Systems Engineer

This Systems Engineer role supports advanced electromagnetic and space systems with a focus on spacecraft payloads, small satellite platforms, and mission-critical solutions for national security applications. You will operate in a multidisciplinary, innovation-driven environment, exercising significant technical autonomy to review, research, design, develop, and implement complex engineering solutions. The position offers the opportunity to work on first-of-a-kind systems in power-constrained, small-form-factor spacecraft, ground control and operational software, embedded software, and unique cyber capabilities, while contributing directly to highly impactful missions., * Formulate long-term plans for the development, documentation, deployment, and sustainment of engineering solutions, ensuring compliance with relevant reporting, safety, and regulatory standards.

• Determine technical objectives and solution approaches for advanced engineering problems, particularly in spacecraft systems, payloads, and mission architectures.
• Evaluate the integration of engineering solutions within the broader system environment and ensure that documentation, testing, maintenance, and engineering updates are completed accurately and on schedule.
• Guide the development and implementation of engineering solutions, including planning deployment, defining resource requirements, overseeing testing, managing integration activities, and ensuring compliance and safety.
• Plan and coordinate the maintenance of engineering solutions, including documentation, reporting, publishing technical information, and delivering technical presentations to internal and external stakeholders.
• Communicate effectively with engineering professionals, solution users, and management throughout the solution development lifecycle, providing clear technical direction and status updates.
• Represent the organization as a prime technical contact on contracts and projects, interacting with external personnel on technical matters that require coordination across organizations.
• Provide advisory or project leadership, offering direction and guidance to less experienced professional staff and leading multidisciplinary engineering teams when required.
• Participate in, and in some cases lead, the development of new or expanded business opportunities by contributing technical insight and innovative solution concepts.
• Plan for future applications of existing and emerging solutions based on new developments in engineering technology, particularly in spacecraft design, modeling, and mission operations.
• Maintain strict confidentiality of sensitive information and handle all technical and program data in accordance with applicable security and information protection requirements.
• Observe all applicable laws, regulations, and organizational obligations whenever conducting business, and consistently work in a safe manner aligned with established operating procedures and practices.
• Perform other related engineering and technical duties as assigned to support program and organizational objectives., CI/CD Aviation Equities Debugging Scripting DevSecOps Claude AI Leadership Management User Story Scalability Testability Market Data Claude Code Traceability Risk Analysis Ancient History Computer Science General Aviation Product Delivery Agile Methodology Software Solutions Workflow Management Customer Engagement Systems Engineering User Interface (UI) Air Traffic Control Regulatory Compliance Cloud-Native Computing Operational Efficiency Expectation Management Artificial Intelligence Regulatory Requirements Technical Documentation Agile Software Development Java (Programming Language) Scrum (Software Development) React.js (Javascript Library) Python (Programming Language) Federal Aviation Administration Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation +0

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• Progressive engineering experience: typically twelve or more years with a bachelors degree, ten or more years with a masters degree, or seven or more years with a PhD.
• Detailed and extensive technical expertise in the application of engineering principles, concepts, theory, and practice to complex systems.
• Proven ability to organize, plan, schedule, conduct, and coordinate workloads to meet established deadlines and milestones, including experience in project leadership.
• Real-world experience with system architecture, including defining and documenting system-level designs and interfaces.
• Hands-on experience with requirements tracking, including capturing, managing, and verifying system and subsystem requirements.
• Experience developing and tracking system budgets, such as power, mass, data, and other key performance allocations.
• Demonstrated ability to perform system-level analyses in support of trade studies and design decisions.
• Extensive experience with orbital dynamics and attitude control systems, including analysis and modeling.
• Proficiency with orbital visualization and spacecraft modeling tools used for mission analysis and system design.
• Strong understanding of principles for spacecraft design, build, test, and operation across the mission lifecycle.
• Experience with CONOPS (Concept of Operations) design and mission modeling to support end-to-end mission planning.
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to present complex technical information clearly to diverse audiences.
• Effective interpersonal skills that enable productive collaboration with other departments, all levels of management, professional and support staff, customers, and government representatives.
• Capability to represent the organization as a prime technical contact on complex engineering projects and programs.
• Demonstrated ability to provide technical leadership and guidance to less experienced professionals in a team environment.
• Ability to quickly understand new concepts and apply them accurately in an evolving technical environment.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Experience working on spacecraft payload and system development in small, power-constrained environments, such as small satellites.
• Experience in ground control and operational software development supporting spacecraft and mission operations.
• Experience with embedded software development in support of complex hardware and system integration.
• Exposure to unique cyber capabilities and security-focused system development for national security applications.
• Experience interacting with Department of Defense and Intelligence Community stakeholders or similar government customers.
• Proven ability to formulate plans based on innovative new designs to resolve advanced engineering challenges.
• Strong presentation skills, including the ability to publish technical information and deliver briefings to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Comfort working in a multidisciplinary, sometimes non-traditional engineering environment that emphasizes innovation and creative problem solving., Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors., CentOS Writing Jenkins Planning Teamwork Big Data Equities Leadership Enthusiasm Innovation Mitigation Market Data Coordinating Microservices Risk Analysis Virtualization System Testing Solution Design Ancient History Computer Science Database Systems Atlassian Bamboo Interface Design Agile Methodology Technical Support Solution-Oriented Security Clearance Workflow Management Systems Engineering Systems Integration Software Engineering Software Development Systems Architecture Atlassian Confluence Programming Languages Model View Controller Requirements Analysis Software Documentation Continuous Integration Collaborative Software Continuous Development Text Retrieval Systems Open Source Intelligence Dynamic Trunking Protocol Scrum (Software Development) Python (Programming Language) Metal Inert Gas (MIG) Welding Continuous Improvement Process Document And Media Exploitation Top Secret-Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI Clearance) +0

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