Mission Engineering Analyst

MTSI is seeking a Mission Engineering & Advanced Space Projects Analyst to support Advanced Space Project acquisition planning and development, hosted payload acquisition activities, and mission engineering.

Responsibilities

• Provide acquisition support for Advanced Space Project acquisition planning and development, including generating recommendations for acquisition strategies, procurement plans, and source-selection documentation.
• Develop and maintain acquisition artifacts such as project baselines, requirements traceability plans, memorandums of agreement, project management plans, and resource/policy implementation plans.
• Integrate analytical methods to evaluate program concepts, mission strategies, and system performance to inform cost, schedule, budget, and technical trade decisions.
• Lead development of architectures for modeling, simulation, and data tools, ensuring alignment with acquisition objectives, operational needs, and prototype mission use cases.
• Identify risks across operations, resources, networks, architectures, and mission areas to support strategic decision-making regarding priorities, funding, requirements, and resourcing.
• Support hosted payload acquisition planning, including maintaining integrated views of cost, schedule, budget, and technical performance relevant to payload hosting agreements.
• Serve as a key interface between the program office and functional areas including contracting, technical engineering teams, cost/schedule analysts, and other program stakeholders.
• Apply skills such as program management, contracting knowledge, technical analysis, price analysis, and budget/cost management to ensure acquisition cohesion and program execution health.
• Lead project teams including Aerospace personnel, government customers, and contractors across concurrent studies, eliciting needs, requirements, constraints, and engineering inputs.
• Mentor early-career and experienced mission engineers, guiding development of mission engineering capabilities to meet emerging customer demands.
• Oversee development of technical architecture artifacts, requirements verification materials, and strategic communication products for senior-level program decision forums.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or other STEM discipline.
• 6+ years experience in space, intelligence, or defense mission areas.
• Experience with project planning, team leadership, and multi-organization collaboration.
• Experience preparing and presenting strategic decision-making products, technical architecture documentation, and engineering review artifacts.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects, lead cross-functional teams, and coordinate acquisition and technical activities across stakeholders.
• Willingness to travel.
• Active TS/SCI clearance (U.S. citizenship required).

Pay

The pay range for this position in California is $135,000/year to $170,000/year; however, base pay offered may vary depending on established government contract wages, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience, and other factors.

Benefits

MTSI offers a full range of medical, financial, and other benefits, dependent on the position offered.