Systems Engineer Expert Level

The posting titles this role 'Expert-Level Systems Engineer,' which maps to Principal in advertised framing; however, the actual scope — supporting a single cryptologic dissemination customer with process and compliance work — is consistent with a Senior individual contributor, not a true org-wide Principal.

A TS/SCI with Fullscope (Full-Scope) Polygraph is an explicit hard gate.

Degree requirement is effectively None: the JD accepts a Bachelor's + 20 years, a Master's/PhD substituting for 2 years of experience, or a High School Diploma/GED + 24 years — equivalent experience paths are available at every level.

Total experience minimum is 20 years (Bachelor's path); the GED/HS path requires 24 years. 20 years is used as the minimum since a degree path is available.

Process engineering and Lean Six Sigma are listed as a single conjunctive/disjunctive requirement ('and/or') under the required section; captured as one skill with Lean Six Sigma as an alternative.

Intelligence community law and policy familiarity is listed under Requirements and treated as a hard gate despite the softer word 'familiarity' — it sits unambiguously in the required block.

All 'Experience Desired' items (Jira, SIGINT, CDRC, legal expertise, privacy law) are explicitly labeled as desired/preferred and are marked accordingly.

No work location or CBSA is specified in the posting; the role likely requires on-site presence at a cleared facility given the TS/SCI + polygraph requirement, but no city or state is stated.

Ignored 4 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): systems engineering, process engineering, intelligence community law and policy, SIGINT analysis.

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.