Ground Systems Engineer

Booz Allen Hamilton•El Segundo, CA

About The Position

Ground Systems Engineer The Opportunity: Are you looking for an opportunity to combine your technical skills with big picture thinking to make an impact on national security space missions? You understand your customer’s environment and how to develop the right systems for their mission. Your ability to translate real-world needs into technical specifications makes you an integral part of delivering a customer focused engineering solution. If this sounds like you, come join Booz Allen’s Space Sensing Systems Engineering and Integration (SE&I) team to work on the military’s space programs. As a Ground Systems Engineer on our team, you will work with Booz Allen colleagues, your team, and the military to develop and deploy the next generation of Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR) ground systems capabilities to deliver critical information to our warfighters to quickly win or even prevent future wars. Your client will trust you to develop Technical Requirements Documents (TRDs), Interface Control Documents (ICDs), mission protection documentation, technical assessments, integration plans, verification plans, and digital mission and system models for satellite ground systems. You will grow your skills by researching new requirements, technologies, and threats and using innovative engineering methodologies and tools to create tomorrow’s solutions. You will grow your team to be the best they can be. Join us. The world can't wait.

Requirements

7+ years of experience supporting DoD weapon systems acquisitions or systems engineering
4+ years of experience performing systems engineering analysis and developing systems engineering products for satellite systems or ground systems for Command and Control and Data Processing
3+ years of experience leading teams of at least 5 people
Experience communicating and coordinating between the client, your team, related teams, and leadership
Experience with the development of technical specifications, interface control documents, ground architectures and designs, integration plans and schedules, and test plans
Experience managing traceability of requirements and developing testable criteria, system validation and verification, and analysis
Knowledge of network architecture
Knowledge of Agile methodologies
Secret clearance
Bachelor’s degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) field

Nice To Haves

Experience in modeling, simulation, or analysis of RF Systems, including Space-to-Ground and Payload Systems
Experience performing systems engineering, integration, and testing on space-based remote sensing systems, including SBIRS, Next Generation OPIR, FORGE, STSS, HBTSS, DMSP, WSF-M, and EWS
Experience planning and executing program reviews throughout the lifecycle of the system
Experience using a Model-Based Systems Engineering approach to manage system definitions and technical baselines
Knowledge of satellite ground system design, cloud architectures, DevOps and DevSecOps, software frameworks, communication and networking, data processing, exploitation, and dissemination, space system operations and tasking, mission planning, space-ground integration, or space system factory support
Knowledge of DoD 5000.01/02
Knowledge of systems engineering standards, including IEEE 15288.1 and IEEE 15288.2
TS/SCI clearance
Master’s degree in an Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or Computer Science field
INCOSE Systems Engineering Professional Certification, including ASEP, CSEP, or ESEP

Responsibilities

develop Technical Requirements Documents (TRDs)
develop Interface Control Documents (ICDs)
develop mission protection documentation
develop technical assessments
develop integration plans
develop verification plans
develop digital mission and system models for satellite ground systems
research new requirements, technologies, and threats
use innovative engineering methodologies and tools to create tomorrow’s solutions