Mission Engineer and Integrator

Job Description

Mission Engineer & Integrator | Peraton

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Peraton, likely located in McLean, Virginia, USA. Peraton is a national security company dedicated to solving complex challenges across various domains including land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. This role is crucial for integrating technical operations, ensuring the seamless deployment and secure operation of critical systems that protect the nation and its allies. Employees at Peraton are tasked with solving daunting challenges for essential government agencies and U.S. armed forces.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Location: In-person – McLean, Virginia, USA
• Pay: $176000–$282000 yearly
• Mission: Provide technical and operational expertise for the planning and execution of technical operations, ensuring system usability, operability, and security for national security missions.

What You’ll Actually Do
• System Deployment: Deploy operational technology systems and equipment, participating in overseas deployments as directed by the sponsor.
• Operational Planning & Development: Generate and update concepts of operations, develop operational procedures, and provide critical operational input to the development of new systems and capabilities.
• Requirements & Analysis: Analyze situational conditions and constraints to identify appropriate technologies and equipment to meet operational requirements, and assist in reviewing, defining, and clarifying these requirements.
• Risk & Security Assessment: Perform comprehensive technical security and risk assessments, identify points of vulnerability, and recommend robust mitigation strategies, including producing counterintelligence guidance from all-source reporting.
• Continuous Improvement & Integration: Conduct trade studies from testing and operational feedback to recommend system modifications, ensure technical and operational constraints are addressed, and validate and verify all operational and technical requirements.

The Must-Haves
• Background: TS/SCI with Polygraph level clearance. This role requires a senior professional with a significant background in supporting technical operations, focused on mission engineering and integration, ideally with customer-specific experience.
• Experience: A minimum of 12 years of relevant experience with a Bachelor’s degree (BS/BA), or 10 years with a Master’s degree (MS/MA). An additional four years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Skills:
• Operational planning, deployment, and execution of technology systems and equipment.
• Technical security and risk assessment, including vulnerability identification and mitigation strategy development.
• Requirements definition, clarification, validation, and verification for complex operational scenarios.
• Conducting trade studies and recommending system modifications or upgrades based on feedback and intelligence.
• Crafting operational correspondence and contributing to operational approval processes.