Systems Engineer
Core4ce Careers
$150,000–$197,000from the description
Jul 14, 2026
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Jul 20, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior-level systems engineering role focused on the full lifecycle of complex hardware/software systems — from concept and design through testing, deployment, and disposal. Day-to-day work spans requirements analysis, system integration, verification and validation, trade studies, interface definition, and cost/risk analysis. The role suits a highly experienced engineer comfortable translating operational requirements into technically sound, implementable solutions in a national security context.
Senior level · 13+ years · National · Bachelor's required · TS/SCI clearance · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $108,178 (middle half $84,682–$137,059). 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 (7)
No work location or CBSA is specified in the posting; the metro field has been left blank. Given the TS/SCI + CI Poly requirement and the defense/national-security focus, the role is almost certainly on-site at a cleared facility, but the specific site is not disclosed.
The clearance requirement is TS/SCI with a Counterintelligence (CI) Polygraph that must be obtained — this is treated as a hard gate.
Two degree paths are stated: MS/MA with 13+ years OR BS/BA with 15+ years. The minimum hard-required degree is a Bachelor's (the lower threshold), and the overall years minimum is set to 13 (the lower of the two experience floors, corresponding to the MS path). A candidate with only a BS would need 15 years.
The role is titled 'Systems Engineer' with no level modifier, so advertised seniority is Unspecified. The 13–15+ year experience requirement and the breadth of lifecycle ownership support a Senior classification.
Skills in this posting are largely methodology-based (systems engineering lifecycle, V&V, requirements analysis) rather than named software tools. No specific tooling (e.g., DOORS, MATLAB, SysML) is mentioned, so no tool-level skills are emitted. Trade studies and modeling/simulation appear in the responsibilities narrative rather than the requirements section and are marked preferred accordingly.
Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): systems engineering lifecycle, functional 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.
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