Senior C-sUAS Systems Integrator — DoD Secret Clearance

Sherpa 6, Inc.; Fort Belvoir (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Generous PTO policy

Job summary

Sherpa 6, Inc. in Fort Belvoir, VA seeks a Senior Counter-Unmanned Systems (C-sUAS) Systems Integrator to deliver direct technical and program support to government capability managers.

You will lead cross-disciplinary integration across sensors, C2, networks, data feeds, and cyber capabilities to create cohesive C-sUAS solutions. The role emphasizes translating operational requirements into executable technical tasks, coordinating with OEMs and vendors, and guiding test events across

Qualifications

• Active DoD Secret clearance required.
• 8+ years of relevant experience in systems integration or related fields.
• Experience integrating multiple hardware and software components into an operational system.
• Knowledge of counter-unmanned-system mission areas (detection, identification, tracking, C2, and defeat).
• Experience troubleshooting interfaces, data flows, networks, or protocols.
• Ability to translate operational requirements into technical tasks and deliverables.
• Experience supporting military operators, government program offices, or acquisition organizations.
• Ability to coordinate with multiple vendors and government stakeholders.
• Experience planning or supporting lab, field, or operational test events.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Willingness to travel up to 25%.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior technical advisor to government C-sUAS capability managers.
• Translate operational challenges and mission requirements into executable technical and integration activities.
• Develop and maintain C-UXS mission threads, use cases, system requirements, interface requirements, and acceptance criteria.
• Integrate sensors, command-and-control systems, networks, data services, effectors, and supporting software.
• Analyze and troubleshoot data flows, component connectivity, protocols, timing, configurations, and interoperability issues.
• Support integration across air, ground, surface, and subsurface unmanned-system threat sets.
• Coordinate technical activities across government organizations, OEMs, software developers, and system vendors.
• Evaluate vendor capabilities, technical approaches, integration readiness, and proposed solutions.
• Develop system architectures, data-flow diagrams, interface-control documentation, configuration baselines, and integration records.
• Support network connectivity, data exchange, cybersecurity, access, and system-hardening activities within the authorized scope.
• Plan and support laboratory, field, and operational test events.
• Develop test objectives, scenarios, measures of performance, measures of effectiveness, test cards, and pass/fail criteria.
• Support system setup, test execution, troubleshooting, data collection, and daily operational reporting.
• Analyze test results, identify root causes, recommend corrective actions, and verify issue closure.
• Gather feedback from military operators and assess operational suitability, usability, and mission effectiveness.
• Develop leadership briefings, executive summaries, technical recommendations, courses of action, and decision-support materials.
• Support acquisition, fielding, sustainment, and configuration-management decisions.
• Maintain integration backlogs, technical action trackers, capability-gap registers, risk registers, and configuration records.
• Develop integration guides, technical playbooks, checklists, lessons learned, and troubleshooting references.
• Provide technical continuity as C-UXS technologies, threats, operational requirements, and vendor solutions evolve.

Skills

Communication skills

Independent work

Travel readiness

Technical liaison

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, information technology, systems engineering, or related discipline

Tools

REST APIs

OpenAPI specifications

Data schemas

System-to-system interfaces

Job description

Sherpa 6, Inc. in Fort Belvoir, VA seeks a Senior Counter-Unmanned Systems (C-sUAS) Systems Integrator to deliver direct technical and program support to government capability managers.

You will lead cross-disciplinary integration across sensors, C2, networks, data feeds, and cyber capabilities to create cohesive C-sUAS solutions. The role emphasizes translating operational requirements into executable technical tasks, coordinating with OEMs and vendors, and guiding test events across