Space System Engineer - Level 4
$31,200–$31,200 year
On-siteChantilly, Virginia, United States
Job Summary
Conduct initialization, characterization, and on-orbit calibration and validation activities for space systems while coordinating requirements changes across development contractors, mission analysis, and acquisition teams. Assess design maturity, verify requirements compliance, and review acquisition milestone documentation for accuracy, identifying cost, schedule, and technical risks to recommend mitigation strategies. Support technical and programmatic reviews including SRR, PDR, CDR, and TRR by delivering informed engineering recommendations that advance program objectives and mission readiness. Travel up to 25% and work on-site in a government or contractor facility.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in STEM (science, technical, engineering, math) or related discipline with 5-9 years of relevant experience
- Understanding of Department of War/Intelligence Community (DOW/IC) satellite systems and architecture
- Excellent interpersonal, leadership, team building, and problem-solving skills with a demonstrated ability to be independent and effective in a government/contractor team environment
- Experience in DOW/IC acquisition and program management processes
- Experience supporting the design, integration, testing, and operation of space payload systems for government, commercial, or defense space programs
- Familiarity with spacecraft payload architectures including Electro Optical/Infrared (EO/IR) sensors, imaging payloads, or scientific instrumentation
- Knowledge of systems engineering processes throughout the payload lifecycle including requirements development, verification, validation, and mission integration
- Experience conducting payload performance analysis, link budgets, or mission data analysis
- Experience working within multi-disciplinary engineering teams supporting spacecraft bus, mission operations, and ground segment integration
- Proficiency with engineering and analysis tools such as MATLAB, Python, STK, LabVIEW, DOORS, Cameo, or equivalent modeling and simulation environments
- Familiarity with developing and implementing automated strategies to include collection strategies and orchestration
- Understanding of space environment impacts including radiation effects, thermal constraints, orbital dynamics, and reliability considerations
- Ability to support technical reviews including SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, and mission readiness reviews
- Experience developing technical documentation, interface control documents (ICDs), verification plans, and test procedures
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills with the ability to work in fast-paced mission environments
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with experience presenting technical information to customers and program leadership
- Demonstrated sustained superior performance
- U.S. Citizenship
- Active Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) clearance
- Active Counterintelligence (CI) or Full Scope (FS) Polygraph
- Travel up to 25%
Desired Qualifications
- Advanced degree in STEM (science, technical, engineering, math) or related discipline with emphasis on MBSE
- Prior Program Office experience
- Previous experience developing optical telescopes, or remote imaging systems
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