Senior Systems Engineer — Vision for Mission Systems

Adaptic; Maryland; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Adaptic is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to lead the technical direction for complex mission systems supporting the DoD and Intelligence Community.

You will influence architecture, guide engineering teams, and ensure solutions align with the full system lifecycle from conception through decommissioning. Strong systems thinking, CONOPS development, and translation of customer needs into actionable technical direction across product teams are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a relevant technical field with 10 years of relevant experience, or Master’s with 8 years, or Doctoral with 6 years.
• Experience spanning conception, design and development, testing, production, deployment, operations, maintenance, support, and decommissioning.

Responsibilities

• Define and document CONOPS, requirements, and use cases.
• Lead or contribute to high-level system design.
• Establish system performance and interface requirements.
• Develop installation, integration, and acceptance test plans.
• Translate customer and mission needs into clear technical direction.
• Coordinate with customers, project teams, and related organizations to satisfy requirements.
• Assess engineering processes and work products to support objectives.
• Guide engineering activities across the system lifecycle.
• Resolve cross-system technical and integration challenges.
• Define and communicate a shared technical and architectural vision across product teams.

Skills

CONOPS

Systems engineering

Lifecycle engineering

Test planning

Cross-team collaboration

Architectural vision

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

Master’s degree in Engineering

Doctoral degree in Engineering

Job description

Adaptic is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to lead the technical direction for complex mission systems supporting the DoD and Intelligence Community.

You will influence architecture, guide engineering teams, and ensure solutions align with the full system lifecycle from conception through decommissioning. Strong systems thinking, CONOPS development, and translation of customer needs into actionable technical direction across product teams are essential.