Job DescriptionWe are looking to expand our team with a talented and energetic systems engineer in support of development of ground systems for commercial, DoW, and other government customers. This position consists of working on a tightly integrated team in a fast-paced Agile environment to deliver continuous innovation to our customers.
What You'll Do:- Support design, development, integration and testing of an enterprise satellite ground system.
- Perform requirements decomposition, use case development, and establish verification attributes (Verification Test method, level, approach, success criteria, and Test Requirements).
- Support Interface definition development and documentation in the form of ICDs.
- Support trade studies, performance analyses, risk and opportunity assessments.
- Prepare and give presentations to peers/management/customers.
- Support program gates as defined by customer, such as the System Requirements Review (SRR), Preliminary Design Review (PDR) and Critical Design Review (CDR).
- Apply extensive technical expertise, and knowledge of ground systems and systems engineering principles.
- Guide the successful completion of ground programs and may function in a project leadership role meeting cost, schedule, and performance goals.
- Work may be performed without detailed direction. Exercise considerable latitude in determining technical objectives of assignment. Completed work is reviewed from a relatively long-term perspective, for desired results.
- Maintain a regular and predictable work schedule.
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships within the department, the Strategic Business Units, Strategic Capabilities Units and the Company. Interact appropriately with others in order to maintain a positive and productive work environment.
- Perform other duties as necessary.
On-Site Work Environment: This position requires regular in-person engagement by working
on-site five days each normally scheduled week in the primary work location. Travel and local commute between company campuses and other possible non-company locations may be required.
Working Conditions: - Work is performed in an office, laboratory, production floor, or cleanroom, outdoors or remote research environment.
- May occasionally work in production work centers where use of protective equipment and gear is required.
- May access other facilities in various weather conditions.
Short Term Incentive: Subject to business performance and recommendations of management, this role may be eligible to participate in an incentive compensation plan.
Required Skills and Education- BS degree or higher in Engineering or a related technical field is required plus 10 or more years related experience.
- Each higher-level related degree, i.e., Master's Degree or Ph.D., may substitute for two years of related experience. Related technical experience may be considered in lieu of education. Degree must be from a university, college, or school which is accredited by an agency recognized by the US Secretary of Education, US Department of Education.
- A current, active TS/SCI security clearance is required.
- Knowledge of related disciplines in software engineering, hardware engineering, integration, test engineering, quality engineering, configuration/data management.
- Knowledge of systems engineering roles and functions, including operations concept development, requirements management, functional analysis, interface definition and control, synthesis, and/or verification and validation.
- Experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) tools and processes: SysML diagrams (Block Diagrams, Inner Block Diagrams, State Machines, Activity Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams) and UML diagrams (Class Diagrams, Sequence of Events Diagrams, and Activity Diagrams).
- System modeling and simulation: Ability to create and simulate system models to analyze system behavior and performance.
- Experience with requirements management tool like Jama or DOORS.
- Experience in developing SEMP, specifications, ICDs, architecture, use case, and other ground CDRLs and artifacts.
- Knowledge of and support various test milestone like Test Readiness Review (TRR), Factory or Site Acceptance Test (FAT/SAT); Security milestones like Interim Authority to Test (IATT), Authority to Operate (ATO); Ground sell-off milestones like Ground Completion Review (GCR).
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Preferred Skills and Education- Any experience in mission management, command & control, mission data processing, ground terminal and infrastructure domains.
- Any experience with Risk Management Framework (RMF) and Information Assurance (IA) in developing ground systems.
- Experience with Agile software development methodologies.
- Knowledge of Continuous Integration and Continuous Development (CI/CD) principles with security requirements as part of practicing DevSecOps on programs.
- Experience in cloud development environment.
- Experience with Atlassian Tools such as Confluence and Jira.
This position will be posted for at least 5 calendar days. The posting will remain active until the position is filled, or a qualified pool of candidates is identified.
Multiple positions may be available on this opening.
