Journeyman Capability Deployment & Integration Engineer

Ready to make an impact! Peraton is seeking a driven Journeyman Capability Deployment & Integration Engineer to work on-site with our customer in Aurora, CO.

As an engineer on our team, you’ll work with Peraton on the U.S. Space Force Remote Sensing SE&I program to develop and rapidly deploy the next generation of resilient Missile Warning (MW), Tactical Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (TISR), and Environmental Monitoring (EM) capabilities to deter attacks and provide critical information to our warfighters to defeat our enemies in battle. Your customer will trust you to not only test, analyze, evaluate, validate, and verify these systems, but also identify areas requiring urgent mitigation up front and early to develop this system with advanced technology solutions. Grow your skills by merging innovative engineering methodologies and cross-disciplinary coordination to create tomorrow’s solutions. Join our team and create the future of Remote Sensing in the Space Force. 

**Due to the nature of work performed within this facility, U.S. citizenship is required**

The Journeyman Capability Deployment & Integration Engineer will be responsible for the following but not limited to:

• Synthesizes customer contractual needs, requirements, and technical, schedule and cost constraints into solutions for integrating, testing, evaluating, and transitioning systems into operations to deliver enterprise capabilities
• Plans and arranges the labor, schedules, and resources required for integrating, testing, evaluating and transitioning systems
• Establishes standards, practices, and procedures for integrating, testing, evaluating and transitioning systems and enterprise capabilities, and coordinates with stakeholders. Evaluates enterprise capabilities, architectures, system design concepts, requirements, risks and opportunities, and processes for integration, test, evaluation and transition impacts
• Designs, develops, and implements test and evaluation strategies, plans and methods to assure reliability of systems in conjunction with system specifications and defined enterprise capabilities, and integrates system and enterprise elements together so they work as a whole
• Reviews, evaluates, and derives requirements for testability. Ensures systems and enterprise capabilities comply with requirements and standards through formal verification methods
• Generates system requirement and enterprise capability verification approaches and customer acceptance criteria. Participates in reviews of systems and elements under development to ensure traceability of requirements compliance through verification and validation
• Develops and directs preparation for and execution of comprehensive test & evaluation plans, procedures and schedules which verify and validate enterprise capabilities, system requirements, performance, and operability.
• Coordinates system integration, test, evaluation, and transition activities with other organizations
• Conducts readiness for system integration, test, evaluation, and transition activities. Compiles data and defines changes required in testing configurations, testing procedures, testing processes, or new testing requirements.
• Implements testing processes and ensures all test activities follow those processes. Produces reports on each test activity and tracks test metrics
• Performs analysis and evaluations of systems under test
• Assesses performance using evaluation criteria and technical performance measures
• Performs analysis of test results and prepares comprehensive system evaluation reports and risk assessments.
• Evaluates discrepancy reports and performs integration regression testing to verify/validate incorporated fixes affecting systems and enterprise capabilities
• Provides direct, interfacing support to the customer for system integration, test, evaluation, and transition activities
• Monitors for continual process improvement and lessons learned, and reports to management periodically

Required qualifications:

• Must have a n active/current SECRET security clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret / SCI clearance
• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering, mathematics, computer science, or equivalent technical discipline and five (5) – seven (7) years of relevant experience; Master's degree and three (3) – five (5) years of relevant experience; PhD and zero experience – two (2) years of experience; High-school Diploma/GED and nine (9) years of relevant experience in lieu of a completed degree

• Three (3+) years of system engineering experience supporting space-related (space, ground, software, hardware system) Major Defense Acquisition Programs
• Experience performing system integration leading the overall role of relevant System Engineering for DoD, other Government Agency, or commercial programs or projects
• Experience with supporting overall engineering integration of Systems Engineering and Integration efforts for the DoD, government agencies, or commercial programs
• Experience with Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word
• Knowledge of service level concepts of operation and deployment of system capability
• Knowledge of systems engineering standards, including IEEE 15288.1 and IEEE 15288.2
• Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills
• Ability to communicate and establish collaborative relationships with government clients, Federally Funded Research and Developmental Centers (FFRDC), and associate contractor teammates to achieve program goals

Desired qualifications:

• A current TS/SCI security clearance
• Master’s degree in an engineering, mathematics, physics, or equivalent technical discipline and five (5) – seven (7) years of relevant experience
• Experience with performing systems engineering, integration, and test on space-based remote sensing systems
• Knowledge of DoD 5000.01/02
• INCOSE Systems Engineering Professional certifications (ASEP, CSEP, or ESEP)
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Salary Range Estimates:

The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Peraton's total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards. In addition, Peraton provides a variety of benefits to employees.

Benefits:

At Peraton, our benefits are designed to help keep you at your best beyond the work you do with us daily. We’re fully committed to the growth of our employees. From fully comprehensive medical plans to tuition reimbursement, tuition assistance, and fertility treatment, we are there to support you all the way. 

Peraton drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted and highly differentiated national security solutions and technologies that keep people safe and secure. Peraton serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies across the intelligence, space, cyber, defense, civilian, health, and state and local markets. Every day, our employees do the can’t be done, solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers.