High School Diploma/GED with 8+ years of relevant experience, or Associate degree with 6+ years, or Bachelor's degree with 4+ years, or Master's degree with 2+ years of relevant experience.
Hands-on ISR operations experience in collection management, GEOINT analysis, or all-source production.
Proven ownership of requirements and interfaces with traceability from requirement through verification.
Experience in performing and documenting trade studies balancing mission impact, timeline, and fidelity.
Working knowledge of commercial imagery across EO, SAR, and RF, including tasking constraints and degraded collection behavior.
Familiarity with structured analytic standards (ICD 203/206) and confidence language.
Responsibilities
Lead systems engineering for the TacSRT collection-to-product capability end to end.
Own requirements, interfaces, and data modeling with clear traceability to mission needs.
Perform and document trade studies on sensor selection and collection approaches.
Define expected system behavior in normal and degraded conditions.
Manage cross-team dependencies and surface changes before they impact other teams.
Serve as the primary contact for TacSRT system inquiries and mentor junior engineers.
Benefits
100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision for you and your dependents.
Up to 6% match to 401(k) contributions with an additional discretionary 4% profit share from day one.
Annual performance bonus eligibility for every role.
$200,000 employer-paid life insurance and short- and long-term disability coverage.
$5,000 annual professional development budget per employee.
20 days PTO plus 8 paid holidays.
Pet insurance, onsite gym, and flexible schedule.
Full Job Description
Why This Role Matters
The Senior Systems Engineer owns how TacSRT works end to end - the requirements, interfaces, and data models that connect tasking to collection to delivered product. You lead systems engineering for the TacSRT capability, work directly with CCMD, Space Component, and commercial provider stakeholders, and make the tradeoffs between sensor choice, timeline, and fidelity defensible. The system has to behave predictably in degraded conditions, not only when every sensor is available. What You Own
Lead systems engineering for the TacSRT collection-to-product capability end to end.
Own requirements, interfaces, and data modeling for that capability with clear traceability to mission need.
Perform and document trade studies - sensor selection, collection approach, commercial versus organic - with defensible rationale.
Define expected behavior in normal, degraded, and edge-case conditions, including denied collection and sensor unavailability.
Take capabilities from concept through requirements, architecture input, implementation support, and verification.
Manage cross-team dependencies and surface schema, interface, or tasking changes before they reach other teams.
Serve as the default point of contact for TacSRT system questions, and mentor Associate and mid-level engineers on requirements quality.
What You Bring Required Education & Experience
High School Diploma/GED and 8+ years of relevant experience, OR
Associate degree in a related field and 6+ years of relevant experience, OR
Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, Computer Science, Data Analytics, Mathematics, or related field and 4+ years of relevant experience, OR
Master's degree in a related field and 2+ years of relevant experience
Must-Have
Hands-on ISR operations experience: collection management, GEOINT analysis, or all-source production in a joint or operational environment.
Demonstrated ownership of requirements and interfaces for a capability, including traceability from requirement through verification.
Experience performing and documenting trade studies where mission impact, timeline, and fidelity had to be weighed against each other.
Working knowledge of commercial imagery across EO, SAR, and RF - revisit, tasking constraints, and behavior when collection degrades.
Applied familiarity with structured analytic standards (ICD 203/206): sourcing, confidence language, and stating known gaps.
Demonstrated ability to brief senior military or civilian stakeholders and manage cross-domain dependencies.
Preferred
Active TS/SCI, which removes the adjudication window that otherwise delays mission contribution.
GEOINT certification or NGA imagery analyst accreditation, or Space 200/300, Orbital Mechanics, or NSSI coursework.
Working familiarity with the Joint Planning Process and USSPACECOM / U.S. Space Force component relationships.
Salary Range (CO)
$110,000-$140,000 USD
Clearance Requirement: This position may require an active TS/SCI Clearance. Current clearance holders are strongly encouraged to apply. If you don't currently hold one, Bluestaq will sponsor eligible candidates through the clearance process based on program needs.
Relocation: Relocation assistance is available for full-time positions.
What We Offer:For full-time positions
100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision for you and your dependents
Up to 6% match to 401(k) contributions with additional discretionary 4% profit share on day one. Roth options available; no vesting period.
Every role is eligible for an annual performance bonus
$200,000 employer-paid life insurance, plus short- and long-term disability coverage
$5,000 annual professional development budget per employee
20 days PTO, plus 8 paid holidays
Pet insurance, onsite gym, and flexible schedule
Applications will be accepted for 60 days beyond the posting date, or until the position is filled, whichever comes first.
