Space Force - Traffic Modeling System Engineer for Missile Tracking - Top Secret

About the role

As a Traffic Modeling System Engineer for Missile Tracking designing Traffic Data Models for the US Space Force Space Development Agency (SDA) Ground, Management and Integration (GMI) program, you will be a key member of a cross-functional team responsible for developing and deploying state-of-the-art ground operational systems for the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA). You will be part of an elite team providing the evolution, expansion, integration, testing and maintenance of the ground entry points, operations centers, enterprise test and checkout capabilities and infrastructure management, including all development, systems engineering, integration, testing, maintenance, and site support.

Responsibilities

• Systems engineering that includes decomposing requirements into modeling of the traffic data flow from a satellite constellation to the ground network
• Pre-planned or ad-hoc scheduling and satellite services to track missiles
• Analysis of missile tracking data to validate the traffic model
• Identifies opportunities to apply AI for continuous improvement and innovation

Requirements

• Active/Current DoD Top Secret Clearance is required. U.S. citizenship is also required
• Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, or a related Science, Engineering, Technology or Mathematics field
• 8+ years of job-related experience, or a Master's degree plus 6 years of job-related experience

Preferred Skills

• Recent modeling of communication data, preferably using satellite constellations and ground networks
• Recent Satellite to Ground RF communication protocol experience, end to end packet prioritization and routing, or traffic modeling experience
• Agile experience

Bonus Skills

• Recent experience with missile tracking systems design and architecture, and sensor fusion techniques
• Recent experience designing logic, assessing and scheduling satellite services to track missiles
• Knowledge of cloud technologies and their application in system design and deployment
• Experience with image processing (collection, handling, storing, and analysis)

Pay

$92.98/hour

Schedule

This position can be a minimum of three days onsite or fully onsite in Scottsdale, AZ. While on-site, you will be a part of the SDA team located in Huntsville, Alabama; Scottsdale, Arizona; Grand Forks, North Dakota; Chantilly, Virginia.

Contract

12–24 months with possibility of going direct