Chief EO/IR Architect Engineer
$131,800–$290,000 year
On-siteDanbury, Connecticut, United States
Job Summary
Lead the end-to-end development of EO/IR systems from pre-proposal through final delivery, providing technical direction to integrated product teams. Evaluate and shape customer requirements to define future contract opportunities, while developing top-level system architectures for optical, electronic, and platform interfaces. Define and oversee system design trades, interfacing with customers as the lead technical representative throughout the product life cycle. Lead program teams to decompose requirements into lower-level assemblies, prepare design reviews, and drive internal IR&D projects. Decompose complex systems into logical building blocks, manage program planning including scope and budgeting, and develop CONOPS. Requires U.S. citizenship, Bachelor's degree with 12+ years experience or Master's with 10+ years, and proficiency in technical writing and requirements traceability. Up to 25% travel required.
Required Qualifications
- Must be a U.S. citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance
- Bachelor's degree with 12+ years of relevant work experience OR 10 years of relevant work experience with a Master's degree
- Decomposition of complex systems into logical building blocks and the ability to develop the requisite error budgets and requirements traceability
- Evaluation and definition of the optical, mechanical, electrical, and environmental inputs into an EO/IR system and their influence on overall requirements compliance
- Program planning including scope definition, resourcing, and budgeting
- Proficient technical writing skills including proposal content, requirements specifications, verification matrices, verification plans, and verification reports
- CONOPS development
- Technical leadership of cross-functional/discipline teams
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in architecting and/or developing imaging system solutions for spaceborne missions
- Knowledge of EO industry technical capabilities (e.g., focal planes, electronics) for space systems, supporting architecting of EO payloads
- Familiarity with mission‐level performance requirements including NIIRS (image quality), Modulation Transfer Function (MTF), Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR), Minimum Detectable Target, and/or geolocation
- Familiarity with mission‐level phenomenology including solar‐illuminated signal and thermal emission of objects and background/clutter and appropriate selection of spectral bands
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