Systems Engineer Sr - E3

Standard Job Description

This position is for a Mission Assurance Systems Engineer Sr supporting AMMM and Skunk Works® programs. The candidate must be a proven problem‑solver who can multi‑task in a complex interrelated environment.

• Support the development and implementation of hardware and software Anti-Tamper techniques and countermeasures to protect assets and enhance operational integrity and reliability.
• Understand full life cycle Systems Engineering development experience in Anti-Tamper and/or Cybersecurity, to include architecture design, trade studies, requirements formulation, detailed design, unit testing, system testing, and validation and verification practices
• Support internal and external design reviews and maintain knowledge of current and developing technologies and design and analysis methodologies.

• Ensure development activities, accomplishments, and issues are communicated to the Mission Assurance Senior Manager and Director.

Basic Qualifications

• B.S. in an engineering or technical degree
• Minimum two years of cybersecurity/anti-tamper requirements development, security and cyber threat analysis, security systems engineering, cyber systems architecture development and cybersecurity policy development
• Familiarity with requirements development and derivation or validation and verification
• U.S. Citizenship and active secret DoD clearance is required with the ability to obtain higher Special Access Program (SAP) clearance

Desired Skills

• Advanced degree in Engineering, Software or Science
• Experience with Anti-tamper, Reverse Engineering, Hardware Design, Embedded Software or Cryptography
• Technical problem solving, to include decomposition, root cause analysis, solution development, implementation and monitoring
• Experience with proposals and creating basis of estimates (BOEs)
• Experience contributing to and/or making technical presentations to a lead engineer
• Identify and mitigate vulnerabilities and perform integration testing of mitigation/resolution

• Experience with Hardware (Firmware) Assurance, Attack Surface Analysis and Reporting, Software/Firmware Encryption, and Secure Key Handling