xmstart, inc · 3 months ago
Lead Transition Engineer
Chantilly, VA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$165K/yr - $190K/yr
7+ years expXMSTART is looking to add an experienced and strategic full-time Lead Transition Engineer to their team. This role involves overseeing technical efforts for transition activities, managing project requirements, and providing technical support to government contacts to ensure successful mission operations capabilities.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Machine LearningProject Management
No H1B
Security Clearance RequiredU.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Oversee, guide, and manage technical efforts for transition activities delivering vital mission operations capabilities. Efforts provide enterprise-wide, high-impact systems engineering and project management services
Anticipate, assign, drive projects and customer requirements to closure; continually assess tasks, realign/reprioritize/augment assignments as appropriate
Work with government managers to plan, organize, execute, and track efforts; maintain awareness of government's evolving needs and proactively provide analysis, insights, recommendations to improve delivery of services and/or exploit opportunity to enhance process, resource effectiveness, or efficiency
Provide technical support to government contacts; identify and communicate status, risks, issues, opportunities, assumptions, mitigations, and dependencies for transition activities
Promote and facilitate collaboration with government, SETA team members, and other contractors; across the enterprise, to ensure success of transition activities
Develop assessments and staffing products for a variety of audiences, convey information in a clear and articulate manner to Government leadership
Qualification
Required
Active TS/SCI clearance with CI polygraph
Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) or relevant field and nine (9) years or more experience; Master's Degree in STEM or relevant field and seven (7) years or more experience; PhD or JD and four (4) years or more experience
Demonstrated success performing project management and systems engineering tasks, delivering mission capabilities
Knowledge of SIGINT space and ground architecture including mission control and/or mission processing functions
Program lifecycle experience from concept development and design to deployment, operations and maintenance, decommission; familiar with related control gates and associated documentation
Experience with CONOPS and requirements development, systems analysis, interface control documentation, technical specification review, integration and testing; validation and verification
Self-starter, proactively addresses customer requirements with no supervision; expert at defining solutions for broad, abstract topics
Impeccable interpersonal skills and personal judgment, polished communicator (written/verbal)
Master at collaboration and coordination with multiple stakeholders -- consensus builder
Proficient with MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel), MS Outlook, MS Project
Preferred
Knowledge of satellite constellations, spacecraft orbit, tasking process, and ground station characteristics
Knowledge of SIGINT TCPED process
Familiar with MBSE/Digital Engineering, AGILE development, cloud technologies
Company
xmstart, inc
XMSTART is a highly trusted, non-conflicted professional services firm committed to delivering business and engineering solutions that drive customer success across a diverse array of complex missions and dynamic team structures.
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageRecent News
Washington Technology
2025-11-08
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