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Senior Engineer for Joint Information Advantage

Modern Technology Solutions, Inc.
Alexandria, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 1 Apr 2025

About the role

Overview

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Modern Technology Solutions, Inc. (MTSI) is seeking a Senior Engineer for Joint Information Advantage in support of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research & Engineering, OUSD(R&E).  You will be responsible to provide technical expertise for compartmented warfighting capability development, integration, and transition of new technologies that close time-critical gaps in high-priority, and multi-component warfighting missions.  This position requires an active TS/SCI clearance and will be located in the Alexandria, VA area.

 

Why is MTSI known as a Great Place to Work?

  • Interesting Work:  Our co-workers support some of the most important and critical programs to our national defense and security.  
  • Values: Our first core value is that employees come first.  We challenge our co-workers to provide the highest level of support and service, and reward them with some of the best benefits in the industry. 
  • 100% Employee Ownership: we have a stake in each other's success, and the success of our customers.  It's also nice to know what's going on across the company; we have company wide town-hall meetings three times a year.  
  • Great Benefits - Most Full-Time Staff Are Eligible for: 
    • Starting PTO accrual of 20 days PTO/year + 10 holidays/year
    • Flexible schedules
    • 6% 401k match with immediate vesting
    • Semi-annual bonus eligibility (July and December)
    • Company funded Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) - a separate qualified retirement account
    • Up to $10,000 in annual tuition reimbursement
    • Other company funded benefits, like life and disability insurance
    • Optional zero deductible Blue Cross/Blue Shield health insurance plan
  • Track Record of Success:  We have grown every year since our founding in 1993

Modern Technology Solutions, Inc. (MTSI) is a 100% employee-owned engineering services and solutions company that provides high-demand technical expertise in Digital Transformation, Modeling and Simulation, Rapid Capability Development, Test and Evaluation, Artificial Intelligence, Autonomy, Cybersecurity and Mission Assurance.

 

MTSI delivers capabilities to solve problems of global importance. Founded in 1993, MTSI today has employees at over 20 offices and field sites worldwide.

 

For more information about MTSI, please visit www.mtsi-va.com.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Engineer, you will be responsible for conceiving, developing, managing, and integrating compartmented capability development programs to enhance the operability, lethality, and cyber security of current and future U.S. warfighting weapon systems.

 

Essential attributes include a developed critical thinking ability and excellent oral and written communication skills, along with experience in working with Joint Staff, military components, Defense, Intelligence Agencies, and other OSD organizations.  

 

This position requires an active TS/SCI clearance and will be located in the Alexandria, VA area, (Work locations include the Suffolk Building, the Mark Center, and in Crystal City)

 

Your essential job functions will include but will not be limited to:

  • Provide subject-matter expertise in warfighting technologies and capabilities for Joint Information Advantage, Battlespace Awareness, and Command and Control.
  • Deliver technical assessments and analysis to provide recommended innovative approaches, technologies, and capabilities to address critical joint warfighting capability gaps.
  • Provide technical analysis and advice to inform capability requirements development and validation through the JCIDS process.
  • Provide technical expertise to inform mission engineering studies, prototype development, experimentation, and global integrated wargaming.
  • Collaborate with Service, Joint Staff, and OSD stakeholders to support the transition of technologies from prototypes and joint experimentation activities to Service programs of record.
  • Prepare and deliver reports and briefings to DoD leadership.

Qualifications

  • Minimum 15 years' of relevant work experience.
  • Solid working knowledge of current and future airborne and space ISR systems to include the classified, proliferated low earth orbit (PLEO) constellations.
  • Technical expertise in command, control, communications, computers, cyber, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and targeting (C5ISRT) in one or more of the following areas:
    • Space and satellite ground station operations
    • Battle Management Command, Control and Communications (BMC3);
    • Command and Control, B

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