CACI International

Systems Engineer, Mid-level

CACI International • $82K — $172K *
Aerospace & Defense
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • U.S. Citizen with a current Top Secret SCI clearance and polygraph preferred.
  • Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field with 5+ years of experience, or equivalent experience in Systems Engineering.
  • Strong communication skills for coordinating with diverse teams and stakeholders.
  • Proficient in technical writing for various documentation types including user guides and test procedures.
  • Experience in debugging and testing REST APIs.
  • Familiarity with dashboarding tools like Grafana and ELK for API monitoring.
  • Knowledge of RESTful API services and associated technologies.

Responsibilities

  • Own and update technical documents in collaboration with the engineering team.
  • Define and implement dynamic document generation based on system interfaces.
  • Become an expert in APIs and support external entities using various API standards.
  • Coordinate API data sharing requests and lead Technical Exchange Meetings with customers.
  • Provide technical integration support and assist users with troubleshooting.
  • Conduct technical briefings for integration approvals with the FADE PMO.
  • Perform API testing for endpoint changes and customer integration use cases.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive healthcare and wellness programs.
  • Financial and retirement planning support.
  • Family support services.
  • Continuing education opportunities.
  • Generous time off benefits.
Full Job Description
Job Title: Systems Engineer, Mid-level

Job Category: Engineering

Time Type: Full time

Minimum Clearance Required to Start: TS/SCI with Polygraph

Employee Type: Regular

Percentage of Travel Required: Up to 10%

Type of Travel: Continental US

Anticipated Posting End: 12/20/2026


The Opportunity:


As a Systems Engineer on the FADE team, you will be working closely with our agile development, product owners, infrastructure, site reliability engineering, and security teams to manage and track changes to the system as new capabilities are being added to the system.


This position requires you to understand existing program interfaces, but also track updates and additions to the interfaces and coordinate changes with the government customer and other teams within the FADE organization.

You will be a key member of the team, doing work that matters for some of the U.S. Government’s most critical missions, building relationships and interfaces that support the IC and DoD communities.

Responsibilities:


  • Own the program's technical documents while working with the engineering team to keep documents up to date
  • Define and execute dynamic document generation based on system interfaces
  • Become an expert on externally exposed APIs and support external entities utilizing custom APIs, Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) API standards, API Gateways, and others
  • Coordinate new API data sharing requests and lead Technical Exchange Meetings (TEMs) with external customers
  • Provide technical integration support and user troubleshooting
  • Conduct technical briefings to the FADE Program Management Office (PMO) for integration approvals
  • Perform API testing support for endpoint changes and customer integration use-cases
  • Possess the communication skills to coordinate activities among FADE customers, system engineers, developers, and mission operations teams
  • If/when necessary, analyze system requirements and assist in design and development activities to satisfy requirements

Qualifications:


Required:

  • U.S. Citizen and hold a current Top Secret SCI clearance and polygraph preferred
  • Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or related discipline from an accredited college or university and 5+ years of related experience is required. Five (5) years of additional SE experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree
  • Strong communication skills to coordinate activities among FADE customers, system engineers, developers, and mission operations teams
  • Technical writing skills to include: concepts of operation, software release notes, user guides, test procedures, engineering and architectural diagrams, and presentation development
  • Knowledge and experience debugging, troubleshooting, and testing REST APIs
  • Experience using and creating dashboarding tools (Grafana, ELK, etc) to monitor API usage
  • Experience performing system and user activity log reviews
  • Have knowledge of RESTful API services, OGC WFS and WMS standards, and Real-Time Streaming (web socket) and associated technologies (GeoServer, Jupyter Notebooks, Kafka, etc.) used for integration

Desired:

  • Experience with creating and maintaining Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) artifacts
  • Experience creating or maintaining DoD Architecture Framework (DoDAF) views
  • Experience with automated test frameworks that could be leveraged to perform API level testing

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Pay Range:

There are a host of factors that can influence final salary including, but not limited to, geographic location, Federal Government contract labor categories and contract wage rates, relevant prior work experience, specific skills and competencies, education, and certifications. Our employees value the flexibility at CACI that allows them to balance quality work and their personal lives. We offer competitive compensation, benefits and learning and development opportunities. Our broad and competitive mix of benefits options is designed to support and protect employees and their families. At CACI, you will receive comprehensive benefits such as; healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education, and time off benefits.

Since this position can be worked in more than one location, the range shown is the national average for the position.

The proposed salary range for this position is:

$82,100-$172,400

About CACI International

CACI International Inc is a multinational professional services and information technology company. It provides services to many branches of the federal government including defense, homeland security, intelligence, and healthcare. CACI has approximately 23,000 employees worldwide. The company's mission is to provide enterprise and mission technology services and solutions that best fit the needs of its customers. CACI has been named a Fortune World's Most Admired Company, a Washington Post Top Workplace, and a Forbes Best Employer for Diversity.
Learn more about CACI International
Size
22,000 employees
Market Cap
$7.1 billion
Industry
Net Income
$374.4 million
Founded
1962
5 Year Trend
+7.3%
Revenue
$5.8 billion
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