Payload Accommodation Engineer III
$121,023–$169,432 year
On-siteDenver, Colorado, United States or Reston, Virginia, United States
Job Summary
Serve as the customer-facing point-of-contact and technical advocate for payloads through the full lifecycle, from contract execution to launch. Support the development, allocation, and verification of requirements while assisting in creating systems engineering processes and tools. Work with multi-discipline teams to arrive at technical system solutions, ensuring consistent implementation of systems engineering practices. Execute requirements analysis, functional analysis, and safety analysis to drive reliability, maintainability, and operability. This role is part of the In-Space Systems business unit focused on satellite systems and space mobility.
Required Qualifications
- Passion for our mission and vision
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Mechanical, Electrical, or Aerospace engineering, Physics
- 5+ years of proven experience in systems engineering principles and execution
- Experience in one or more of the following areas: Payload accommodation, Spacecraft design, development, integration, and testing, Launch vehicles
- Experience with project or program management
- Enjoys a highly dynamic and fast-paced environment
- Possess skills in strategic system thinking, excellent written and oral communication skills, proactive in moving the program forward through team collaborations to achieve timely decisions, ability to earn trust, and maintain positive and professional relationships
- Knowledge of current systems engineering and integration tools and methodologies
- 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
- Must be able to obtain and maintain Merchant Mariner Credential, which includes pre-employment and random drug testing as well as DOT physical
- Ability to obtain and maintain Merchant Mariner Credential, which includes pre-employment and random drug testing as well as DOT physical
Desired Qualifications
- M.S. degree in a relevant technical field
- 8+ years of experience
- Expertise in the following areas: Payload accommodation, System development/integration
- At least one of the areas of analysis, design, or integrated testing
- Launch vehicles
- Focused subject area in one of the following: fluids, thermal, propulsion, avionics, or electrical hardware and/or software, telemetry/communications, structures, ground operations, or flight/ground autonomy
- Experience with the following: Reliability, maintainability, and operability analysis and execution, System safety, Testing
- Experience with verification of requirements using tools like DOORS Next Generation, system lifecycle configuration management tools, and other functional analysis toolsets
- Knowledgeable about system design and analysis and relations to element design at the flight and ground levels as well as component specification development
- Familiarity with the entire product lifecycle, including ground equipment and operations, manufacturing, and ISC considerations
- Active or the ability to obtain a Top Secret/SCI clearance
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