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# System Engineer III

- **Company:** Chiron Technology Services, Inc.
- **Location:** Annapolis Junction, MD, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $190,000.0 - $200,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Systems Engineering, Information Systems, Systems Development Life Cycle, Information Technology
- **Published:** July 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=310a2046d5a3bd2c

## About the Role

* Twenty (20) years experience as a SE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity is required.
 * Bachelor's degree in System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required.
 * Five (5) years of additional SE experience may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.

## Description

* Develop operational view, technical standards view, and system and services view for architectures using applicable DoD standards
 * Conduct and/or approve end-to-end system trade analyses to optimize system operations over its life-cycle through the proper balance of non-functional system performance areas
 * Use validated models, simulations, and prototyping to mitigate risk and reduce cost of system development
 * Ensure effective, periodic review and control of the evolving configuration of a system, both hardware and software components and associated documentation, during the life of the system
 * Serve as a member of the CCB
 * Develop system design alternatives that consider life cycle cost, reuse, complexity, risk, system expansion, and growth
 * Develop alternative courses of action, workarounds, and fall-back positions with a recommended course of action for each risk, and monitor and re-evaluate risks at appropriate milestones. Monitors risks using earned value management (EVM) data
 * Improve standard integration strategies based upon rationale for previous decisions that resulted in improved integration performance
 * Fully define interfaces in terms of origination, destination, stimulus, and data characteristics for software; and electrical and mechanical characteristics for hardware
 * As a participant within an Analysis of Alternatives (AoA) effort, recommend a preferred solution based on selection criteria adjusted for reasonableness and validity of assumptions, technology limitations, environmental impact, and life-cycle costs
 * As a participant within an Analysis of Alternatives (AoA) effort, recommend a preferred solution based on selection criteria adjusted for reasonableness and validity of assumptions, technology limitations, environmental impact, and life-cycle costs
 * Maintain knowledge of current and evolving agency, national, and international standards applicable to the system development of interest. Apply and enforce use of suitable standards to ensure consistency and interoperability of developer hardware and software


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