Engineer – Systems Engineering & Technical Assistance (SETA), Development, & Sustainment (2026-0056)

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Create reports and briefings that easily and succinctly describe complex program information to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Compose and maintain correspondence documentation such as operating procedures and internal memorandums and review deliverables from Sponsor development contracts.
• Provide Tier 1 technical support for the Sponsor’s program. Participate in lab or “on-the-street" characterization testing of a system.
• Collect, validate, and analyze customer requirements; develop and maintain traceability between user and component-level system requirements.
• Participate as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in program and organizational engineering review boards and other technical forums to foster cooperation across programs within the Agency, DoD, and the IC, and facilitate effective integration of technical solutions.
• Provide technical breadth on embedded processing, wireless and mobile communications across all Sponsor-enabled mission areas; including knowledge of current and emerging commercial markets, devices at the user edge of the network, and fixed infrastructure of the mobile network.
• Provide frequency spectrum management support to monitor and conduct analysis of Federal Communications Commission (FCC), International Telecommunication Union (ITU), and National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA} activity regarding frequency assignments, allocation, auction, and commercial co-use on Agency operations.
• Develop design concepts that are consistent with Agency architectural guidance and industry best practices to address new user/system requirements, changes in the technical environment, or performance enhancements.
• Assist with the design and installation of technical environments in customer approved settings for the test and evaluation of platform components, to include appropriate documentation.
• Provide support to integrated sensor field demonstrations, as requested.
• Prepare and manage integration activities associated with infrastructure including hardware at all various facilities, networks, and service providers, R&D and recapitalization activities, space planning, and installation coordination.
• Communicate technical information into terms that are applicable and understandable to intelligence officers at multiple knowledge levels. 
• Advise on new techniques and estimated costs associated with new or revised programs and utilities, taking into consideration personnel, hardware/software, logistics and other requirements in trade-off analyses.
• Provide analysis of information processing platform capabilities and collection systems for performance, availability, capacity, and obsolescence.
• Maintain a strategic roadmap for technical thrust research initiatives. Assist with all integration issues, project activities and milestones.
• Coordinate with other program offices, including developers, engineers, testers, configuration management and other system integrators as necessary.
• Provide project cost estimates and schedule projections associated with changing requirements to the Sponsor leadership. This includes the monitoring of schedules, tasks, scope and status of requirements. Provide technical expertise to monthly reviews and TEMs and provide recommendations on future course of actions.
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