Mission Integration Engineer, Mission Systems (Starshield)

Responsibilities

• Serve as the customer interface at meetings, tests, and reviews to develop operations plans, design missions, and participate in real world operations.
• Ensure contract deliverables are completed on-time and distill customer requirements into actionable development objectives.
• Work with internal and external stakeholders to drive development. Collaborate with subsystem representatives across team boundaries to consider all necessary trades and ensure end-to-end mission success.
• Support all phases of the program from development, initial proposal, through successful test, flight, and on-orbit commissioning. This will include educating the customer on our designs and methodologies.
• Own ground segment architecture design.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in a engineering or science discipline.
• 1+ years of software engineering or electrical engineering, working hands-on with hardware or software technical projects.

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Familiarity with USG intelligence processes and systems.
• Experience integrating with genAI and traditional machine learning techniques expectations and skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work under pressure and deliver reliable and expeditious results across multiple parallel priorities.
• Highly detail oriented, hardworking, and professional with excellent written and verbal technical communication skills.
• Spacecraft mission design, development, integration, and/or test experience.
• Strong penchant for innovation in process improvement and system design.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS

• This position requires successfully obtaining and maintaining a Top Secret Security Clearance as a condition of employment.
• Must be available to work extended hours and/or weekends as needed to support critical milestones or operations shifts.
• Able to pass Air Force background checks for Cape Canaveral and Vandenberg.