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# Space Vehicle (SV) Systems Design Lead

- **Company:** Lockheed Martin
- **Location:** Littleton, CO, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $151,200.0 - $266,570.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Systems Engineering, Databases, Systems Architecture
- **Published:** July 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9015297/space-vehicle-sv-systems-design-lead

## About the Role

* Bachelors degree in Engineering, Physics or related discipline, or equivalent experience

 * Significant experience in satellite design, integration, test and/or operations

 * Leadership in driving technical issues/challenges to closure

 * Proven satellite Certified Principal Engineer (CPE), Responsible Systems Engineer (RSE), or Chief Systems Engineer (CSE) experience

 * Active or Current TS or SCI security clearance

Desired Skills:

 * Demonstrated success in early program development and transitioning into AI&T execution and delivery

 * Strong technical initiative

 * Ability to lead multi-functional teams and lead multiple teams to communicate and coordinate work as one team with common goals

 * Excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong social skills, and ability to build consensus among peers while building solid relationships with team members, leadership, and customers

 * Ability to work in a fast-paced, synergetic team environment

 * Experience with satellite system and/or box level test and analysis

 * Experience working with mission CONOPS and how it evolves into the design reference mission (DRM), day in the life (DITL), or equivalent method of defining mission operations

 * Experience shaping Customer expectations and perceptions in a competitive proposal environment

 * Recognized as an authority in systems thinking techniques with the demonstrated ability to apply them to a wide range of sophisticated problems and train others in their application

## Description

This is a "Ground floor" opportunity on a new program award with a rapid Preliminary Design Review (PDR) and risk balanced posture to accelerated delivered capability.

This is a flagship program leveraging LM Space MBSE, MBE, and Digital Enterprise initiatives.

In this role, you will :

 * Establish system architecture and CONOPS, perform system trades and analysis, flow down the architecture and CONOPS into requirements and interfaces, and support verification planning

 * Drive the development and verification of Space Vehicle requirements

 * Ensure the logical and detailed conversion of customer or product requirements into total systems solutions

 * Oversee Element Level and below CPEs/RSEs for hardware, software, and databases to assure compliance with the spacecraft level technical baseline

 * Drive space vehicle certification

 * Effectively communicate to program and customer management

 * Travel occasionally as needed to achieve program goals

 * Participate in developing and executing critical development program key reviews such as SRR, SDR, PDR and CDR, communicating to program and customer management and executive leadership and in formal reviews

 * Drive all SV performance and integration activities (including support of all satellite testing) culminating in final certification of the satellite for Launch


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