Principal Software Systems Engineer

About the position

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Perform other duties as necessary.

Requirements

• BS degree or higher in Engineering or a related technical field is required plus 6 or more years related experience.
• A current, active Secret security clearance is required with ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI.
• Knowledge of related disciplines in software engineering, hardware engineering, integration, test engineering, quality engineering, configuration/data management.
• Knowledge of systems engineering roles and functions, including operations concept development, requirements management, functional analysis, interface definition and control, synthesis, and/or verification and validation.
• Experience in developing SEMP, specifications, ICDs, architecture, use case, and other ground CDRLs and artifacts.
• Knowledge of and support various test milestone like Test Readiness Review (TRR), Factory or Site Acceptance Test (FAT/SAT); Security milestones like Interim Authority to Test (IATT), Authority to Operate (ATO); Ground sell-off milestones like Ground Completion Review (GCR).

Nice-to-haves

• Any experience in mission management, command & control, mission data processing, ground terminal and infrastructure domains.
• Any experience with any ground or mission integration including operations readiness activities, rehearsals and launch support activities.
• Any experience with Risk Management Framework (RMF) and Information Assurance (IA) in developing ground systems.
• Experience with Agile EVM and Agile software development methodologies.
• Knowledge of Continuous Integration and Continuous Development (CICD) principles with security requirements as part of practicing DevSecOps on programs.
• Experience in cloud development environment.
• Experience with requirements management tool like Jama or DOORS.
• Experience with Model Base Systems Engineering (MBSE) SysML diagrams and UML diagrams.
• Experience with Atlassian Tools such as Confluence and Jira.

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Health savings accounts.
• 401(k) savings plan.
• Disability coverage.
• Life and accident insurance.
• Employee assistance program.
• Legal plan.
• Discounts on home, auto, and pet insurance.
• Paid time off.
• Paid holidays.
• Paid parental leave.
• Military leave.
• Bereavement leave.
• Federal and state sick leave.
• Company recognition program.