Engineer Principal – Ground Systems

About the role

We are expanding our team with a systems engineer to support the development of ground systems for commercial, Department of Defense, and other government customers. You will work on a tightly integrated team in a fast-paced Agile environment delivering continuous innovation to our customers.

Responsibilities

• Support design, development, integration, and testing of an enterprise satellite ground system.
• Perform requirements decomposition, use case development, and establish verification attributes (verification test method, level, approach, success criteria, and test requirements).
• Support interface definition development and documentation in the form of Interface Control Documents (ICDs).
• Support trade studies, performance analyses, risk and opportunity assessments.
• Prepare and give presentations to peers, management, and customers.
• Support program gates such as System Requirements Review (SRR), Preliminary Design Review (PDR), and Critical Design Review (CDR).
• Apply extensive technical expertise and knowledge of ground systems and systems engineering principles.
• Guide successful completion of ground programs and may function in a project leadership role meeting cost, schedule, and performance goals.

Work environment

This position requires regular in-person engagement, working on-site five days each normally scheduled week at the primary work location. Travel and local commute between company campuses and other possible non-company locations may be required. Work may be performed in an office, laboratory, production floor, cleanroom, outdoors, or remote research environment. Occasional access to production work centers may require use of protective equipment and gear. May access other facilities in various weather conditions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering or a related technical field from an accredited institution.
• Six or more years of related experience; each higher-level degree (Master’s or Ph.D.) may substitute for two years of experience.
• Current, active TS/SCI security clearance.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of software engineering, hardware engineering, integration, test engineering, quality engineering, and configuration/data management.
• Knowledge of systems engineering roles and functions, including operations concept development, requirements management, functional analysis, interface definition and control, synthesis, and verification and validation.
• Experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) tools and processes: SysML diagrams (Block Diagrams, Inner Block Diagrams, State Machines, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams) and UML diagrams (Class Diagrams, Sequence of Events Diagrams, Activity Diagrams).
• Ability to create and simulate system models to analyze system behavior and performance.
• Experience with requirements management tools such as Jama or DOORS.
• Experience developing SEMP, specifications, ICDs, architecture, use cases, and other ground CDRLs and artifacts.
• Knowledge of and support for various test milestones (Test Readiness Review, Factory/Site Acceptance Test), security milestones (Interim Authority to Test, Authority to Operate), and ground sell-off milestones (Ground Completion Review).

Preferred skills

• Experience in mission management, command & control, mission data processing, ground terminal and infrastructure domains.
• Experience with Risk Management Framework (RMF) and Information Assurance (IA) in developing ground systems.
• Experience with Agile software development methodologies.
• Knowledge of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) principles with security requirements as part of DevSecOps.
• Experience in cloud development environments.
• Experience with Atlassian tools such as Confluence and Jira.

Pay

Full-Time Salary Range: $118,095 – $200,762 (determined by business considerations, local market conditions, internal equity, and candidate qualifications).

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance; health savings accounts.
• 401(k) savings plan with company contributions.
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage; life and accident insurance.
• Employee assistance program and legal plan.
• Paid time off, paid holidays, paid parental leave, military leave, bereavement leave, and applicable federal/state sick leave.
• Company recognition program (monetary and non-monetary awards).
• Discounts on home, auto, and pet insurance.