TS/SCI Standards Systems Engineer – Technical Specifications

Vtgdefense; Bethesda (MD); On-site; USD 190,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

VTG is seeking an experienced Systems Engineer to manage technical specifications and design machine-readable schemas. The role focuses on ontology, schema design, and collaboration across stakeholders in a security-cleared environment.

Candidates should have a BS/MS/PhD with extensive experience (12–15 years for BS, 10–13 for MS; Doctorate possible), exposure to DevOps and modeling, and strong communication skills. On-site in Bethesda, MD, US.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.
• BS degree with 12–15 years experience or a Master’s with 10–13 years (Doctorate possible).
• Strong knowledge of DevOps, requirements engineering, coding, documentation, configuration management, QA, integration and testing.
• Experience with Protégé and OWL.
• Ability to build code collaboratively in a team.
• Excellent written and oral communication.

Responsibilities

• Technical Specification Management: maintain and update technical specifications with formal update packages.
• Ontology and Schema Design: capture logic as information models and define properties, relationships, taxonomies; formalize in machine-readable schema.

Skills

TS/SCI clearance with polygraph

DevOps

Requirements engineering

Coding

Documentation

Configuration management

Quality assurance

Integration

Testing

Team collaboration

Communication

Automation pipelines

UML & system modeling

Protégé

OWL

Education

Bachelor's degree with 12–15 years experience OR Master’s with 10–13 years OR Doctorate

Tools

Protégé

OWL

Python

Java

Job description

VTG is seeking an experienced Systems Engineer to manage technical specifications and design machine-readable schemas. The role focuses on ontology, schema design, and collaboration across stakeholders in a security-cleared environment.

Candidates should have a BS/MS/PhD with extensive experience (12–15 years for BS, 10–13 for MS; Doctorate possible), exposure to DevOps and modeling, and strong communication skills. On-site in Bethesda, MD, US.