Interface Systems Engineer Onsite (Huntsville, AL)

An organization is seeking an Interface Systems Engineer to support the Command, Control, Battle Management and Communications (C2BMC) program. This is an onsite role in Huntsville, AL.

The C2BMC program integrates the Missile Defense System and is a vital operational system that enables the U.S. president, secretary of defense, and combatant commanders at strategic, regional, and operational levels to systematically plan ballistic missile defense operations. C2BMC allows commanders to see the battle collectively and manage designated networked sensors and weapons systems dynamically to achieve global and regional mission objectives. This program also plays a crucial role in all system ground and flight tests, which verify and exercise all current and future missile defense system capabilities.

This position will be assigned to the C2BMC Systems Engineering Team within SEIT. The Interface Engineer is a Systems Engineer and will occasionally support non-interface systems engineering activities. The Engineer will lead the development of Interface Control Documents (ICDs) and Interface Design Documents (IDDs), including establishing new interfaces between external elements such as sensors and other Command and Control Systems. The Engineer will also ensure that the ICDs and IDDs comply with the applicable program standards. Additionally, the Engineer is expected to develop behavioral diagrams to document requirements and create detailed requirements in DOORS to provide clear guidance to implementation teams.

• Develop and update multiple ICDs and IDDs.

• Attend interface working group meetings with the MDA customer and representatives from external element engineering organizations.

• Support program integration and test efforts related to the interface.

• Assist other interface engineers with ICD development for additional BMDS Elements.

• Support requirements engineering, use case development, and logical architecture modeling tasks.

• Support spiral leadership to ensure completion of interface artifacts and system assessment tasks for the assigned sensor interface.

• Current/active in-scope DoD issued SECRET security clearance.

• 8 years of related experience with a Bachelors degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline,
  OR a Masters degree and 6 years of experience,
  OR a PhD and 4 years of experience,
  OR 12 years of related experience in lieu of a degree may be considered.

• Strong understanding of the systems engineering process and its principles.

• Proven history of successfully applying systems engineering principles to develop product solutions.

• Experience in requirements elicitation, using behavior diagrams to understand and decompose requirements.

• Demonstrated Systems Engineering skills and experience with interface engineering, including authoring ICDs and IDDs, covering:

  • Message definition and processing rules

  • Message formatting (e.g., XML, VMF, etc.)

  • Physical/network specifications and models, including the ISO OSI model

  • Network topologies and devices

  • Network protocols (e.g., TCP/IP, UDP, etc.)

• Extensive knowledge and experience in requirements engineering and behavioral models/diagrams, including:

  • Use cases

  • Sequence diagrams

  • Activity diagrams

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• A Masters degree in STEM Systems Engineering.

• INCOSE Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP) Certification.

• Object Management Group Certified Systems Modeling Professional Model Builder Fundamental (OCSMP-MBF).

• Experience authoring Missile Defense System (MDS) ICDs and IDDs.

• Experience authoring Complex Command and Control Systems ICDs and IDDs.

• Experience with IBM Rational DOORS for requirements engineering.

• Knowledge of Risk Management Framework (RMF)-based cybersecurity.

• Experience with Agile or iterative development methods.