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Open Positions:
Senior Systems Automation Engineer
POSITION SUMMARY:
The IAE is seeking a Senior Systems Automation Engineer to provide direct support to the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM). The duty location is Tampa, Florida. The USSOCOM Special Operation Forces (SOF) Acquisition Technology and Logistics (AT&L) organization requires a highly motivated engineer to fill a unique role as the Senior Systems Automation Engineer. They will advise organizational leadership on the technical aspects for a portfolio of complex collaborative autonomous systems.
The Senior Systems Automation Engineer will be part of a multidisciplinary team designing, developing, testing, and fielding intelligent autonomous systems. They will have broad experience in cutting-edge technologies in designing and developing large distributed software intensive autonomous systems. They will guide the development of technical standards and provide organizational leadership for their adoption across programs to ensure platform interoperability for autonomous systems.
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:
This position requires a security clearance and a non-disclosure agreement. A Secret clearance is mandatory with the ability to obtain a Top-Secret clearance as required.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
The Senior Systems Automation Engineer is responsible for the design and development of collaborative autonomous systems and the development of technical standards and processes to ensure cross platform interoperability. Specific responsibilities include:
- Providing technical leadership at the intersection of software and hardware to design, build, test, and demonstrate new interoperable autonomy capabilities that address complex client problems.
- Engaging key stakeholders to understand the system’s functional and quality attribute requirements, use cases, and workflows for autonomous systems and collaborative autonomy.
- Evaluate and assess systems architectures (hardware, software, networks) to analyze capabilities and identify gaps, problems, and issues impacting interoperability of autonomous systems.
- Advise leadership on systems engineering processes, best practices, standards, and technologies to ensure proper function of autonomous systems and enable seamless interoperability and cooperation between systems and components.
- Work with and coordinate multi-disciplinary engineering teams to design collaboratively autonomous systems spanning heterogeneous s