CNO Systems Engineer - Senior Level

CNO Systems Engineer

Praxis is hiring Systems Engineers specializing in the design and delivery of innovative CNO solutions to address some of the Nation’s most important challenges.  The ideal candidate can interpret customer and stakeholder needs through collaboration and problem statements, develop candidate CONOPS, author architecture views and diagrams, develop requirements, identify dependencies, constraints, & assumptions, and author acceptance criteria and test plans, and coordinate and conduct various informal and formal test events. Strong communication (oral and written), collaboration, & comfort leading small teams in agile/iterative delivery methodologies will enable success.

What you will be doing:

As a CNO Systems Engineer you will:

• Create and own the baseline of System Engineering artifacts (formal and informal) and ensure their accuracy, currency, and completeness
• Author and maintain end-to-end CONOPS which are realistic, achievable, and mapped to explicit software development activities and products, both internal and external
• Collaborate with team members, co-contractors/vendors, and customer stakeholders

What you need:

• Bachelor’s degree in a Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics, Mathematics or related technical discipline from an accredited college or university
• A minimum of ten (10) years of experience in the respective domain
• Knowledge of Computer Security Principles, Operation System Internals, software development, and Software baseline configuration management
• Ability to accurately document, analyze, prioritize and recommend candidate use cases based on expertise in the “realm of possible” of proposed CNO use cases
• Familiarity with embedded software systems, and the enablers/constraints these systems provide vice traditional well-resourced IT systems
• Ability to decompose design characteristics and schedule considerations into well scoped, finite, achievable software development tasks in a commercial tool (such as Jira)
• Skilled technical writer capable of creating and/or contributing to contractual required documents
• Expertise in a commercial Systems Architecture diagraming tool (such as Cameo Enterprise Architect)

Clearance: Active TS/SCI is required to be considered for this role

Who are we?
Praxis Engineering* was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Annapolis Junction MD - with growing offices in Chantilly VA and Aberdeen MD.

Praxis Engineering is a consulting, product, and solutions firm dedicated to the practical application of software and system engineering technologies to solve complex problems. 

With over 300 employees supporting more than 50 contracts, Praxis brings together world class engineers with proven engineering best practices, domain expertise, commercial technologies and proven agile management approaches to create high value solutions aimed at helping our customers meet their most critical business and mission objectives.  

*Praxis Engineering is a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics IT.

Why Praxis? 
We are focused on continual learning and evolution. We don’t do things because “that’s the way we’ve always done things”; we listen to our employees and adapt to the changing marketplace.   We look at the big picture and encourage our engineers to get training and certifications in emerging technologies that will help shape our customer’s mission.  We've been profitable year after year.  We're always on the lookout for great engineers to join the team and we recognize that our employees are the heart and soul of what we do.   We focus on recruiting talented people, treating them right, and then allowing them to do what they do best.