
Senior Level Systems Engineer
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Job overview
The Senior Level Systems Engineer guides engineering teams across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence, Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence, and federal agencies. The role supports requirements and solutions engineering, systems integration, analysis, and technical planning for complex systems and services. It also assists the Government in translating mission and customer needs into system capabilities and integrating systems across organizational and agency boundaries.
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Overall Assignment Description
The Senior Level Systems Engineer guide engineering teams in taking a multi-discipline approach torequirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence (ASG) and Federal Agencies to ensure timely and accurate GEOINT.
Duties may include:
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Guides Mid-level and Junior-level system engineers performing requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence (ASG ) and Federal Agencies.
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Guides the planning, analysis/traceability of user requirements, architectures traceability, procedures, and problems to automate or improve existing systems and review cloud service capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations.
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Guides Mid-level and Junior-level system engineers developing solutions designs based o n analysis of requirements and new technology .
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Assists the Government in the capture and translation of mission and customer requirements/needs into systems/capability requirements and solutions.
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Supports the analyses and allocation of requirements to systems architecture components and executing programs.
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Performs systems integration activities.
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Conducts Analysis of Alternatives ( AoAs ), Course of Actions ( CoAs ), Trade Studies, and Engineering Assessments.
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Assists the Government in strategic technical planning, project management, performance engineering, risk management and interface design.
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Operates at the level of integrating multiple systems, services, processes, and interfaces within a Major Systems Acquisitions across organizational and agency boundaries.
Skills and Experience:
Required:
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Bachelor’s degree or higher in Systems Engineering or in a related technical or scientific fields such as Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Operations Research, Engineering Management,Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program, or related equivalent additional experience of 4 years with no degree or 2 years with a non-STEM degree.
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12+ years of experience working in government or industry in relevant work areas including: DoD/IC Acquisition Process, Requirements Process, PPBES Process or systems engineering of large complex System of Systems or Service Oriented Architecture environments residing in cloud, on premise, or hybrid infrastructures.
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Experience with and understanding of systems engineering lifecycle.
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Demonstrated knowledge of the current NSG/ASG and NRO enterprises.
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Previous NGA and/or NSG/ASG program/project work experience
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Previous IC or DoD program/project work experience
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TS/SCI clearance adjudication or ability to obtain SCI and pass a polygraph
SHINE Systems is an Equal Employment/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, or any other protected class.
How this job compares
Set against the 11,187 open Systems Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 31, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Washington, D.C. median$140–194K/yr124 salary ranges
- US median$60–70/hr411 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 170 open Systems Engineer jobs in Washington, D.C. and 11,187 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 12 years of experience — more than three in four Systems Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 9,476 postings).
- Education
- 4,656 of the 11,187 open Systems Engineer jobs (42%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 31, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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