Systems Engineering, Senior Associate

Peraton is seeking a Systems Engineer to provide mission focused Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) support to government clients. 

Position Responsibilities:

• Work closely with customer to develop and implement system missions from initial concepts to final operations, ensuring alignment with mission requirements, objectives, budgets and timelines.
• Collaborate with customer organization and mission partners to generate product specifications and requirements and provide technical oversight during the acquisition phase.
• Work with product developers (generally prime contractors) to ensure that products/systems are developed to customers’ specifications within budget and schedule. Provide resolution of technical aspects between customer and developers.
• Track system risk, issues, and opportunities.
• Coordinate with broader customer and SETA team to review developer deliverables (CDRLs, milestones review packages, V&V test artifacts, etc…), providing feedback and soliciting corrections/changes as needed
• Ensure system developers are meeting contractual obligations and following engineering best practices.
• Serve as primary point of contact for customer team inquiries related to the mission being developed

2+ years with BS/BA; 6 years with no degree

TS/SCI W POLY 

• Space systems engineering experience (requirements development and management, organization and holding of design gate/milestone reviews, overseeing developer during system integration and test, risk identification, tracking, and mitigation)
• Development contract oversight experience, with emphasis on technical performance
• Experience with space system integration and test, or payload integration and test desired.

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that 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, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.