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Job overview
Expert-level Systems Engineers assist Government teams with systems engineering across the National and Allied Systems of Geospatial-intelligence and Federal Agencies. The role supports requirements and solutions engineering, integration, analysis, and technical planning to ensure timely and accurate GEOINT. Engineers also advise on design changes, lead engineering assessments, integrate major systems acquisitions, and coordinate the work of contractor Systems Engineers at senior, mid, and junior levels.
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Full job description
Overall Assignment Description:
Expert-level Systems Engineers assist in leading engineering teams in taking a multi-discipline approach to 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 to ensure timely and accurate GEOINT.
Duties may include:
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Assists the Government in directing 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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Assists with 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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Advises the Government on proposed changes to the solutions designs based on 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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Assists the Government in performing systems integration activities.
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Assist in leading 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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Provides expert advice to the Government in the areas of relating vision, strategy, plans, needs, requirements, and process and capability developments.
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Operates at the level of integrating multiple Major Systems Acquisitions across organizational, agency, department, and governmental/national boundaries.
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Oversees and coordinates the work of Senior-, Mid-, and Junior-level contractor Systems Engineers.
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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18+ 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 strong 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.
Desired:
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Master’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.
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Working knowledge of Model-Based Systems Engineering, processes, tools and languages.
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Software Development Framework certification.
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INCOSE Expert Systems engineering Professional (ESEP) certification.
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Licensure as a professional engineer.
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Membership or leadership participation in any of the following professional organizations:
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ACSM
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ASCE
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ASPRS
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OGC
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SAREM
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USGIF
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Extensive work experience in the field of geospatial intelligence.
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Experience engineering solutions using Cloud-based technologies.
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Experience engineering solutions using structured and unstructured Big Data.
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Experience engineering solutions using Automation, Augmentation and Artificial Intelligence technologies.
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Demonstrated expertise in photogrammetry, remote sensing, image science, information sciences, geographic information systems, geomatics, or related fields.
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 10,536 open Systems Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Virginia median$121–188K/yr761 salary ranges
- US median$56–71/hr325 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 932 open Systems Engineer jobs in Virginia and 10,536 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Virginia
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 18 years of experience — more than three in four Systems Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 8,741 postings).
- Education
- 4,680 of the 10,536 open Systems Engineer jobs (44%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 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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