Lead Systems Engineer

About the role

You are confident in your technical and leadership capabilities, able to set a technical vision and lead a team to execute against it, willing to continue learning new technologies as mission needs evolve, and desire to work on-site in Colorado Springs, CO, side-by-side with our teammates and customers helping to oversee small, agile teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct support to the USSF Materiel Leader responsible for these acquisitions.
• Lead analyses and trades to help inform government architectural and financial decisions.
• Create and brief clear and comprehensible summaries of your work and course-of-action assessments to O-6+ level leadership.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to acquisitions through all phases of the life cycle from initial concept development, mission engineering, and source selection through development and transition to operations and sustainment.
• Lead the development and maintenance of a complete technical baseline (requirements, ICDs, etc.) that will serve as the foundation of these acquisitions and integration between systems.
• Help lead a team of engineers to provide the support described above.
• Mentor the team of engineers to help them grow in their careers while providing optimal support to the customer.

Requirements

• Experience in design, development, analysis, or acquisition of space systems.
• Experience in multiple space operations and space control-related fields, including but not limited to orbit dynamics, rendezvous and proximity operations, navigation, sensor employment, communications, and command and control.
• Demonstrated system engineering skills.
• Bachelor of Science in Aerospace, Mechanical or Electrical engineering, math, and/or physics.
• US Citizenship.
• Active TS and SCI eligible.
• Willing to consent to a Counter-Intelligence polygraph examination.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will have 5 to 10 years of experience.