The Interface Engineer will be part of a small team of Interface Engineers that is responsible for the development of ICDs and IDDs. This includes establishing new interfaces between external elements, including space and terrestrial sensors. the Interface Engineer will work with his leadership to ensure resolution of issues and challenges that may be encountered. The Interface Engineer will ensure that ICDs and IDDs created are to appropriate standards required of the program. It is expected that the Interface Lead develop various behavioral diagrams to understand and document the requirements and create the ICDs/IDDs. The Interface Engineer will create requirements, captured them in DOORS at sufficient detail to provide clear understanding to the implementation teams.  The Interface Engineer will develop behavioral diagrams to understand the requirements and behavior of the interface.  The Interface Engineer’s primary responsibility will be developing and updating of multiple Interface Control Documents (ICDs) and Interface Design Documents. Successful candidate will attend interface working group meetings with MDA customer and representatives of assigned external element engineering organization as well as provide support to program integration and test related efforts for the associated interface. Successful candidate may also be assigned to support: other interface engineers in developing ICDs for other BMDS Elements, support requirements engineering, use case development, and logical architecture modeling tasks as SE department tasking requires. Successful candidate will support spiral leadership to assure interface artifacts and system assessment tasks required for the assigned sensor interface are completed when required. 

Experience Required

• The successful candidate will have 5+ years professional experience in Systems Engineering or related discipline.  The candidate will have significant experience in authoring ICDs and IDDs that are DID compliant and to DoD Standards. Must be able to function as part of an experienced team in developing systems engineering products and artifacts while adhering to the program  Systems Engineering Management Plan (SEMP) and other processes. Experience in authoring Space Sensors or Terrestrial Sensors is highly desirable. Experience with authoring Missile Defense System (MDS) or Space Domain ICDs and IDDs is highly desirable. 

Technical Skills Required

• Candidate must possess an understanding of systems engineering process and principles. A successful applicant should have a proven track record of successfully applying system engineering principles to develop product solutions. Candidates must have experience in requirements elicitation including the use behavior diagrams as an analysis tool to understand and decompose requirements. Demonstrated Systems Engineering skills and experience with interface engineering including authoring of Interface Control Documents (ICDS) and Interface Design Documents (IDDS), to include: message definition and processing rules; message formatting (e.g. XML, VMF, et al); physical/network specifications and models, to include the ISO OSI model; physical/network topologies and devices; network protocols (e.g. TCP/IP, UDP, et al) is a must. Requirements engineering, and development of behavioral models and diagrams including use cases, sequence diagrams, and activity diagrams are required. Excellent communication skills, both written and oral are a must.
• Requirements engineering, to include experience working with IBM Rational’s Dynamic Object Oriented Requirements System (DOORS) is highly desirable. Risk Management Framework (RMF) -based cyber security, and experience with Agile or Iterative Development Methods are a plus.

Education Required

• Bachelor’s Degree in Math, Science, Engineering, or Software Engineering. Master’s Degree desirable in an Engineering Discipline.
• Top Secret Clearance Required to start