Spacecraft Software Systems Engineer II - Blue Ring (Top Secret / Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) Clearance Required)

About the role

The role is part of the In-Space Systems business unit, focusing on space infrastructure and increasing mobility on-orbit. You will work with the Blue Ring Flight and Ground Software Teams to define requirements across multiple programs, customers, and missions.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the Blue Ring Flight and Ground Software Teams to define requirements across multiple programs, customers and missions
• Analyze mission requirements for multiple mission types and ensure accurate flow-down and traceability to software elements in the system architecture
• Support the derivation and allocation of requirements to lower levels of the system architecture to optimize the Blue Ring SW architecture
• Generate MBSE artifacts such as space vehicle States and Modes definitions, Operational Constraints, activity diagrams, sequence diagrams, and behavior diagrams for flight software and ground system engineering efforts and interface design
• Perform as a subject matter expert on spacecraft and ground system capabilities and constraints to support the definition of multiple candidate architectures for software interfaces to meet evolving customer needs for a growing set of mission types with a product line of spacecraft in development

Requirements

• Minimum of a B.S. degree in engineering or equivalent technical field
• 3+ years of related experience in software engineering/software development, systems engineering, space-to-ground software design and/or interface definition
• Prior experience developing or working with FSW development teams to implement satellite operational software
• Familiarity with spacecraft operations, command & control, and/or spacecraft communications uplink and downlink technologies
• Familiarity with, or experience in, Model-Based Systems Engineering, such as System Models and/or System Architecture diagrams
• Understanding of the Systems Engineering lifecycle and the “Systems Engineering V”
• Proven problem-solving skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Qualifications

• Active US Government Top Secret / Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) Clearance
• Spacecraft command & control software experience
• Software or scripting language experience
• Experience with MBSE/System Modeling tools such as Cameo Systems Modeler, Enterprise Architect, MagicDraw, or Rhapsody
• Familiarity with System Architecture frameworks such as the Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DODAF), Unified Architecture Framework (UAF), or NASA Space Mission Architecture Framework (SMAF)
• Spacecraft to ground-system interface familiarity
• Experience with spacecraft & ground system interface test requirements and use of Engineering Development Units (EDUs) for Unit and Integration testing
• Experience across the product life cycle (pre-conceptual design through operational support)
• Knowledge of collaboration tools such as Confluence and JIRA
• Experience with system requirements elicitation, derivation and allocation
• Knowledge of formal risk and opportunity management processes
• Master’s degree in Systems Engineering, Systems Architecture or a related discipline