Ground Systems Engineer

Job Description

We are looking to expand our team with a talented and energetic ground system engineer in support of operation of space vehicles and ground systems for commercial, DoW, and NASA customers. This position consists of working on a tightly integrated team in a fast-paced Agile environment to deliver continuous innovation to our customers.

The Ground Systems Engineer is in support of design, requirements, analysis, integration, and test of satellite ground systems for DoW customer.

The Engineering, Science and Analysis (ESA) Strategic Capabilities Unit comprises the technical talent and organizational leadership that enables the successful delivery of high-impact discriminating technologies for our customers’ missions. Our collaborative, cross-functional teams are committed to innovation, integrity, continual learning and strong execution.

What You’ll Do:

• Support design, development, integration and testing of an enterprise ground system.
• Apply technical expertise, and knowledge of ground systems.
• Fully competent in core systems engineering skills, contribute to effective producibility of designs, and to cost, budget, and schedule constraints over program lifecycle.
• Work is performed with limited direction. Completed work is reviewed from a relatively long-term perspective, for desired results.
• Develop technical solutions to complex problems which require the regular use of ingenuity and creativity.
• Interface effectively with people at all levels and from different areas, seek out responsibilities and opportunities to contribute, regularly meet with customers, provide leadership to groups and teams and guidance to less experienced employees.
• Support the development of ground segment system engineering architecture/design.
• Perform requirements decomposition, use case development, and trace artifacts to architecture constructs.
• Support requirements decomposition activities which includes the establishment of verification attributes (Verification Test method, level, approach, success criteria, and Test Requirements).
• Oversee and guide the management of ground segment requirements – allocation, verification, and validation.
• Support Interface definition development and documentation in the form of ICD.
• Analyze and implement key program interface documents by tracing to ground requirements and design.
• Support trade studies, performance analyses, risk and opportunity assessments.
• Prepare and give presentations to peers/management/customers.
• Support program gates as defined by customer, such as the System Requirements Review (SRR), Preliminary Design Review (PDR) and Critical Design Review (CDR).