Systems Engineer - SATCOM at Peraton
Arlington, VA
$135,000–$216,000from the description
Jul 20, 2026
Arlington, VA
Jul 23, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A systems engineering role focused on space communications and mission-planning programs for the U.S. Government. Day-to-day work centers on developing and refining requirements, interface control documents, architectures, and verification artifacts across multi-system environments using MBSE practices. Suits experienced systems engineers comfortable working at the intersection of software, data, and AI/ML teams in complex, multi-contractor integration settings, with an active Secret clearance required.
Senior level · 8+ years · Secret clearance · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
What the occupation pays Median $119,144 (middle half $81,115–$160,963). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
No work location is specified in the posting; the CBSA/state fields are left blank. The role is at Peraton, which operates across many US sites; candidates should confirm location.
The clearance gate is 'minimum Secret with ability to upgrade to TS/SCI' — Secret is the hard gate today, but candidates must be upgradeable.
Degree requirement is marked None because the JD explicitly accepts 4 additional years of relevant experience in lieu of any degree.
The minimum experience floor depends on degree level: 3 years (PhD), 6 years (Master's), 8 years (Bachelor's), or 10 years (Associate's/no degree). The 8-year Bachelor's path is used as the overall years minimum as the most common baseline.
MBSE appears both as a required practice (in the responsibilities and required qualifications) and as a desired qualification for specific tooling familiarity; it is marked required for the practice/methodology and separately listed as preferred for specific tool experience.
AI/ML is listed in the required qualifications as a team the candidate must collaborate with and integrate technical inputs from, making it a required area of familiarity rather than deep expertise.
Agile and Model-Based Systems Engineering tools appear only under Desired Qualifications.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): Model-Based Systems Engineering tools.
Requires a Secret clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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