• Location: Richardson, Texas
  • Type: Contract
  • Job #3416

Systems Engineer
Richardson, TX
Active TS/SCI

Company Overview:
Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government.  Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees; we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission.  Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation’s toughest and most secure problems.  If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don’t look any further than Cornerstone Defense.

Job Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate with the multi discipline engineering teams to design and develop software
  • Assist in providing technical information and clarification during the entire software development Lifecyle, from conceptualization and design to development, testing, deployment, and operations
  • Perform solution decomposition from customer epics, to capabilities, to features, to stories according to SAFe Agile practices
  • Apply systems engineering expertise to feature designs to reduce overall risk to the software development effort
  • Engage with SMEs from other disciplines to fully understand the solution and document the designs.
     

Required Skills:

  • Demonstrated system engineering and technical experience with software systems development
  • Experience in agile software development activities, including system level design specification and integration test and verification activities (full SE life cycle)
  • Domain experience in IC GEOINT, including familiarity with common GEOINT still imagery data formats
  • Experience in development of ICDs, APIs, and system specifications as a primary author
  • Experience using the Atlassian tool suite, including Jira and Confluence
  • Experience in cloud or cloud-hybrid deployment environments
  • Ability to interact effectively with customer and consumer communities for technical exchange meetings and design briefings
  • Experience working in an Agile development team environment with multi-discipline engineers and stake holders, developing system solutions to meet customer requirements, requirements decomposition, and experience with CONOPS development
  • Experience working on teams addressing solution definition, decomposition, design and acceptance criteria
  • Experience in development of containerized software system architectures
  • Ability to function independently in the development and revisions of existing ICDs, APIs, and system specifications in response to contract mods
  • Program experience with requirements development and/or requirements maintenance

Desired Skills:

  • Experience with streaming data formats including Full Motion Video and Moving Target Indicator data
  • Strong communications skills to support technical exchange meetings and design briefings
  • Engineering experience working in the full software development lifecycle using Agile methodology that ensures high quality software is built and released to end-users quickly and within cost and schedule parameters
  • Experience using MBSE processes and tools to capture systems design and elaboration in Cameo or similar tools
  • Domain experience with active data types supported by NSGPDDs
  • Thorough understanding of the 12 Factor App concepts for service development
  • Strong experience with Confluence as a communications medium

Company Benefits:
Cornerstone Defense offers a comprehensive list of benefits, designed to give employees and their families several options to choose from when selecting benefits that best fit their needs.  These offerings include not only a full suite of the traditional Medical/Dental/Vision insurances, but also a number of other benefits and perks to include, but not limited to:  A 401(K) plan with a company match, tuition and training assistances, paid vacation/leave, a fitness reimbursement program, college savings plan, commuter benefits, financial advisory services, flex spending accounts, health savings accounts, STD/LTD coverage, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance programs, life financial planning assistance, and legal resources.
 

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