Engineer II – Core Systems

About the role

The Systems Engineering Department is part of the Engineering, Science and Analysis (ESA) Strategic Capabilities Unit. This unit provides technical talent and organizational leadership to deliver high-impact, discriminating technologies for our customers' missions.

Responsibilities

• Work in and lead a multi-disciplinary team to develop, maintain, verify and communicate the requirements baseline for a mission that includes Segment, Element (payload, spacecraft bus, and ground) and/or Subsystems.
• Develop new tools and algorithms for mission systems modeling and data analysis.
• Contribute to completion of milestones within specific projects and provide solutions to a variety of technical problems.
• Give presentations to peers, management, and customers.
• Support the proper allocation, traceability, and verification of requirements at all levels through the lifecycle of the program.
• Interface with and support the program's lead system engineer, chief engineer and customer.
• Coordinate requirements verification with I&T activities.
• Coordinate with and assist other engineering disciplines as assigned.
• Mentor other system engineers assigned to the team.
• Support the program Risk & Opportunity Management and ERB processes.
• Prepare and give presentations to peers, management, and customers.
• Maintain a regular and predictable work schedule.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships within the department, the Strategic Business Units, Strategic Capabilities Units and the Company.

Qualifications

• BS degree or higher in Engineering or a related technical field is required plus 2 or more years related experience.
• A current, active Top Secret/SCI security clearance is required with the ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret/SCI Polygraph.
• Experience with space systems and orbital dynamics.
• Analytic modeling capabilities.
• Experience using requirements database tools (DOORS, Jama, Cameo Requirements Modeler, e.g.).
• Experience with MBSE: Cameo Enterprise Architecture, SysML and DoDAF/UAF/UPDM.
• Demonstrated ability to review effective and verifiable requirements – detail oriented.
• Demonstrated experience in systems engineering processes, including requirements development, requirement allocation, change management, verification and validation – a self-starter that will own this activity.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating across multi-disciplinary teams to meet schedule and performance goals.
• Knowledge/experience working with critical customer base, established relationships with key personnel within customer community.
• Excellent presentation skills with experience to senior decision making and technical audiences.