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 diverse 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.

• 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.

• BS degree or higher in Engineering or a related technical field is required plus 2 or more years related experience.

• Each higher-level related degree, i.e., Master’s Degree or Ph.D., may substitute for two years of related experience. Related technical experience may be considered in lieu of education. Degree must be from a university, college, or school which is accredited by an agency recognized by the US Secretary of Education, US Department of Education.

• 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).