Staff Systems Engineer, Enterprise Mesh

Washington · Washington, DC (DC-01) · USD 191,000-253,000 · 10+ years experience · Full-time · Posted Sep 25, 2026

At a glance

We are looking for a Staff Systems Engineer to support the US Army's Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) program.
Solution Engineering sits inside the Army & Enterprise Mesh engineering team, leading the design of solutions that span multiple engineering teams and multiple companies while publishing reference patterns.

Lead partner engagements end to end; Conduct the technical exchange, own the integration design, and drive open items to written resolution across both organizations.
Design across organizational boundaries; Own the problems that span several engineering teams and more than one company, where no single team owns the answer.
Establish reusable patterns; Convert what recurs across engagements into reference architectures, decision guidance, and integration documentation, and define the standard other teams document to.
Own the intake process; Translate partner and field needs into scoped, prioritized engineering work, and return a documented decision on each request.
Scale onboarding across the Army; Identify where integration and onboarding depend on individual intervention, and establish the automated or self-service paths that allow every Army formation and industry partner to onboard without one.

Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance
Educational Background: Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
Architecture judgment in API- and service-based systems: Demonstrated ability to design and critique a REST or gRPC integration, an authentication flow (OIDC, service credentials, secretless), a schema or data contract, and an event stream.
Ownership across an organizational boundary: Experience as the technical lead to an external engineering team, or as the owner of a developer-facing platform surface with external or internal customers.
Technical program execution: Demonstrated ability to conduct a technical working session, hold a substantive technical position within it, document the resulting decisions, and track outstanding commitments on both sides.
Technical writing: Reference architectures and integration guides an engineer can follow to completion. A writing sample is required.
Communication across audiences: Demonstrated ability to convey the same technical decision to a partner's engineering team and to a senior military stakeholder.

Service in, or direct support of, US Army organizations, including a working understanding of how a unit adopts new software.
DoD delivery experience: accreditation and authorization processes, multiple classification enclaves, and operation in disconnected or bandwidth-constrained environments.
Co-development experience with a defense prime, systems integrator, or defense technology company on a jointly delivered capability.
Developer experience work: documentation as a product, SDKs, developer portals, onboarding automation.
Domain fluency in command and control, geospatial systems, data fabrics, tactical networking, or sensor-to-effector integration.

Highly competitive equity grants included in the majority of full time offers
Top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including comprehensive and competitive benefits package supported in health, recovery, and more