Salt Lake City, UT

Salary
Posted
Jul 15, 2026
Location
Salt Lake City, UT
Last confirmed open
Jul 20, 2026

What this job asks for AI summary

Mid level · 4+ years · Salt Lake City, UT · Secret clearance · Full-time

Must have (1)
DoD security clearance
Nice to have (1)
DOORS or Jama

“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.

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How this req sits in the market our data

What the occupation pays Median $100,564 (middle half $82,352–$115,475).

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)

The role is titled 'Specialist, Systems Engineer' with no explicit seniority level in the title; advertised seniority is treated as Unspecified.

The clearance requirement states 'Currently hold a DoD security clearance' without specifying the level. The role involves defense/EW/SATCOM programs, so a Secret clearance is the most common baseline gate in this context — but the exact level is ambiguous.

The SOC classification is a genuine judgment call: the role is primarily Systems Integration and Test (I&T) on complex defense hardware/software systems, which sits between 15-1211 (Computer Systems Analysts) and 15-1253 (QA Analysts and Testers). The I&T planning, V&V strategy, and systems engineering lifecycle emphasis lean toward 15-1211 as the primary.

Minimum experience is 4 years with a Bachelor's, 2 years with a Graduate degree, or 8 years in lieu of a degree; the overall years minimum is set to 4 (the most common path). No degree is hard-required because equivalent experience is explicitly accepted.

Nearly all listed skills appear under 'Preferred Additional Skills,' so only the clearance (stated as a hard gate in the Qualifications section) and the DOORS/Jama tools are extracted as named technologies. The preferred section's other items (troubleshooting, lifecycle processes, communication skills, etc.) are methodologies or soft skills and are not emitted as skills.

Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): Model Based Systems Engineering.

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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