Systems Engineer Technical Analyst (SETA)

Location: On-site in Chantilly, VA or Reston, VA; U.S. citizenship and an active TS/SCI clearance with CI Poly are required.

Salary: $140,200–$167,000 per year, based on qualifications and experience.

Company

hirify.global delivers engineering, logistics, operations, science, program management, mission IT, and cybersecurity solutions for government and defense customers.

What you will do

• Support threat-informed mission engineering, including 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 to assess system performance, coverage, and timelines.
• Translate foreign space and counterspace intelligence into technical requirements, measures of performance and effectiveness, and architecture risk assessments.
• Coordinate analysis with customer mission centers, Service components, USSF/SSC, the Intelligence Community, and Combatant Commands.
• Support developmental and operational test and evaluation planning, including test design, data sufficiency, and evaluation criteria.
• Produce technical assessments, reports, briefings, and SETA deliverables 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 threat analysis or mission and architecture assessments in an IC or DoD environment.
• Demonstrated experience with space mission modeling and simulation tools such as STK or AFSIM.
• Working knowledge of space and ground architectures and their mission, ground, and user segments.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, physics, mathematics, computer science, or a related technical field.
• U.S. citizenship and an active TS/SCI security clearance with CI Poly are 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 Intelligence Community and Combatant Command organizations, including NRO, NSA, NGA, and USSPACECOM.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative and intellectually stimulating work environment.
• Projects focused on national security, space defense, and mission assurance.
• Standard 40-hour work week with minimal travel.
• Potential bonuses, commissions, sign-on bonuses, relocation benefits, and short- or long-term incentives depending on role and policy.
• People First and Zero Harm culture.