SETA Systems Engineer (Mid)

Location: On-site in Chantilly, VA or Reston, VA; minimal travel; standard 40-hour workweek

Salary: $156,200–$187,000 per year. Additional compensation may include bonuses, incentives, sign-on bonuses, and relocation benefits.

Company

Engineering, logistics, operations, science, program management, mission IT, and cybersecurity solutions supporting defense and national security programs.

What you will do

• Support threat-informed mission engineering, end-to-end mission thread analysis, resiliency assessments, and deployment analysis.
• Develop and execute modeling and simulation cases with STK, AFSIM, Python, MATLAB, or equivalent tools.
• Translate foreign space and counterspace intelligence into technical requirements, MOPs, MOEs, and risk considerations.
• Coordinate analysis with customer mission centers, service components, USSF/SSC, the Intelligence Community, and Combatant Commands.
• Contribute to developmental and operational test and evaluation planning, including test design and evaluation criteria.
• Produce technical assessments, reports, briefings, and SETA support across requirements, architecture, integration, verification, validation, and configuration management.

Requirements

• 5–10 years of experience in space, defense, or Intelligence Community analysis or systems engineering.
• Experience with space mission modeling and simulation tools such as STK, AFSIM, or equivalent.
• Working knowledge of space and ground architectures and their mission, ground, and user segment interactions.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, physics, mathematics, computer science, or a related technical field.
• Active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph required.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in engineering, physics, applied mathematics, operations research, or a related discipline.
• Experience with MBSE, SysML/UML, digital engineering environments, Python/MATLAB toolchains, or Monte Carlo methods.
• Familiarity with NRO, NSA, NGA, USSPACECOM, and other Intelligence Community or Combatant Command organizations.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative and intellectually stimulating engineering environment.
• Work focused on national security, space defense, mission assurance, and operational readiness.
• Potential bonuses, commissions, sign-on bonuses, relocation benefits, and short- or long-term incentives depending on role and policy.
• People-first culture centered on belonging, connection, growth, and Zero Harm principles.