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Systems Engineer, Jr.

Chantilly, Virginia💼 Full-time🗓 2026-05-06 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design, develop, test, and deliver products supporting the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) Ground Enterprise Directorate's intelligence-gathering missions and command-and-control operations.

Role type

Junior Systems Engineer (Space Defense)

Builds

Ground processing systems, mission management tools, and command-and-control solutions for space defense.

Domain

National Security / Space Systems Engineering

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis

Required skills

Systems engineering lifecycle management, requirements development, trade studies, risk management, Agile methodologies, secure solution integration, space systems standards compliance

Preferred skills

Model-Based Systems Engineering, NRO System Engineering process, Interface Control Documents (ICDs), System Requirements Documents (SRD), Preliminary Design Reviews (PDR), IC overhead collection systems

Technologies

Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, secure solution frameworks

Responsibilities

Support incidents and investigations for space systems ground processing and mission management; Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams on hardware, software, and system integration; Assist in developing system requirements aligned with mission objectives; Participate in trade studies for system performance and architecture; Gather information to create technical documents for command-and-control operations; Provide support throughout the systems engineering life cycle managing risks; Track project activities for software/hardware development and deployment.

Seniority

Junior, up to 5 years experience

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