# Lead Transition Engineer

> XMSTART · Chantilly, United States · Full-time · Posted 2025-11-05

**Salary:** USD 165,000–190,000

**Workplace:** on_site

**Department:** MERLIN (XMS sub to SAIC)

## Description

XMSTART is looking to add an experienced and strategic full-time **Lead Transition Engineer** to our team, in **Chantilly, VA.** This position is **100% Onsite.**

## Requirements

**Security Clearance Requirements:**

-   Active TS/SCI clearance with CI polygraph

**Education:**

-   Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) or relevant field and nine (9) years or more experience; Master’s Degree in STEM or relevant field and seven (7) years or more experience; PhD or JD and four (4) years or more experience

**Responsibilities:**

-   Oversee, guide, and manage technical efforts for transition activities delivering vital mission operations capabilities. Efforts provide enterprise-wide, high-impact systems engineering and project management services
-   Anticipate, assign, drive projects and customer requirements to closure; continually assess tasks, realign/reprioritize/augment assignments as appropriate
-   Work with government managers to plan, organize, execute, and track efforts; maintain awareness of government’s evolving needs and proactively provide analysis, insights, recommendations to improve delivery of services and/or exploit opportunity to enhance process, resource effectiveness, or efficiency
-   Provide technical support to government contacts; identify and communicate status, risks, issues, opportunities, assumptions, mitigations, and dependencies for transition activities
-   Promote and facilitate collaboration with government, SETA team members, and other contractors; across the enterprise, to ensure success of transition activities
-   Develop assessments and staffing products for a variety of audiences, convey information in a clear and articulate manner to Government leadership

**Qualifications:**

-   Demonstrated success performing project management and systems engineering tasks, delivering mission capabilities
-   Knowledge of SIGINT space and ground architecture including mission control and/or mission processing functions
-   Program lifecycle experience from concept development and design to deployment, operations and maintenance, decommission; familiar with related control gates and associated documentation
-   Experience with CONOPS and requirements development, systems analysis, interface control documentation, technical specification review, integration and testing; validation and verification
-   Self-starter, proactively addresses customer requirements with no supervision; expert at defining solutions for broad, abstract topics
-   Impeccable interpersonal skills and personal judgment, polished communicator (written/verbal)
-   Master at collaboration and coordination with multiple stakeholders -- consensus builder
-   Proficient with MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel), MS Outlook, MS Project

**Desired/Preferred Qualifications:**

-   Knowledge of satellite constellations, spacecraft orbit, tasking process, and ground station characteristics
-   Knowledge of SIGINT TCPED process
-   Familiar with MBSE/Digital Engineering, AGILE development, cloud technologies

## Apply

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