Associate Technical Staff

nSI empowers our customers by supplying products, services, and expertise with powerful, data-driven insights that transform defense systems and improve capabilities. As a 100% ESOP company, we value teamwork and collaboration, offering significant advancement and personal career development opportunities within our dynamic high-tech environment.

About the role

Join our Ground Based Radar (GBR) Maintenance and Sustainment Services (GMASS) team in Colorado Springs, CO. You will be part of a team performing operational maintenance and sustainment of ground-based radars critical to U.S. and Allied strategic Missile Warning (MW), Missile Defense (MD), and Space Domain Awareness (SDA).

Associate Technical Staff are mid-level professionals with a solid understanding of technical concepts and skills, having completed relevant education or training and gained initial practical experience. You will work under moderate supervision, supporting projects, troubleshooting, and leading small technical areas while refining your skills through hands-on experience.

Responsibilities

• Conduct research, design, development, and testing of information processing hardware such as computer chips, circuit boards, computer systems, and electrical components.
• Design new or modify existing products, develop technical specifications for production, and analyze hardware configuration and processing solutions.
• Test hardware conformance to specifications, encompassing areas such as electronic design, mechanical design, reliability engineering, or related fields.
• Establish and conduct testing routines, develop or execute project plans, budgets, and schedules, and document work and results.
• Provide Engineering and Technical Assistance Support, Maintenance Planning & Management, Design Interface, Sustaining Engineering, and Incremental Sustainment Services to the United States Space Force Space Systems Command (SSC) Strategic Warning and Surveillance Systems Delta.
• Develop safety analysis for systems/subsystems, identify safety hazards, and recommend safety requirements to mitigate risks.
• Support integration, installation, test, and documentation of new and/or modified capabilities into systems.
• Provide Operations and Sustainment (O&S) hardware support for Upgraded Early Warning Radars (UEWR) at Beale, Cape Cod, Thule, Clear, and Fylingdales.
• Perform obsolescence engineering research and analysis on commercial-off-the-shelf and non-commercial hardware assets within the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS)/PAVE PAWS (PP) subsystems.
• Provide lab and site integration, test, and maintenance support; troubleshoot systems to resolve complex issues.
• Develop technical solutions to complex problems requiring ingenuity and creativity.
• Interact and coordinate with engineers responsible for sustaining sub-systems.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field; Technology or Electrical Engineering degree preferred.
• Full-time professional experience in areas such as Radar Maintenance, System Administration, Radar Operator, Computer Maintenance, and Operations.
• Active or obtainable Secret clearance.
• U.S. citizenship is required.

Qualifications

• Experience with design, integration, and transitioning products from development to production, and obsolescence management.
• Experience performing Failure Modes Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) and recommendations.
• Experience compiling and analyzing performance reports and process control statistics; investigating variables affecting products and processes.
• Experience recommending design or test methods and statistical process control procedures for product reliability.
• Experience with system-level hardware and facilities equipment installation, integration, and problem-solving.
• Experience analyzing hardware configuration and processing solutions, and testing hardware conformance to specifications.
• Experience mitigating hardware obsolescence issues.
• Experience utilizing engineering drawings and technical manuals for operating, maintaining, and troubleshooting equipment.
• Experience supporting integration, installation, test, and documentation of new/modified capabilities into systems.
• Knowledge and experience with Industry and Government Standards such as DO-160, MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-704, DO-254, DO-178, MIL-STD-1553, MIL-STD-1760, and Universal Armament Interface (UAI).
• Ability to support system integration, test, development, and execution of complex communications systems.
• Previous SENSOR or SMORS program support.

Benefits

• Competitive wages.
• Medical, prescription, dental, and vision insurance with Health Savings Account eligibility.
• Company-funded life, short-term, and long-term disability insurance.
• Personal Time Off, vacation, and paid holidays.
• 401(k) Retirement Plan.
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP).
• Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Norton LifeLock.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Personal development, technical learning opportunities, and Lunch-n-Learns.
• Corporate-sponsored events and community outreach.

Pay

Annual salary range: $56,200 - $118,600. Final compensation is determined by relevant work experience, skills, certifications, and geographic location.