Mission Integration Engineer

About the role

The successful MSE&Integration Engineer will support the Mission Integration efforts supporting a new government customer. The Engineer will assess the capabilities planned for the satellite vehicle Tracking and Transport segments, and how these interact with the ground architecture. The Ground Segment MSE&I team will support development of an implementation plan to ensure compatibility and interoperability of the combined system.

Responsibilities

• Support efforts to perform System-level requirements development, requirements flow-down, interface design, integration, and verification.
• Work with the Ground Segment, mission partners and Space Vehicle vendors to develop solutions incorporating the requirements of space vehicle satellite segments and externals such as: custody algorithm hosting, encapsulation, payload planning, scheduling, and tasking.
• Determine where gaps exist and perform trades to determine options.
• Work with stakeholders (Segments, Users, Partners) to define operational details, lower-level use cases, requirements, interfaces, and mission threads.
• Evaluate the demonstrations, simulations, and testing required to demonstrate mission capability and document the interfaces, internal and external operations and resources required to successfully accomplish them.
• Provide Ground equity input for the development of a System Concept of Operations (CONOPS)
• Provide input to Systems Architects to develop architectural and technical schematics showing interactions (e.g., operational functions, data, physical connections, and timing) among the segments and their various elements.
• Support Risk reduction activities and end-to-end demonstration plans coordinated with the Transport Segment and elements
• Provide data to support information mapping mission capabilities to System and Segment requirements and verification activities.
• Support development of Mission Operation & Launch, Orbital adjustment, Calibrations, Fault Isolation & Anomaly handling, and Early Operations planning
• Support development of required Interface Control Documents (ICDs) & implementation of external WAN/internal LAN connections, to include optical networks & cloud environments.

Requirements

• Active TS/SCI Security Clearance
• At least 10 years of experience leading a small team of engineers integrating Space Vehicles into a ground architecture (Mission Planning and Management and C2).
• Experience required supporting similar Space Domain architectures
• Requirements management experience & experience writing system level requirements, allocating requirements to segments, performing trace assessment of implementation-level requirements to system requirements, secure networks crypto requirements, and hands-on experience planning/executing test, demo’s, verification & validation activities.
• Space systems experience with specific experience supporting ground systems integration, space-ground architectures, antenna networks, & experience with Mission Management, Constellation Management, and/or Network Management software

Qualifications

• Ability to travel as needed to Government sites, Ground sites and development contractor locations.