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Job Name: Mid SETA Systems Engineer
Location: Reston, VA
Remote Work: No
Required Clearance: TS/SCI with CI Polygraph 
Position Type: Immediately Available 

Key Responsibilities:

• Support threatinformed mission engineering activities, including endtoend mission thread analysis, resiliency assessments, and deployment analysis.
• Develop and execute modeling and simulation (M&S) cases using tools such as STK, AFSIM, or custom Python/MATLAB models to characterize system performance, coverage, and timelines.
• Translate intelligence on foreign space and counterspace systems into technical requirements, measures of performance/effectiveness (MOP/MOE), and risk considerations for architectures and programs.
• Coordinate with stakeholders across customer mission centers, Service components, USSF/SSC, the IC, and Combatant Commands to ensure analytic consistency and support decision processes.
• Contribute to test and evaluation planning (developmental and operational), including modeling for test design, data sufficiency, and evaluation criteria.
• Produce clear, technically grounded assessments, reports, and briefings on space threat systems and their implications for mission assurance and resilience.
• Provide SETA support across the acquisition lifecycle, including requirements analysis, architecture decomposition, integration, verification/validation, and configuration management.
• Apply analytic standards, review methodologies, and quality assurance practices to engineering and allsource analytic products.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience: 5-10 years in space, defense, or IC analysis or systems engineering, including exposure to space threat analysis or mission/architecture assessments within the IC/DoD environment.
• Modeling & Simulation: Demonstrated experience using space mission M&S tools (e.g., STK, AFSIM, or equivalent) to support analytic or engineering tasks.
• Architecture Knowledge: Working understanding of space and ground architectures, including interactions among mission, ground, and user segments.
• Education: Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related technical field from an accredited institution.
• Clearance an active TS/SCI security clearance with Poly.

• Advanced Degree: M.S. in Engineering, Physics, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research, or a related discipline.
• Advanced Methods/Tools: Experience with MBSE (SysML/UML), digital engineering environments, or advanced modeling approaches (e.g., Python/MATLAB toolchains, Monte Carlo methods).
• Mission/Enterprise Awareness: Familiarity with Intelligence Community and Combatant Command organizations (e.g., NRO, NSA, NGA, USSPACECOM), and understanding of how space and counterspace intelligence informs operational planning and joint mission execution.

COMPENSATION 
CAS offers a generous benefits package for full time employees, including: 4 weeks PTO accrual for new employees with increases at milestone anniversaries, 11 paid holidays, employer-paid life and disability insurance, family health, dental and vision benefits, TRICARE Supplemental insurance, 401(k) with up to 6% employer match, generous tuition assistance for higher education or career related certifications, flexible work schedules, and opportunities for referral bonuses.
Base salaries at CAS are determined by various factors, including work location, an individual's education, knowledge, skills, experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected salary range for this position is $125,000 to $160,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of CAS's total compensation package.

Chopine Analytic Solutions is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, any other non-merit factor, or any other characteristic protected by law.