ME00609-Systems Engineer 2

The posting lists no work location or CBSA — the NSA Full Scope Polygraph requirement strongly implies the National Capital Region (Fort Meade / Maryland area), but no location is explicitly stated.

The title is simply 'Systems Engineer' with no seniority modifier, but the 14-year experience requirement and the depth of DoD/IC responsibilities clearly support a Senior classification.

The degree requirement states a Bachelor's in a relevant discipline is required, but also allows substitution of 5 additional years of SE experience in lieu of the degree. Because the JD frames the degree as required with an explicit substitution path, it is treated as a hard gate; candidates without the degree must supply 19 total years of SE experience.

The NSA Full Scope Polygraph is explicitly required — this is the most restrictive clearance gate in the posting and drives the TopSecretSci classification.

'NSA systems architecture' and 'Intelligence Community Privacy Compliance' are named as distinct experience requirements with specific year thresholds in the Required Qualifications section; they are retained as skills because they represent concrete, named domain competencies the JD gates on.

The SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role is a classic DoD Systems Engineer (requirements analysis, architecture, integration, verification) which maps best to 15-1211 Computer Systems Analysts, but the depth of architecture and integration work could also support 15-1299 (Systems Engineers are not a separately enumerated SOC occupation).

No desired/preferred qualifications were listed in the posting.

Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): NSA systems architecture, Intelligence Community Privacy Compliance.

Requires a TS/SCI 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.