Expert Systems Engineer

Expert Systems Engineer

Location

US-VA-Springfield

ID

2025-7791

Category

Information Technology

Position Type

Full-Time

Remote

No

Clearance Level

TS/SCI CI Poly

Overview

Eager to join a team where your skills are valued, your growth is nurtured, and your impact is profound? Look no further than Markon, a premier consulting firm deeply dedicated to advancing our nation's most critical missions.

At Markon, we don't just offer jobs - we offer opportunities for personal and professional transformation. Empowering our employees to lead, innovate, and excel, we foster an environment where new ideas are not just welcomed but celebrated. As a perennial Washington Post Top Workplace, we prioritize the well-being and success of our team members, ensuring they can bring their best selves to work.

Headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, Markon has garnered national recognition for our unwavering dedication to excellence in serving the intelligence community, as well as federal civilian and defense agencies. Our growing reach extends across 17 states, 116 countries, and 5 continents, where our team of dynamic professionals collaborates to deliver unparalleled program and project management services.

Markon values people and the tremendous impact each individual can make - which is why we're consistently recognized as one of the best places to work in federal government consulting. Here, you can help solve the nation's most important challenges, surrounded by colleagues who help you grow, advance, and succeed. We are deeply dedicated to what matters - bringing out the best in each other to advance our clients' missions.

Join us and make a meaningful impact.

Markon is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status. This job posting will remain open until the position is filled.

Benefits Offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, EAP, Training and Tuition Assistance, Paid Time Off, and Holidays

Description

Markon is seeking an Expert level Systems Engineer to support our client from Springfield, VA. This role applies to a multi-disciplinary approach to the development, integration, and sustainment of space-based capabilities within Controlled Access Programs (CAPs) and Special Access Programs (SAPs) across the National System for Geospatial Intelligence (NSG) and the Department of Defense/Intelligence Community (DoD/IC).

Responsibilities

The Expert Systems Engineer will engage in activities including (but not limited to):

• Requirements engineering.
• Solutions development.
• Systems reliability and resiliency.
• Services deployment.
• Research and development (R&D).
• Systems integration.
• Test and evaluation (T&E).
• Maintainability analysis.

Qualifications

Required:

• Active TS/SCI clearance adjudication and ability to pass a CI polygraph.
• Master's in Engineering and 18 years of experience, or PhD in Engineering and 10 years of experience in related technical or scientific. fields such as engineering, physics, mathematics.
• Experience with Integrated Protection Strategy (IPS) or integrating SSA applications.
• Experience with space related activities such as SOSI, BMC3, or orbital analysis.
• Experience dealing with data at multiple classification levels and processing data at multiple classification levels.
• Deep understanding of secure architectures and the ability to operate effectively within highly classified environments is essential.
• Demonstrated experience with space enterprise information needs.
• Experience with space environments such as space to ground or threat assessments of space assets.
• Experience with physics models to include analyzing space weather effects, and threat/damage analysis of space based objects.
• Experience with space object measurement.
• Experience with NRO/SAO or AF SPO.
• Understanding of MBSE processes, tools, and languages.

Salary Range

USD $160,000.00 - USD $200,000.00 /Yr.

The Markon pay range for this position is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

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