Satellite Lead Mission Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the Government Program Office’s technical focal point for system and mission-level development through Assembly, Integration and Test (AI&T).
• Partner with the Government and SETA Program Managers for the mission to advise on mission performance, schedule, and costs.
• Liaise with SETA factory representatives located in Developer factories to track progress and mitigate associated risks.
• Partner with Developer engineers and technicians to establish a trusted relationship of sharing data and win-win ideas that benefit the program.
• Liaise with SETA Subject Matter Experts (SME) to analyze integration activities and test results.
• Proactively report risks and issues that could result in reduced mission performance, requirement verification shortfalls, or schedule slips impacting launch schedules.
• Track and report system/mission development progress in weekly Mission-level, Enterprise-level, and System-level meetings held by the Government Program Office.

Qualifications

• Possess Active TS/SCI clearance.
• 5+ years of expertise working as a senior system engineer with leadership roles on a large and complex satellite program.
• Expert-level system engineering experience, particularly in spacecraft integration, test, check-out and launch preparation.
• Excellent organizational skills capable of orchestrating technical exchanges with system engineers distributed across multiple locations and time zones to proactively escalate technical status information to decision-makers.
• A Bachelor's degree in a relevant field with 14 years of experience, or a Master's degree with 12 years of experience.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience supporting or servicing as a Program Manager for a satellite subsystem or unit responsible for mitigating schedule risks.
• Experience in a Satellite AI&T lead technical role at the system, subsystem, or unit level.

Pay

Target salary range $160,001 - $200,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.