable workplace for all our employees. When you join our team, you’ll be a part of something truly meaningful. You’ll join more than 1,300 engineers, scientists and professionals — with 20 percent of those employees having served in the military — helping to keep America and its allies safe and strong.
In return, you’ll enjoy an inclusive work environment, receive a competitive salary, and experience a comprehensive benefits package that includes four or more weeks of paid time off to start, 10 percent of an employee’s compensation contributed toward retirement, and 100 percent tuition support.

Responsibilities

• Designs interfaces and brings system elements together, so they work as a whole.
• Generates quantifiable requirements based on customer description, system planning and design, and acquisition logistics.
• Reviews test plans/procedures and ensures they meet the objectives of the contractual requirements and participates in the testing process to validate requirements.
• Using a holistic approach, designs, develops, evaluates and modifies end-to-end systems and systems-oriented products through their entire life cycle.
• 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.
• Participates in system conceptual design and documentation of the design concepts.
• Customer liaison and support for business development activities and to understand and shape requirements.
• Generates system level requirements verification procedures and customer acceptance test procedures.
• Translates high level product development strategies into system requirement specifications and works with multi-discipline engineering teams to develop lower-level detailed requirements.
• Assesses performance using evaluation criteria and technical performance measures.
• 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 development of standards, practices, and procedures as related to the overall product development.
• Ensures requirements comply with client requirements and government standards through formal verification methods.

Required Skills/Qualifications/Education:

• Good time management skills; ability to support multiple projects; ability to multi-task
• Must be a team player and possess a strong ability to work collaboratively with a diverse team as well as work independently with moderate supervision
• Must be proactive and forward leaning.
• Excellent communication skills
• BS in Engineering, Computer Science (or equivalent) with #+ yrs of relevant experience or a Master's with 0+ yrs of experience. Four years of additional relevant (space/satellite communications systems acquisitions) experience can be substituted.
• TS/SCI with CI Polygraph security clearance required

Desired Skills/Qualifications/Education:

• Experience with Digital Signal Processing and processing segment hardware/software systems and waveform development
• Experience with Commercial/Government acquisition or operations of satellite/ground segment hardware/software or satellite based special communications field set hardware/software.
• Basic understanding of space-based RF communications methods, hardware/software
• Experience with RF based satellite communications.
• BS in Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering or Computer Science.