Hyperspectral Imaging Systems Engineer

Responsibilities

Position Overview:We are seeking an expert-level Systems Engineer to provide strategic and technical leadership across multi-disciplinary engineering teams. This role supports the National System for Geospatial-Intelligence (NSG), Allied System for Geospatial-Intelligence (ASG), and other federal partners, ensuring the delivery of timely, accurate, and reliable GEOINT capabilities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and advise on the full spectrum of systems engineering functions, including requirements analysis, solution design, scheduling, system reliability and resiliency, service development, integration, testing, evaluation, and maintainability.

• Support the Government in planning and analyzing user requirements and architectural traceability to identify opportunities for system automation and optimization.

• Evaluate and provide recommendations on cloud service capabilities, workflow improvements, and scheduling constraints.

• Offer strategic insights and recommendations on technology adoption and solution design changes based on evolving requirements and emerging technologies.

• Translate mission and user needs into actionable system and capability requirements.

• Contribute to system architecture development and the allocation of requirements to appropriate components and programs.

• Perform and support system integration efforts across various engineering domains.

• Lead and support Engineering Assessments, Analysis of Alternatives (AoAs), Course of Action (CoA) evaluations, and technical trade studies.

• Assist in project planning, technical risk management, performance engineering, and interface design.

• Provide expert-level guidance on aligning organizational vision, strategy, and operational needs with technical solutions and capabilities.

• Coordinate integration efforts across multiple major systems acquisitions involving interagency and cross-government collaboration.

• Supervise and guide a team of Senior-, Mid-, and Junior-level Systems Engineers, ensuring high-quality deliverables and aligned technical efforts.

Qualifications

Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees working on this critical National Security program, which include heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for you and your dependents, 25 days of PTO accrued annually up to a generous PTO cap and eligible to participate in an attractive bonus plan.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering, Computer Science, Imagery Analysis, or a related STEM field. An additional 4 years of relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree, or 2 years of experience with a non-STEM degree.
• 18+ years of experience working in government or industry in relevant work areas including: DoD/IC Acquisition Process, Requirements Process, PPBES Process or systems engineering of large complex System of Systems or Service Oriented Architecture environments residing in cloud, on premise, or hybrid infrastructures.
• 18+ years of experience with a and strong understanding of systems engineering
• Previous IC or DoD program/project work
• Experience in integrating spectral data into spectral exploitation tools (HSI).
• Direct experience supporting the NGA and/or mission partners. 
• Active TS clearance AND the ability to obtain SCI clearance and successfully pass a polygraph.

Desired:

• Master’s degree or higher in Systems Engineering or in a related technical or scientific fields such as Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Operations Research, Engineering Management, Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program.
• Working knowledge of Model-Based Systems Engineering, processes, tools and
• Software Development Framework
• INCOSE Expert Systems engineering Professional (ESEP)
• Licensure as a professional
• Membership or leadership participation in any of the following professional organizations:
  • ACSM
  • ASCE
  • ASPRS
  • OGC
  • SAREM
  • USGIF
• Extensive work experience in the field of geospatial
• Experience engineering solutions using Cloud-based
• Experience engineering solutions using structured and unstructured Big
• Experience engineering solutions using Automation, Augmentation and Artificial Intelligence
• Demonstrated expertise in photogrammetry, remote sensing, image science, information sciences, geographic informatio