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# Mission Engineering Analyst

- **Company:** Modern Technology Solutions, Inc.
- **Location:** El Segundo, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $165,000.0 - $205,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Requirements Traceability, Information Technology
- **Published:** July 31, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9068908/mission-engineering-analyst

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or other STEM discipline.
 * 6+ years experience in space, intelligence, or defense mission areas.
 * Experience with project planning, team leadership, and multi-organization collaboration.
 * Experience preparing and presenting strategic decision-making products, technical architecture documentation, and engineering review artifacts.
 * Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects, lead cross-functional teams, and coordinate acquisition and technical activities across stakeholders.
 * Willingness to travel (<10>
 * Active TS/SCI clearance (U.S. citizenship required).

## Description

MTSI is seeking a Mission Engineering & Advanced Space Projects Analyst to support Advanced Space Project acquisition planning and development, hosted payload acquisition activities, mission engineering.

Acquisition Planning & Development

 * Provide acquisition support for Advanced Space Project acquisition planning and development, including generating recommendations for acquisition strategies, procurement plans, and source-selection documentation.
 * Develop and maintain acquisition artifacts such as project baselines, requirements traceability plans, memorandums of agreement, project management plans, and resource/policy implementation plans.
 * Integrate analytical methods to evaluate program concepts, mission strategies, and system performance to inform cost, schedule, budget, and technical trade decisions.
 * Lead development of architectures for modeling, simulation, and data tools, ensuring alignment with acquisition objectives, operational needs, and prototype mission use cases.
 * Identify risks across operations, resources, networks, architectures, and mission areas to support strategic decision-making regarding priorities, funding, requirements, and resourcing.

Hosted Payload Acquisition Support

 * Support hosted payload acquisition planning, including maintaining integrated views of cost, schedule, budget, and technical performance relevant to payload hosting agreements.
 * Serve as a key interface between the program office and functional areas including contracting, technical engineering teams, cost/schedule analysts, and other program stakeholders.
 * Apply skills such as program management, contracting knowledge, technical analysis, price analysis, and budget/cost management to ensure acquisition cohesion and program execution health.

Mission Engineering & Team Leadership

 * Lead project teams including Aerospace personnel, government customers, and contractors across concurrent studies, eliciting needs, requirements, constraints, and engineering inputs.
 * Mentor early-career and experienced mission engineers, guiding development of mission engineering capabilities to meet emerging customer demands.
 * Oversee development of technical architecture artifacts, requirements verification materials, and strategic communication products for senior-level program decision forums.


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