Systems Engineer 1

Your Impact: 

Are you interested in using your skills to help shape the Cyber, Security, & Intel space?  If so, look no further. Amentum is seeking a Systems Engineer to join our team of passionate individuals in Annapolis Junction, MD . In this role you will support challenging, mission-critical projects that make a direct impact on the Nation’s security and intelligence mission.

Responsibilities:

This position will support the Inference Processing team.

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• Analyzes user’s requirements, concept of operations documents, and high-level system architectures to develop system requirements specifications.
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• Analyzes system requirements and leads design and development activities. Guides users in formulating requirements, advises alternative approaches, and conducts feasibility studies.
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• Provides technical leadership for the integration of requirements, design, and technology. Incorporates new plans, designs and systems into ongoing operations.
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• Develops technical documentation.
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• Develops system Architecture and system design documentation.
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• Guides system development and implementation planning through assessment or preparation of system engineering management plans and system integration and test plans.
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• Interacts with the Government regarding Systems Engineering technical considerations and for associated problems, issues or conflicts.
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• Ultimate responsibility for the technical integrity of work performed and deliverables associated with the Systems Engineering area of responsibility.
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• Communicates with other program personnel, government overseers, and senior executives.
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• Contribute to the development of sections of systems engineering documentation such as System Engineering Plans, Initial Capabilities Documents, Requirements specifications, and Interface Control Documents 
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• Manage system requirements and derived requirements to ensure the delivery of production systems that are compatible with the defined system architecture(s) – Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF), Service-oriented Architecture (SOA), etc 
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• Assist with the development of system requirements, functional requirements, and allocation of the same to individual hardware, software, facility, and personnel components 
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• Coordinate the resolution of action items from Configuration Control Board (CCB) meetings, design reviews, program reviews, and test reviews that require cross-discipline coordination 
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• Participate in an Integrated Product Team to design new capabilities based upon evaluation of all necessary development and operational considerations 
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• Participate in the development of system engineering documentation, such as System Engineering Plans, Initial Capabilities Documents, Requirements Specifications, and Interface Control Documents 
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• Participate in interface definition, design, and changes to the configuration between affected groups and individuals throughout the life cycle 
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• Allocate real-time process budgets and error budgets to systems and subsystem components 
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• Derive from the system requirements an understanding of stakeholder needs, functions that may be logically inferred and implied as essential to system effectiveness 
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• Derive lower-level requirements from higher-level allocated requirements that describe in detail the functions that a system component must fulfill, and ensure these requirements are complete, correct, unique, unambiguous, realizable, and verifiable 
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• Generate alternative system concepts, physical architectures, and design solutions 
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• Participate in establishing and gaining approval of the definition of a system or component under development (requirements, designs, interfaces, test procedures, etc.) that provides a common reference point for hardware and software developers 
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• Define the methods, processes, and evaluation criteria by which the systems, subsystems and work products are verified against their requirements in a written plan 
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• Develop system design solution that satisfies the system requirements and fulfills the functional analysis 
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• Develop derived requirements for Information Assurance Services (Confidentiality, Integrity, Non-repudiation, and Availability); Basic Information Assurance Mechanisms (e.g., Identification, Authentication, Access Control, Accountability); and Security Mechanism Technology (Passwords, cryptography, discretionary access control, mandatory access control, hashing, key management, etc.) 
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• Review and provide input to program and contract work breakdown structure (WBS), work packages and the integrated master plan (IMP)
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