Engineer

• Execute technical design and engineering tasks related to high-voltage transmission lines
• Prepare and review technical drawings, specifications, and calculations
• Perform engineering analyses including PLS-CADD modeling
• Actively communicate and coordinate project progress with the Project Manager

Transmission Line Engineer

• Lead technical systems engineering on projects across IQT Engineering, managing project scope, technical risk, and schedule
• Rapidly develop hardware and software proofs of concept and prototypes to demonstrate feasibility and inform technology decisions
• Perform systems integration across hardware, software, and network domains, including single board computers, microcontrollers, and communication systems
• Design, execute, and analyze integration and test activities including bench testing, laboratory validation, and field evaluations
• Manage technical and schedule risk across projects, identifying mitigation strategies and working with colleagues to minimize overall program risk
• Develop technical documentation, test reports, and briefing materials for internal and customer audiences
• Present technical findings via customer briefings, blog posts, conference presentations, and publications, as appropriate
• Interface with government customers, technical partners, and portfolio companies to understand requirements and demonstrate capabilities
• Use generative AI tools to efficiently perform the above tasks

• Serve as Tier I help desk support, leveraging your Intelligence Community experience to answer questions and monitor help desk platforms to ensure mission continuity
• Troubleshooting technical issues and analytical workflows
• Conduct comprehensive classroom training at our Denver facility
• Travel to customer locations for on-site training delivery
• Facilitate virtual training sessions for remote users
• Provide software demonstrations to government leadership during technical exchange meetings and monthly program management reviews
• Represent user perspectives and workflows in development meetings, ensuring software meets real-world operational needs
• Test and evaluate pre-release software
• Triage and capture reported software defects

Mission Operation Engineer

• Lead the development and execution of user engagement strategies to enhance user adoption and satisfaction for geospatial intelligence solutions within the Chinook Program.
• Work closely with customer stakeholders, mission owners, and technical teams to understand user requirements, workflows, and pain points.
• Design and deliver user training, workshops, and informational sessions tailored to different levels of users, from operational personnel to senior leadership.
• Gather and analyze user feedback, providing actionable insights to drive system improvements, optimizations, and new feature development.
• Champion human-centered design principles and advocate for an exceptional user experience.
• Support Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog refinement, user story development, and acceptance testing.
• Coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and operational evaluations.
• Develop user engagement strategies to increase adoption of new capabilities across the enterprise.
• Identify usability issues and recommend enhancements based on user feedback and mission priorities.
• Present technical information to both technical, non-technical and executive audiences.
• Act as the primary point of contact for user inquiries, ensuring effective communication and timely resolution of any issues or concerns.
• Collaborate with other subject matter experts and technical teams to translate user needs into system requirements and functional improvements.
• Assist in the creation of user documentation, FAQs, and other support materials to help users navigate and maximize their use of geospatial intelligence systems.
• Stay current with customer missions, technology advancements, and industry trends to provide best practices and recommendations.
• Track user engagement metrics and report on key performance indicators (KPIs) to assess the effectiveness of user engagement efforts.

User Engagement Engineer – SME

• Support technology integration for and development of first-of-kind space vehicles and missions
• Develop and present review packages to internal and external senior leadership
• Work proactively and independently in a fast-paced, demanding atmosphere
• Ensure system hardware designs have adequate redundancy for required levels of fault tolerance
• Develop autonomy aligned with customer risk tolerance in the presence of anomalies
• Analyze system failure modes (via failure mode effects and criticality analysis or fault tree analysis)
• Develop software requirements for onboard fault protection to detect and isolate failures and transition to spacecraft safing modes
• Design autonomy or ground procedures to recover from failures
• Provide occasional on-call support for system anomalies

Experienced Fault & Autonomy Engineer – Experimental Space Programs

• Manage project engineering and related personnel functions and activities
• Ensure project engineering activities comply with company and contract requirements and support overall construction schedule (Primavera P6)
• Provide technical support for construction effort including participation in construction planning and design
• Develop, implement and administer project engineering procedures and other work controlling documents
• Represent company, project and/or department during A/E, client and project management meetings
• Interface all on-site departments as required to resolve problems, ensure quality of construction
• Oversee all pre-construction services, design build services, and business development for the project

Project Engineer

• Provide senior-level leadership expertise in wind tunnel experimental testing, design, and execution
• Provide schedule, budget, and performance tracking for large wind tunnel experiments
• Serve as the senior-level engineering support for safe operations of wind tunnel facility
• Ensure existing technical standards are met and establish new standards for evolving experimental needs
• Support development, testing, and documentation of rotorcraft aerodynamics and dynamic models
• Assist in documentation and review of experimental data collection efforts

Aerodynamics Chief Engineer

• Applies electrical, electronic and mechanical principles to components and systems
• Supports design, test, modification, fabrication, and assembly of prototype electromechanical systems
• Supports the Carrier Propulsion Plant Obsolescence Management Program
• Researches information for engineering material reviews
• Provides technical review of resolutions for obsolete material

Engineer Electromechanical III

• Applies electrical, electronic and mechanical principles to components and systems
• Assembly, analysis, and documentation of results
• Construction of developmental assemblies, sub-assemblies and components
• Quality testing
• Design, test, modification, fabrication and assembly of prototype electromechanical systems

Electromechanical Engineer 4

• Design, develop, and implement advanced navigation and estimation algorithms, with a primary focus on Kalman filters for Inertial Navigation Systems (INS)
• Model and simulate inertial sensors (e.g., accelerometers, gyroscopes) and GPS receivers to analyze and predict navigation system performance
• Lead the integration of navigation components into the broader GNC and avionics architecture
• Develop and execute test plans to verify and validate navigation system performance in both simulation and hardware-in-the-loop environments
• Analyze sensor data to characterize and calibrate inertial measurement units (IMUs) and other navigation sensors
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex navigation-related issues found during testing and operations
• Mentor junior engineers and provide technical leadership in the field of navigation systems
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including hardware, software, and systems engineers, to deliver integrated solutions.

Senior Navigation Engineer

• Architect Agentic Workflows: Design and implement autonomous agents capable of handling multi-step reasoning, tool-calling, and error recovery.
• Operational Discovery: Embed with logistics and support teams to identify high-impact opportunities for agentic intervention.
• End-to-End Ownership: Own the entire agent lifecycle: Discovery → Agent Architecture → Prompt Engineering/Fine-tuning → Hardening → Production Deployment.
• Build for Reliability: Develop robust guardrails, evaluation frameworks, and logging systems to ensure agents perform predictably in a high-stakes supply chain environment.
• Contribute to the "Agent Hub": Document and publish reusable agent modules and toolsets to accelerate AI enablement across the entire organization.
• Rapid Iteration: Bridge the gap between "cool demo" and "production tool" by shipping small, gathering feedback from domain experts, and iterating fast.

Forward Deployed Engineer III

• Support the Utility Delivery team with required reporting, data collection, and deliverables
• Manage and organize documentation for utility development projects
• Support project schedules and report on milestones for utility projects
• Support budgets and cost forecasting of utility projects, including construction and equipment
• Track and report on status and schedule of power delivery timelines
• Participate in procurement and project cost estimates
• Level pricing proposals for design, construction, and commissioning services
• Review monthly pay applications from the contractors
• Review change order requests from contractors

Utility Development Project Engineer

• Oversee or collaborate with Designers assigned to your work or team
• Review, comment, and process equipment and system submittals
• Perform coordination between civil, architectural, structural, mechanical, operations, and field team, and all electrical trades
• Prepare designs, check, and specify power, lighting, and auxiliary systems for photovoltaic (PV), distributive generation (DG), battery energy storage systems (BESS), or medium voltage (MV) systems
• Develop power single-line diagrams
• Develop and model short circuits and overcurrent protection device coordination studies
• Assist with the development of feeder schedules, determine cable losses, and model energy production under the supervision of a senior engineer
• Coordinate your work with the project specifications or equipment manufacturers
• Visit job sites to field survey existing electrical conditions under supervision
• Become familiar with engineering analysis programs to analyze loads, lighting levels, and short circuit currents under the supervision of a senior engineer
• Participate in project team meetings
• May interface with various team members, architects, subcontractors, and engineers from other trades
• Work closely with the engineering supervisor to understand design criteria and budgetary issues
• Assist and develop skills with drawing interpretation problems, conflicts, interferences, and errors
• Assist with the review of plans and technical specifications, contract documents, and estimates under the supervision of a senior engineer
• Assist senior engineers with field observations, design interpretations, and design updates during construction.
• This is a partial listing, and other responsibilities will be assigned based on the position’s role within the business unit.

Engineer I

• Build, operate, and scale AWS infrastructure that supports our microservices platform.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines that make shipping fast, reliable, and safe.
• Build reusable, templated configuration (Helm charts, CircleCI orbs) so teams get consistent, standardized deployments and pipelines instead of reinventing them.
• Manage infrastructure through code, treating infra changes with the same rigor as application code.
• Improve observability and monitoring so teams can understand and debug their systems in production.
• Partner with product engineering teams, translating platform concepts into practical guidance and cutting friction from their day-to-day work.
• Make and document thoughtful technical trade-offs, and grow into leading complex platform projects end to end.

Platforms Engineer

• Develop and analyze engineering designs and specifications to ensure compliance with standards, codes, and regulations
• Collaborate with project teams and communicate technical concepts effectively to achieve client expectations and project goals
• Assist in planning, implementing, and completing projects, ensuring effective application of scope requirements, management of time, quality reviews, and effective communications with team members

Project Engineer – Roadway

• Work on remediation projects
• Provide policy support on RCRA and other environmental laws
• Perform evaluations of waste treatment, storage, and disposal facilities
• Participate in site visits, data collection, and investigations
• Review technical/program documents and applications
• Perform environmental calculations
• Communicate with regulators on compliance issues
• Lead/prepare proposals
• Assist in preparing environmental guidance documents
• Interact with clients
• Up to 30% travel required, including international travel

Environmental Engineer

• Provide advanced technical engineering analysis and advisory support for IHSC enterprise IT systems and infrastructure.
• Evaluate system architectures, technical designs, and solution proposals for alignment with operational, security, and performance requirements.
• Support the review of, and provide recommendations for, enterprise system modernization, integration, and lifecycle management initiatives.
• Identify and assess technical risks, including scalability, interoperability, performance, and sustainability.
• Review and validate technical documentation, system designs, and engineering deliverables.
• Collaborate with project managers, developers, security teams, and OCIO stakeholders.
• Support troubleshooting of complex technical issues affecting multiple systems.
• Advise leadership on technical tradeoffs, risks, and mitigation strategies.
• Ensure technical recommendations align with enterprise architecture standards and best practices.

Technical Engineer III

• Support Government activities in Sterling, VA or Annapolis Junction, MD
• Responsible for physical/virtual platforms, server build deployments, server virtualization, hyperconverged platforms
• Designs, implements, and maintains VMware vSphere cloud foundation infrastructure
• Evaluate existing network infrastructure and systems to determine business needs
• Develop and deploy customized VMware solutions for various platforms
• Make informed design decisions and gather all relevant requirements
• Produce comprehensive white papers that critically assess recent technological advancements
• Oversee technology projects by managing both technical and administrative components
• Collaborate with the Information System Security Officer (ISSO) to secure an Authority to Operate (ATO)
• Develop plans to ensure systems fulfill specified requirements
• Apply core concepts and methodologies to design effective systems
• Incorporate new plans, designs, and systems into ongoing operations
• Develop system architecture and system design documentation

VMWare Engineer – TS/SCI w/ Polygraph

• Design, analyze, and tune spacecraft attitude and position control loops using time and frequency domain techniques
• Design, analyze, and tune sequential filters (e.g. Kalman filters) for attitude determination and relative navigation
• Design, develop, test and verify flight algorithms for the GNC subsystem and support flight software qualification testing
• Analyze and test the spacecraft GNC subsystem performance using simulations and other analytic tools
• Perform analysis to support early design phase concept development including actuator sizing and placement, sensor selection and placement, attitude and position guidance, rendezvous, proximity operations and docking analyses, and predicted performance assessments
• Develop simulation models for sensors (e.g. star tracker, rate gyro, accelerometer, GPS, magnetometer, sun sensors, visible and IR spectrum cameras, LIDAR), actuators (e.g. reaction wheel, torque bar, thruster, CMG), system dynamics (e.g. rigid body, multi-body, orbit mechanics, flexible models, propellant slosh), and the space environment (e.g. atmospheric, solar radiation pressure, third-body gravity, geopotential)

Associate Guidance Navigation Control Engineer

• design, integrate, test, and deliver flight control systems or mission-critical onboard software for unmanned aerial systems (UAS)
• Work on a team to develop, modify and tune guidance and control systems for fixed wing aircraft
• Work on a team to develop, modify and tune navigation systems based on sensor fusion of 6-DOF IMU, magnetometer, GNSS, pressure and ranging sensors
• Work on a team to develop and modify 6-DOF and Hardware-in-the-Loop simulation environments
• Simulation, analysis, control, and testing on 6 degree-of-freedom (6-DOF) motion platform for development and validation of autonomous UAS
• Aid development for unmanned aerospace includes guidance, navigation & control, mission sequencing, payload control, redundancy and contingency management, uplink and downlink packet encoding and decoding, converting between different serial protocols, hardware-in-the-loop simulation, ground-based GUIs, and aircraft subsystem control (i.e., payload, electrical systems)
• Embedded Software development (C/C++, Python, shell scripts)
• Writing/modifying software to adjust flight behaviors
• Use development tools such as: JIRA, git, C/C++, CMake, Linux, MATLAB
• Collaborate with a multi-disciplinary software team on large, multi-language projects
• Participating in code reviews, Flight Testing, and Customer Presentations
• Bench test, Hardware-in-the-loop, and field testing of UAS platforms
• Collaborate with other engineering disciplines (Systems, Software, Mechanical, Electrical) in planning, design and development of systems to ensure software and hardware performance and compatibility
• Design software architecture, interfaces, and gateways for communication with external Autonomy software services
• Implement functionality using a model-based approach
• Software verification and validation including writing Test Cases and Test Procedures
• Develop, implement, and document data and software application test plans to validate project deliverables meet quality standards

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