Integrated Product Team (IPT) Lead

About the role

The position qualifies for enhanced benefits and supports the Nation's leading-edge IC and DoD space programs.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of multi-disciplined engineers and analysts in program-specific analyses, foreign threat capabilities and development and research
• Tasking, timelines, status, and deliverables for the IPT across the analysis, threat and phenomenology functions
• Maintain communications and schedule meetings with end-customer offices, coordinate information needs, product delivery timelines and status
• Provide status of IPT projects, tasks, and deliverables to program and immediate government customer management at periodic reviews
• Identify, remove, and/or escalate blockers to team tasks or deliverables
• Participating in intelligence or cross-team product production meetings as required
• Achieving detailed understanding of multiple satellite systems, designs, operations and classifications
• Identifying gaps and prioritizing recommendations to achieve program protection objectives
• Author, review, and coordinate documents to facilitate Government decision making
• Develop and maintain in-depth knowledge of U.S. national security space capabilities, foreign space capabilities, and counter-space threats
• Participate and represent the customer in various Government and contractor meetings and attend contractor programmatic and technical reviews (e.g. PMR, PDR, CDR, etc.) to provide technical recommendations and risk assessments
• Frequently interacting with program managers, SETAs, FFRDCs and external stakeholders
• Developing productive relationships with the Program Office, Prime, and Subcontract counterparts, functional IC or DoD counterparts, and other SMEs

Requirements

• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in engineering, Physics or Mathematics and 14 or more years (12 or more with a Masters, 9 or more with a PhD) of experience in engineering/scientific fields
• In-depth technical expertise in at least two of the following areas: orbital analysis, satellite communication systems, space surveillance technologies, radar systems, and/or optical systems
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience interacting with the intel community to include reading and applying intel assessments and coordinating with intel community experts
• Experience using STK or similar satellite mission analysis software
• Active TS/SCI Clearance with Special Access eligibility and consent to a Counterintelligence (CI) polygraph
• US Citizenship is required
• Demonstrated record of effective individual and group work behaviors, with abilities to proactively initiate and operate in dynamic and incompletely defined environments
• Prominent ability to lead cross-functional teams of scientists and engineers through adaptive leadership and high emotional intelligence
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with experience conveying technical concepts, results, and summaries to internal customers, external customers, and stakeholders of diverse technical backgrounds

Qualifications

• Masters or Doctorate Degree in Physics, Engineering, or Mathematics
• Experience in space system acquisition or space technology development
• Working knowledge of radar and/or optical technologies
• Familiarity with National Security Space architecture (IC and/or DoD)
• Experience using Systems Tool Kit (STK), MATLAB, Linux, Python or COAST/FIST
• Demonstrated proficiency with program-planning processes and tools (such as Jira, Confluence, MS Project)

Skills

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Benefits

• Enhanced benefits

Pay

Target salary range $200,001 - $240,000.

Schedule

Full-Time