POSITION: Senior Space Systems Engineer
LOCATION: Dayton, Ohio
REQUIRED SECURITY CLEARANCE: Active TS with SCI eligibility
POSITION TYPE/STANDARD WORK HOURS: Full time, 40 hours

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide space acquisitions, engineering, operations, and technical advice and assistance for all projects and programs to support any stage of the acquisition life cycle.
• Support program acquisition efforts for advanced technology, future concept development, and integration activities.
• Advise and assist the government on cost, schedule, and performance issues.
• Revise or provide draft Joint Capabilities Integrated Development System (JCIDS) and acquisition documentation to the applicable government program manager.
• Support the presentation 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 a draft SME-level technical and/or programmatic status report of any individual program or of the portfolio upon request by the government.
• Identify areas of improvement in acquisition processes and provide actionable recommendations.
• Assist in building and maintaining a government risk program, including risk identification, process definition, and detailed technical risk mitigation plans.
• Maintain awareness of current program schedule, monitor acquisition implementation, report requirement shortfalls, and provide a program assessment based on identified risks.
• Combine and correlate program execution data with program baselines to maintain and update acquisition reports.
• Advise the government program manager on technical engagements such as technical interchange meetings, design reviews, program conferences, video teleconferences, telecons, working groups, and informational meetings.
• Maintain broad awareness and understanding of all programs and technology development efforts in execution across the applicable portfolio.
• Assist integrated product teams and working groups and establish customer and contractor interfaces.
• Provide technical and operational insight to support mission protection, operations, and mission data assessments.
• Recommend solutions for technical anomalies.
• Develop, deliver, review, and evaluate impact analysis, audits, studies, compliance inspections, and readiness reviews.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• MA/MS degree required.
• Individual must be a SME Recognized Industry Leader.
• Must be expert in space system development and operations.
• Must be expert in maturing space system technologies through all TRL levels.
• Must be expert in space system signature measurements, predictions, and sensor development.

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: $187,000-$191,000 Annual Salary

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.