Ground Segment Integration Engineer

Location(s): Remote; Northern Virginia; Denver Metro Area; Colorado Springs, CO. Occasional travel to Chantilly, VA required. Active TS/SCI security clearance required.

About the role

Trusted Space is seeking a Ground Segment Integration Engineer to join our team and support the Space Development Agency (SDA) Tranche 3 Program Integration (T3PI) effort.

Responsibilities

• Act as Program Integrator Liaison to the Ground Segment development contractor.
• Monitor key interface development, testing, and software deployment and advise the T3PI team and Government Systems Engineering Team on progress.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders on ICDs, interface maturation, and inclusion of new interfaces in support of mission closure.
• Identify and assess emerging technical and programmatic risks related to the ground systems and collaborate with system contractor team(s) to develop and evaluate mitigation strategies.
• Support verification, validation, and deployment of ground solutions to operations.
• Support readiness reviews and major program reviews to evaluate ground system readiness.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or information technology and 14 years of relevant experience, or a Master’s degree and 12 years of relevant experience in development and operation of classified satellite ground systems specifically related to mission planning, management, command and control, data processing, and data dissemination.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and collaborative skills with a demonstrated ability to be effective in a government/contractor team environment.
• Ability to work in a dynamic environment and effectively interact with numerous DOD military/civilian personnel and with industry partners.
• Ability to facilitate technical discussions with Subject Matter Experts.
• Experienced with fast-paced, space or ground system programs.
• Experience with Cloud-based ground systems deployed in Amazon Commercial Cloud Services (C2S) such as the Secret Commercial Cloud Services (SC2S).
• Broad technical experience related to cloud operations, DevSecOps, CI/CD, PKI, networks, and interfaces.
• Experience in Agile methods for program management or software development.

Skills

• Experience developing and testing software with heavy utilization of REST and ESB, including testing tools such as SoapUI, Fortify, SSH, LoadRunner, Swagger, Parasoft, Fiddler, etc.
• Experience with space-sector technologies and protocols used for COMSEC, time sync, and communicating with antenna services.

Pay

The salary range for this role is $170,000 - $200,000.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision plans.
• Life and accidental death & dismemberment insurance.
• 401(k) plan.
• Paid holidays and generous paid time off.
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance.
• Other benefits to promote health, wellness, and a positive work-life balance.

About Trusted Space

Trusted Space is the premier provider of trusted autonomy and battlespace management software solutions enabling machine speed sensing, sense making, decision making, and acting for critical space and intelligence missions. Our portfolio includes trusted autonomy software products, real-time image processing capabilities, advanced space mission engineering services, and space operations & training solutions. We empower government and commercial customers to achieve mission superiority in space reconnaissance & surveillance, dynamic space operations, space-based ISR, and ground/command & control (C2) systems.