Kratos Defense and Security Solutions

System Engineer

Aerospace & Defense
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years engineering experience
  • BS in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field
  • Experience proposing software solutions
  • Familiarity with modern IT infrastructure including virtualization and cloud deployment
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Working knowledge of space systems and command and control processes is a plus

Responsibilities

  • Support engineering contractual requirements for the C-SAR System
  • Perform technical analysis and studies for design reviews
  • Generate and maintain Interface Control Documents
  • Participate in and deliver CDRLs based on schedules
  • Support SecDevOps processes and Agile practices
  • Conduct requirements decomposition and analysis
  • Develop system design and architecture

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge SATCOM systems
  • Collaboration across multidisciplinary teams
  • Career development opportunities including customer presentations and design reviews
  • On-site work in Colorado Springs, a hub for aerospace and defense
  • Exposure to advanced software solutions and systems engineering practices
Full Job Description
This System Engineering position is an exciting opportunity responsible for Evolved Strategic SATCOM (ESS) task order execution in support of the highly successful Command and Control Consolidated System supporting the C-SAR program based in Colorado Springs, CO. The successful candidate, as part of our engineering team, will work with our management, product, and IR&D teams to help create strategic technical visions. Additionally, they will support requirements analysis, system design, reliability analysis, system hardware/software integration, risk management, and system documentation generation/updates. The candidate will work closely with system developers, test, and on-site user support personnel to support system updates, and ensure project objectives are met.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to
  • Supporting the C-SAR System Engineering team to ensure all engineering contractual requirements and deliverables are met.
  • Perform studies and capture technical analysis in support future design reviews
  • Support Interface Control Document generation and recurring ICWGs with internal/external stakeholders
  • Participate in CDRLs generation and deliveries based on customer prescribed schedule
  • Support SecDevOps processes and related Agile practices (Atlassian suite)
  • Requirement's decomposition and analysis
  • System design and architecture
  • Support Reliability analysis
  • System documentation generation and updates
  • Provide technical advice to our customers on architectures and potential solutions
  • Develop and deliver effective customer presentations (support design reviews, status reports, kickoff meetings, test plans) demonstrating an ability to communicate comfortably at a system level
  • Attend and support highly technical engineering team meetings
  • Travel as necessary to attend conferences and customer meetings


  • 5+ years engineering experience
  • BS in SE, CS, EE, ME, or other engineering equivalent
  • Experience/background with proposing software solutions
  • Support programs through SRR, PDR, CDR or equivalent design reviews
  • Familiarity with modern IT infrastructure capabilities to include virtualization, cloud deployment and containerization (CNFs)
  • Candidate must be self-motivated and comfortable with supporting multiple groups of developers, engineers, and testers.
  • Candidate must be able to articulate technical concepts orally and in written forms both internally to the team as well as externally to the customer and users.
  • Excellent written and oral communications skills.
  • Working knowledge of space systems, including ground systems, satellite command and control, and system development processes is a plus.
  • Attend and support highly technical engineering team meetings

Preferred Skills and Experience
  • Space to Ground ICDs
  • SCN (formally AFSCN)
  • MBSE
  • Experience as a Product Owner or other relevant roles
  • Knowledge of Agile methodology
  • Security+ certification is not required but is beneficial to the position

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The grade-based pay range for this job is listed below. Individual salaries within that range are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, and skills.

Competitive salary based on experience and education
Salary Range: $100,000-$130,000

This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date.

About Kratos Defense and Security Solutions

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. provides mission critical products, solutions, and services in the United States. The company operates through three segments: Kratos Government Solutions, Unmanned Systems, and Public Safety & Security. The Kratos Government Solutions segment offers microwave electronic products, satellite communications, training systems, modular systems, and defense and rocket support services. The Unmanned Systems segment provides unmanned aerial, ground, and seaborne, as well as command, control, and communications systems. The Public Safety & Security segment designs, engineers, deploys, operates, integrates, maintains, and operates security and surveillance solutions for homeland security, public safety, critical infrastructure, government, and commercial customers. The company serves national security related agencies, the department of defense, intelligence agencies, and classified agencies, as well as international government agencies and domestic and international commercial customers; and critical infrastructure, power generation, power transport, nuclear energy, financial, IT, healthcare, education, transportation, and petro-chemical industries, as well as government and military customers. Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.
Learn more about Kratos Defense and Security Solutions
Size
3,300 employees
Market Cap
$1.1 billion
Industry
Net Income
$79.6 million
Founded
1994
5 Year Trend
+8.4%
Revenue
$747.6 million
NASDAQ

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