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.