Chief Engineer

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and lead engineering efforts on multiple high-visibility programs and projects.
• Oversee and mentor a team of engineers to maintain existing software and hardware and support onboarding new programs.
• Lead architectural modernization and cloud migration for a variety of satellite programs.
• Execute engineering, architecture, integration, test, maintenance, and sustainment for successful mission execution.
• Organize and lead an engineering organization, designate IPT leads and their direct reports, and mentor staff.
• Lead, communicate, and coordinate technical reviews and assessments to provide status updates, highlight accomplishments, and summarize mitigations when necessary.
• Ensure all design upgrades adhere to requirements, customer specifications, and interfaces.
• Work closely with the Cybersecurity Lead to ensure systems operate within program and government cybersecurity standards and requirements.
• Write a Systems Engineering Management Plan and a Mission Assurance plan tailored to the ground system that includes Fault Detection, Isolation and Recovery of large complex systems.
• Serve as senior decision authority for the technical portion of the program.
• Chairs the Configuration Control Board, Risk Management Board, and maintains a compliance ledger and risk register for reporting.

Qualifications

• Active TS clearance with SCI eligibility and ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI and SAP clearances.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering/engineering technology in one of the following fields: Computer Science Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or Systems Engineering.
• 15+ years of Systems Engineering experience to include 10+ years in satellite ground system engineering, development, or integration, and 5+ years in chief/lead engineer role on contracts with multi-mission and multi-classification complexity.
• Systems Engineering certification from IEEE, INCOSE, DAU AWS and/or Azure cloud certification.
• Systems engineering lifecycle management (requirements through decommission).
• Architecture design and assessment for satellite ground systems.
• FDIR methodology development and implementation.
• Integration and test planning across multi-mission environments.
• Technical risk management and AoA leadership.
• ERB/CCB/PER/CAB participation and technical change assessment.
• Ability to identify single point failures and develop solutions or mitigation plans for them.
• Strong analytical judgment and problem-solving capabilities, particularly in identifying the execution of risks and recommending corrective actions.
• Exhibit strong analytical judgment and problem-solving capabilities, particularly in identifying the execution of risks and recommending corrective actions.
• Experience working with Space Systems Command (or predecessor organizations).
• Experience with the Atlassian tool set, DOORS, COMET, InControl, and Microsoft tools.
• Experience with hybrid on-prem/cloud ground system architectures.
• Experience with DevSecOps CI/CD pipelines for ground system development.
• Familiarity with multi-mission, multi-classification environments.
• Experience with cloud architecture (GovCloud, IaC, Kubernetes).
• Experience coordinating with SV contractors and antenna network operators.