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Lead Transition Engineer
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Chantilly, Fairfax County, Virginia, 22021, USA
Listed on 2026-01-24
Listing for:
xmstart, inc
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-01-24
Job specializations:
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Engineering
Systems Engineer -
IT/Tech
Systems Engineer
Job Description & How to Apply Below
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Base Pay Range$/yr - $/yr
PositionLead Transition Engineer —
Chantilly, VA
100% Onsite
Security Clearance Requirements- Active TS/SCI clearance with CI polygraph
- Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) or relevant field and nine (9) years or more experience;
- Master's Degree in STEM or relevant field and seven (7) years or more experience;
- PhD or JD and four (4) years or more experience
- Oversee, guide, and manage technical efforts for transition activities delivering vital mission operations capabilities. Efforts provide enterprise-wide, high-impact systems engineering and project management services
- Anticipate, assign, drive projects and customer requirements to closure; continually assess tasks, realign/reprioritize/augment assignments as appropriate
- Work with government managers to plan, organize, execute, and track efforts; maintain awareness of government's evolving needs and proactively provide analysis, insights, recommendations to improve delivery of services and/or exploit opportunity to enhance process, resource effectiveness, or efficiency
- Provide technical support to government contacts; identify and communicate status, risks, issues, opportunities, assumptions, mitigations, and dependencies for transition activities
- Promote and facilitate collaboration with government, SETA team members, and other contractors; across the enterprise, to ensure success of transition activities
- Develop assessments and staffing products for a variety of audiences, convey information in a clear and articulate manner to Government leadership
- Demonstrated success performing project management and systems engineering tasks, delivering mission capabilities
- Knowledge of SIGINT space and ground architecture including mission control and/or mission processing functions
- Program lifecycle experience from concept development and design to deployment, operations and maintenance, decommission; familiar with related control gates and associated documentation
- Experience with CONOPS and requirements development, systems analysis, interface control documentation, technical specification review, integration and testing; validation and verification
- Self-starter, proactively addresses customer requirements with no supervision; expert at defining solutions for broad, abstract topics
- Impeccable interpersonal skills and personal judgment, polished communicator (written/verbal)
- Master at collaboration and coordination with multiple stakeholders -- consensus builder
- Proficient with MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel), MS Outlook, MS Project
- Knowledge of satellite constellations, spacecraft orbit, tasking process, and ground station characteristics
- Knowledge of SIGINT TCPED process
- Familiar with MBSE/Digital Engineering, AGILE development, cloud technologies
Mid-Senior level
Employment TypeFull-time
Job FunctionIT Services and IT Consulting
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