Mission Analysis Engineer (Senior) - Millennium Space Systems

About the role

The Mission Analysis Engineering team at Millennium Space Systems focuses on designing and developing Concepts of Operations (CONOPS) and Design Reference Missions (DRMs) from key customer requirements, modeling and simulating satellites, constellations, and system-of-systems, and designing and integrating mission data processing algorithms.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain simulations for large satellite constellations to assess effectiveness against mission requirements
• Own the Electro-Optical/Infrared (EO/IR) image processing algorithms chain, from photon to Warfighter
• Create models for space vehicle payloads to use in system trades and performance predictions
• Develop novel algorithms, models, and data processing schemes for MW/MT, RPO, and SDA systems
• Architect the Concepts of Operation (CONOPS)/Design Reference Mission (DRM) and their associated simulations
• Collaborate with software and firmware teams to develop platforms for simulation deployment (eg. software/hardware-in-the-loop)

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and 9 or more years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of technical education and experience
• 3 or more years' experience in modeling and simulation of complex aerospace systems using common tools such as Matlab/Simulink, Python, or C++

Qualifications

• Basic Qualifications: Bachelor's degree and 9 or more years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of technical education and experience
• Preferred Qualifications: 14 or more years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of technical education and experience, 7 or more years’ experience in satellite design and/or operation, experience with EO/IR optical systems analysis and image processing algorithms, experience with government furnished image models like ASSET, PRA Toolkit, or AFSIM, experience with orbital mechanics and kinematic state estimation, experience with satellite space-to-space communication networks, experience with RPO or NMC orbits and associated maneuver planning, technical leadership experience, including requirements V&V, delegation and management of technical tasks, responsible engineering authority (REA) experience, cost account management (CAM) experience

Skills

• Ability to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance

Benefits

• Not applicable

Pay

• Level 4: $150,750 - $225,000
• Level 5: $180,500 - $269,000

Schedule

• Shift 1 (United States of America)