Systems Engineer -- CO

• Type: Contract
• Job #3697

Systems Engineer
Aurora, CO
Active TS/SCI w/ Poly
Compensation Range: $140,000 - $160,000

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:

• Member of a crossdiscipline specialist engineering team responsible for system problem/anomaly resolution support, data trending and performance analysis.
• The team also provides program expertise on engineering subsystems, maintains a baseline of operational products and provides operations certification training.
• Assignments can involve a combination of systems analyst and training related tasks.
• Analyst tasks and responsibilities will include the development and improvement of operations processes/products, investigation and diagnosis of unexpected system signatures, supporting the coordination and execution of system maintenance tasks, and coordinating across multiple contractor organizations, with the customer, and with our external system partners to diligently accomplish all tasks.
• Selected analysts provide oncall support to lead the resolution of system issues.
• Training tasks and responsibilities include development, maintenance and upgrades to operational training materials, and system simulator products.

Required Skills:

• Must have a BS degree in an engineering or scientific discipline plus (Requires a minimum of 4 years of relevant experience, 12 years without a degree).
• Demonstrated background in one or more relevant engineering disciplines
• Ability to develop and maintain operational procedures, products and training materials
• Good presentation, coordination, and communication skills
• Ability to complete assigned tasks under general supervision
• Experience in the design, development, testing, calibration or operation of IR systems
• Experience developing tools to support analysis of IR data
• Familiarity with key stakeholders, customers and processes in the IR community
• Experience trending and troubleshooting IR systems Experience coordinating and leading teams through problem resolution processes
• Ability to work periodic rotating shift hours (12 hour shifts)
• Ability to provide 1hr oncall support (1week every 6-10 weeks)
• Familiarity with Linux and scripting languages (especially TCL/TK and/or PERL)

Desired Skills:

• An understanding of large systems and the engineering change process
• Experience with Radio Frequency (RF), Digital, Power, Thermal, Control and/or communication systems design and operational use.
• Familiarity with Matlab and/or Python
• Ability to Travel, short trips 110 times per year