Expert Level Systems Integration Engineer - Spectral Exploitation

We are seeking an experienced Expert Integration Engineer with deep expertise in the integration and deployment of spectral exploitation tools supporting advanced imagery and spectral analysis missions. This role is critical to establishing and maintaining a spectral exploitation environment used by Image Scientists to process, analyze, and exploit both literal and non-literal data.

The selected candidate will lead engineering and deployment efforts for a spectral exploitation environment and ensure seamless integration across the broader NSG TCPED Enterprise. This position requires close collaboration with systems engineers, image scientists, and software developers to deliver interoperable, end-to-end mission solutions while maintaining the integrity of a complex system-of-systems enterprise.

Key Responsibilities

Systems Integration & Engineering

• Lead the establishment of an integrated PED environment for spectral exploitation supporting advanced tradecraft capabilities for Image Scientists.
• Perform systems integration activities across cloud, on-premise, and hybrid environments.
• Ensure interoperability between applications, systems, and enterprise architectures to support mission objectives.
• Integrate spectral data into spectral exploitation tools and workflows.

Technical Strategy & Mission Support

• Provide expert technical guidance to the Government on vision, strategy, planning, requirements, and capability development.
• Support the translation of mission and customer needs into system and capability requirements.
• Assist with strategic technical planning, interface design, performance engineering, and risk management activities.
• Support project management initiatives and enterprise-level integration efforts.

Requirements & Process Analysis

• Assist with planning and analysis of user requirements, architecture traceability, operational procedures, and workflow improvements.
• Identify opportunities to automate or optimize existing processes and scheduling limitations.
• Support systems engineering lifecycle activities and ensure alignment with enterprise objectives.

Location: This position is fully onsite in Springfield, VA

Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees working on this critical National Security program, which include heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for you and your dependents, 25 days of PTO accrued annually up to a generous PTO cap and eligible to participate in an attractive bonus plan.

Required Qualifications

• 18+ years' of relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering, Computer Science, Imagery Analysis, or a related STEM field.
  • Additional experience may be substituted for education:
    • 4 additional years of experience in lieu of a degree
    • 2 additional years of experience with a non-STEM degree
• Minimum of 5 years of experience integrating sensor programs into large, complex System of Systems or Service-Oriented Architecture environments across cloud, on-premise, or hybrid infrastructures.
• Minimum of 5 years of NGA program/project experience.
• Experience integrating spectral data into spectral exploitation tools.
• Experience integrating solutions using cloud-based technologies.
• Strong understanding of the systems engineering lifecycle.
• Demonstrated knowledge of current NSG/ASG and NRO enterprises.
• Previous IC or DoD program/project experience.
• Active TS/SCI clearance adjudication or the ability to obtain SCI eligibility and pass a polygraph.

Desired Qualifications

• Master’s degree or higher in Engineering, Computer Science, Imagery Analysis, or a related STEM field.
• INCOSE Expert Systems Engineering Professional (ESEP) certification.
• Experience integrating spectral exploitation tools within SAGE/CAP architecture.
• Experience integrating NGA/ATS advanced tradecraft tools, including:
  • Data Transformation Services
  • Full Spectrum Tool Kit
• Working knowledge of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) processes, tools, and languages.
• Demonstrated expertise in:
  • Photogrammetry
  • Remote sensing
  • Image science
  • Information sciences
  • Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
  • Geomatics or related disciplines
• Experience integrating Automation, Augmentation, and Artificial Intelligence technologies into enterprise solutions.

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.

$146,000 - $234,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual’s experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

EEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.