Senior Systems Engineer TS/SCI | Cloud, AI/ML & MLOps

J&T; Elkridge (MD); On-site; USD 138,000 - 167,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, Dental, Vision Insurance

401(k) Retirement Plan with Company M

Paid Time Off

Tuition Reimbursement

Job summary

J&T seeks a senior Systems Engineer (Level 4) in Elkridge, MD to drive high-level system architecture, platform modernization, and secure integration for defense and intelligence systems. You’ll lead architectural trade-offs and partner with cross-functional teams to translate mission requirements into scalable designs.

You will guide cloud and platform engineering, AI/ML workflow integration, and secure operations, while ensuring compliance with security standards and data lifecycle management.

Qualifications

• Security Clearance: Active TS/SCI with a current Polygraph (CI Poly dated within last 5 years).
• High School Diploma / GED plus 14+ years of general systems engineering experience OR Bachelor’s degree plus 10+ years OR Master’s plus 8+ years OR PhD plus 8+ years of systems engineering experience.
• Core Competencies: proven track record in complex systems engineering, requirement synthesis, baseline management, and stakeholder technical communication.

Responsibilities

• Architect, analyze, and integrate complex, large-scale systems across all phases of the systems engineering lifecycle.
• Engage with multi-disciplinary teams and customer stakeholders to capture requirements, define baselines, and inform system architecture decisions.
• Evaluate system performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement modernization solutions.
• Collaborate on cloud engineering, platform design, and MLOps/DevOps pipeline integrations.
• Ensure architectures and network configurations meet classified security and information assurance mandates.
• Support data engineering workflows and end-to-end system interoperability.

Skills

System architecture

Platform modernization

Technical integration

Cloud engineering

MLOps

AI/ML workflows

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field

Master’s degree in Engineering or related field

Ph.D. in Engineering or related field

High School Diploma / GED + 14+ years SE experience

Tools

Amazon SageMaker

Job description

J&T seeks a senior Systems Engineer (Level 4) in Elkridge, MD to drive high-level system architecture, platform modernization, and secure integration for defense and intelligence systems. You’ll lead architectural trade-offs and partner with cross-functional teams to translate mission requirements into scalable designs.

You will guide cloud and platform engineering, AI/ML workflow integration, and secure operations, while ensuring compliance with security standards and data lifecycle management.