Multi-INT Engineer, Senior

Overview:

At Credence, we support our clients’ mission-critical needs, powered by technology. We provide cutting-edge solutions, including AI/ML, enterprise modernization, and advanced intelligence capabilities, to the largest defense and health federal organizations. Through partnership and trust, we increase mission success for war-fighters and secure our nation for a better future.

We are privately held, are repeatedly recognized as a top place to work, and have been on the Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies list for the last 12 years. We practice servant leadership and believe that by focusing on the success of our clients, team members, and partners, we all achieve greater success. 

Credence has an immediate need for a Multi-INT Engineer at the Senior level to support our Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS) program at Robins AFB, GA. The Air Force Distributed Common Ground System (AF DCGS) is an intelligence enterprise system, comprised of 27 active duty, Air National Guard (ANG), and mission partner sites, interconnected by a robust communications infrastructure spanning the globe. 

The Mulit-INT Engineer shall provide professional electronics engineering services in the application of advanced geospatial intelligence theories, concepts, principles, and processes to the development of ground and airborne ISR systems.

• Applies expert knowledge and mastery of advanced engineering theories, principles, concepts, standards, and methods to ensure assigned work remains consistent with program objectives, costs, schedules, performance criteria, and existing policies.
• Works with Government and Contractor personnel to oversee Multi-INT related work performed by private industry, such as design, analysis, and testing of Multi-INT systems and subsystems on, but not limited to ground based and airborne ISR systems/subsystems.
• Performs duties involved in research, development, testing and evaluation of Multi-INT design techniques. Researches, analyzes, and determines available options or the feasibility of different advanced approaches to resolve complex program issues; defines concepts and criteria for Multi-INT requirements and resolves major controversial problems in the current program.
• Provides innovative recommendations to alter standard practices, equipment, devices, processes and known techniques.
• Systematically applies expertise in electronics engineering to create new or substantially improved, processes, techniques, and/or procedures that address Multi-INT requirements and associated certification methods.
• Applies experimental theories, new applications, or developments to improve operations and/or resolve unique or complex/controversial problems, conditions, or issues.

Required Experience

• Top Secret security clearance with Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) eligibility is required.
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering from an ABET accredited school in Engineering or Computer Science is required and 12 years of experience, five of which must be in DoD acquisition
• Master’s degree in related engineering or scientific field and ten (10) of experience is preferred but not required. Five (5) years of which must be in DoD acquisition.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience as a full-time Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) engineer with full knowledge of technologies associated with the creation, dissemination, and transport of GEOINT imagery and image products.

Required Professional Qualifications

• Systems Engineering Qualification
• Systems Engineering Certificate or Degree from an Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET) accredited school, or
• DAWIA APDP Certification in the Engineering & Technical Management functional area, Level II, or
• International Council on Systems Engineering certification: Associate Systems Engineering Professional, or Certified Systems Engineering Professional, or Expert Systems Engineering Professional certification, or demonstrate a consecutive twelve months of DoD acquisition work experience, or
• Completion of DAU credential program CLCL 005 Supportability & Design Interface Credential
• Acquisition Qualification
• Defense Acquisition University (DAU) credential program, CACQ 010 Foundational Acquisition Intelligence Credential; or
• Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA) Acquisition Professional Development Program (APDP), any level, or
• A degree or certificate in LCM, Product LCM, or related field from any University or learning institute accredited by a U.S. Department of Education approved accrediting organization  

Recommended Experience and Skills

• Experience with the development and implementation of standards related to geographic information, metadata, geography, Geography Markup Language, application schemas, schema implementation & registries.
• Experience with Open Geospatial Consortium data & web service standards and implementation.
• Ability to guide development efforts in the effective use of standards to achieve mission capabilities with agile standards, as applicable.
• Expertise in Unified Modeling Language, eXtensible Markup Language (XML), XML Schema, JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), and JSON Schema.
• Familiarity with Next Generation Access mission, products, and role in the Network Security Group (NSG) community.
• Experience working with:
• Class Diagrams & object-based/oriented modeling concepts
• Logical data models and application schemas.
• Experience with application schema and XML implementation and programming. Experience in reviewing and writing technical documentation and reports.
• Experience identifying requirements for and implementing changes to support the entire suite of web services standards cited in the DoD IT Standards Register.
• Detailed understanding of NSG data standards and implementations, and the relationships between the data, web service, and encoding standards utilized to support data sharing operations across the NSG/Application Security Group community.

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Retirement Plan (401k, IRA)
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
• Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
• Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity)
• Short Term & Long Term Disability