Principal Mission Systems Engineer

Principal Mission Systems Engineer

Requirements

• B.S. in Aerospace, Software, Electrical, Mechanical, Physics, Systems Engineering, or related technical subject area
• 15+ years of Technical Experience developing advanced space solutions
• Strong background in mission design and analysis in Remote Sensing, Communications, RPO and Dynamic Operations mission areas
• Strong background developing CONOPs, requirements, and interface description documents to flow to element level teams
• Strong Technical Experience in the Communications domain, spanning the complete OSI stack. Including but not limited to communications theory, frequency and bandwidth selection, modulation, encoding, transport protocols and standards (including CCSDS), application protocol and packet definition (file transfer, commanding, telemetry, command assurance), and communications security.
• Strong knowledge of In-Space Orientation and Navigation technologies and applications
• Strong background in development of solutions requiring complex hardware and software architecture design
• Demonstrated experience throughout mission design lifecycle from conceptualization through operational flight
• Experience developing high-level plans for end-to-end integrated system tests occurring throughout a program’s lifecycle
• Outstanding customer relationship skills including the ability to discover the requirements underlying feature requests, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and lead engineering efforts to meet ambitious timelines with optimal solutions.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of inclusion
• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with customers, stakeholders, systems engineering, architecture, hardware, and software teams to ensure cross-functional deliverables are identified and tracked
• Design and lead collaborative development of an end-to-end architecture that details how architectural elements are developed, constructed, deployed, and maintained across Space and Ground elements
• Assess system performance against current and future mission scenarios, manage performance and risk for scheduled missions
• Develop mission and system management CONOPs, and ensure design guidance is provided across operations, hardware and software solutions
• Perform detailed trade studies, ensuring mission perspective and analysis is integrated into trade criteria
• Coordinate and provide direction across diverse engineering teams to successful project execution by offering solutions that are imaginative, thorough, predictable, and consistent with organizational objectives
• Establish goals and metrics to identify opportunities to deliver customer solutions to cost, performance, and schedule requirements
• Serve as systems level focal throughout the program lifecycle as systems are developed, championing the conceptual vision and adapting it to reality
• Mentor and train across the program to ensure approach, philosophy, and technology are understood and implemented so they provide required capabilities and value to our customers.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ph.D. in Aerospace, Software, Electrical, Mechanical, Physics, Systems Engineering, or related technical subject area
• Multiple spacecraft missions of operational ground navigation support and/or leadership
• Applied expertise in ground-based satellite navigation and statistical orbit determination processes, including radiometric and GPS.
• Experience using the Monte software package
• Experience with electric propulsion satellite missions and/or GPS commercial satellite missions
• Active TS/SCI clearance