Job Description US CITIZENSHIP REQUIRED
We are looking to expand our team with a talented and energetic ground system engineer in support of operation of space vehicles and ground systems for commercial, DoD, and NASA customers. This position consists of working on a tightly integrated team in a fast-paced Agile environment to deliver continuous innovation to our customers.
The Engineering, Science and Analysis (ESA) Strategic Capabilities Unit comprises the technical talent and organizational leadership that enables the successful delivery of high-impact discriminating technologies for our customers’ missions. Our collaborative, cross-functional teams are committed to innovation, integrity, continual learning and strong execution.
Ground Systems Engineer in support of design, requirements, analysis, integration, and test of satellite ground systems for DoD customer.
What You’ll Do:
- Support design, development, integration and testing of an enterprise ground system.
- Apply extensive technical expertise, and knowledge of ground systems.
- Fully competent in core systems engineering skills, contribute to effective producibility of designs, and to cost, budget, and schedule constraints over program lifecycle.
- Guide the successful completion of ground programs and may function in a project leadership role meeting cost, schedule, and performance goals.
- Work is performed without appreciable direction. Exercise considerable latitude in determining technical objectives of assignment. Completed work is reviewed from a relatively long-term perspective, for desired results.
- Develop technical solutions to complex problems which require the regular use of ingenuity and creativity.
- Interface effectively with people at all levels and from different areas, seek out responsibilities and opportunities to contribute, regularly meets with customers, provide leadership to groups and teams and guidance to less experienced employees.
- Support the development of ground segment system engineering architecture/design.
- Perform requirements decomposition, use case development, and trace artifacts to architecture constructs.
- Support requirements decomposition activities which includes the establishment of verification attributes (Verification Test method, level, approach, success criteria, and Test Requirements).
- Oversee and guide the management of ground segment requirements – allocation, verification, and validation.
- Support Interface definition development and documentation in the form of ICD.
- Analyze and implement key program interface documents by tracing to ground requirements and design.
- Support trade studies, performance analyses, risk and opportunity assessments.
- Prepare and give presentations to peers/management/customers.
- Support program gates as defined by customer, such as the System Requirements Review (SRR), Preliminary Design Review (PDR) and Critical Design Review (CDR).
- Maintain a regular and predictable work schedule.
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships within the department, the Strategic Business Units, Strategic Capability Units and the Company. Interact appropriately with others in order to maintain a positive and productive work environment.
- Perform other duties as necessary.
On-Site Work Environment: This position requires regular in-person engagement by working on-site five days each normally scheduled week in the primary work location. Travel and local commute between company campuses and other possible non-company locations may be required.
Working Conditions:
- Work is performed in an office, laboratory, production floor, or cleanroom, outdoors or remote research environment.
- May occasionally work in production work centers where use of protective equipment and gear is required.
- May access other facilities in various weather conditions.
