Space Consulting Engineer Systems

Space Consulting Engineer Systems

Requirements

• Must have an active U.S. Government DoD Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) security clearance at time of application [US Citizenship required]
• Must have a completed STEM degree [**a degree in the fields of science, technology, engineering, or mathematics]
• 16 Years of relevant experience with a completed Bachelor’s (STEM)
• 14 Years of relevant experience with a completed Masters’s (STEM)
• 11 Years of relevant experience with a completed PhD (STEM)
• Experience with developing microservices.
• Experience with command and control supporting mission objectives.
• Minimum of 8 years of experience formally leading engineering teams/and or organizations to achieve a common goal.
• Must have familiarity with leading large technical proposals and the ability to lead the customer through reviews of technical performance.
• Strong collaboration skills with experience working across BUs, divisions, and sectors within NG as well as with industry partners and customer community, as well as strong communication skills.
• Ability to motivate and guide teams and activities without having formal ‘ownership’ of the staff supporting those activities.
• Must be able and willing to travel up to 25% as a part of the role.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical authority for the program, including chairing the Technical Review Board or Deployment/Production, and providing oversight for requirements development, hardware/software design, verification, and validation activities.
• Ensures that the program is adhering to sound engineering processes in the development, production, test, and sustainment of products for our customers and complies with company policies, procedures, and quality standards.
• Maintains cognizance over technical activities within program Mission and Product Areas and ensures horizontal integration of the best engineering practices.
• Ensures the execution of the program statement of work.
• Regularly takes a leadership role in providing insight and knowledge transfer to others on internal and external technical solutions to solve complex problems.
• Demonstrated ability as program technical liaison and ability to present technical solutions to senior leadership.
• Support the program manager in risk and opportunity management by identifying and owning risks associated with system performance.
• Provides technical leadership, direction, and mentoring to other technical employees in the application of systems engineering principles, tools, and techniques to achieve practical results.
• Develop advanced technological ideas and guide their development into a final product that has a direct impact on the Program and Operating Unit.
• Advocate and lead efforts in Digital Transformation initiatives.
• Be the technical point of contact for the customer for the Program of Record.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated background in successfully applying NG Systems Engineering Principles and Operating Practices to guide program technical design, development, and deployment of large-scale systems architectures.
• Ten or more years of experience in remote sensing applications across multiple operating domains (air, land, sea, space, cyber)
• Ten or more years of experience developing Ground systems across multiple operating domains (space and tactical implementations)
• Five or more years of experience supporting the development of mission-level campaign concepts of operations and enterprise-scale systems architectures.
• General knowledge of data exploitation, AI/ML techniques, and Automatic Target Recognition (ATR)
• General knowledge of sensor-to-shooter mission areas to include current and emerging needs and technology capability gaps.
• Existing relationships of INS customer(s) and their stakeholder needs
• Experience integrating multiple engineering specialties and stakeholders across multiple Teams and Suppliers
• Experience leading the design, production, and integration of complex systems
• Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) experience
• Experience leading the performance of technical tasks on schedule, at cost, and achieving all requirements as either a chief engineer or technical lead.
• Demonstrated effectiveness in achieving results through managing people and understanding and management of internal processes and customer/supplier relationships.
• Strong understanding and broad application of complex engineering systems (engineering standards, configuration management, material review board, process control, tooling, facilities, software, etc.)
• Ability to collaborate and achieve consensus when dealing with groups from diverse organizations and backgrounds.
• Demonstrated experience in making sound decisions in uncertain and difficult situations.
• Demonstrated experience with industrial or government construction projects.
• Breadth of technical background (all domain physical, security, phenomenology)