POSITION: Chief Engineer
LOCATION: El Segundo, CA/Flexible
REQUIRED SECURITY CLEARANCE: Active TS with SCI eligibility; willing to take a CI polygraph
POSITION TYPE/STANDARD WORK HOURS: Full time, 40 hours
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Provide space acquisitions, engineering, operations, and technical advice and assistance for projects and programs at any acquisition life cycle stage.
- Support program acquisition for advanced technology, future concept development, and integration activities.
- Advise and assist on cost, schedule, and performance issues.
- Revise or draft Joint Capabilities Integrated Development System (JCIDS) and acquisition documentation for government program managers.
- Support presentations of products to internal and external customers.
- Documentation includes Initial Capability Documents, Interface Control Documents, Capability Development/Production/Requirements Documents, Milestone documentation, Acquisition Strategies, Analysis of Alternatives, Concept of Operations, Memorandums of Agreement/Understanding, Technical/Systems Requirement Documents, Defense Acquisition Board documentation, Technical Evaluations, System Specifications, enabling concepts, training material, briefings, white papers, reports, and analysis results.
- Provide draft SME-level technical and/or programmatic status reports of individual programs or portfolios upon government request.
- Identify and recommend improvements in acquisition processes and risk reduction.
- Assist in building and maintaining government risk programs.
- Maintain current program schedule awareness, monitor acquisition implementation, report requirement shortfalls, and assess programs based on identified risks.
- Provide advice on technical engagements such as technical interchange meetings, design reviews, and program conferences.
- Maintain broad awareness of all programs and technology development efforts.
- Assist integrated product teams and establish customer and contractor interfaces.
- Provide technical and operational insight for mission protection and operations.
- Recommend solutions for technical anomalies and evaluate impact analysis, audits, studies, compliance inspections, and readiness reviews.
- Provide engineering and technical expertise for ongoing and new Command and Control (C2) efforts.
- Integrate C2 efforts with classified portfolio and establish liaison between Space C2, Enterprise Ground Services (EGS), and classified program offices.
- Provide advice on test and operations, including support on test documents, planning, events, requirements, and data for Developmental and Operational Testing.
- Coordinate system-level test integration.
- Provide analytical and operational engineering support to developmental and operational units.
- Support operational mission planning, mission protection, and anomaly engineering.
- Support data and signal collection, processing, storage, archiving, analysis, and lessons learned for tests and operations.
- Assist with post-mission analysis and report execution results.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
- Must be an SME Recognized Industry Leader. Requires MA/MS degree and more than 10 years' relevant experience/status as follows:
- Expert in highly classified space control space, ground, and C2 systems (concepts, development, build, and test).
- Expert in maturing technologies through all TRL levels.
- Expert in architecture and technical requirements development.
- Highly knowledgeable in space situational awareness architecture development and capability limitations.
- Expert in systems engineering and program management focused on development, testing, and employing information operations, space, and airborne systems.
- Expert in space system design, development, integration, test, and operations.
- Expert in multiple space control-related technologies, including but not limited to optical sensors, radar, electronic support, signals intelligence, and communications.
- Highly knowledgeable in space control mission area.
- Demonstrates ability to develop, update, and coordinate ACAT-like program documentation.
- Highly knowledgeable in ground system design, development, integration, test, and operations.
- Demonstrates ability to organize and conduct system level technical design reviews and audits.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:
This position does not supervise the work of others.
WORK ENVIRONMENT:
This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
Must be able to operate a computer and other standard office equipment. Must be able to remain in a stationary position, 80%.
TRAVEL:
Little if any travel is required.
OTHER DUTIES:
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and/or activities may change at any time with or without notice.
COMPENSATION / SALARY RANGE:
BTAS adheres to federal, state, and local regulations. This is a Full-Time, Salary, Exempt position. The following salary range is what we reasonably expect to pay but is contingent and subject to a variety of factors, including but not limited to years of experience, education, certification(s), training, specialized skills, responsibilities, etc.
SALARY RANGE: $183,000-$300,000
BTAS BENEFITS:
A comprehensive benefits program, including paid time off, federal holidays, health coverage, 401K plan with generous company match is offered to all full-time employees.
