Engineer

Job Description

This position is for an early-career system engineer who can work in, and grow to lead, a multi-disciplinary team to develop, maintain, verify and communicate the architecture and requirements baseline for a mission that includes Segment, Element (payload, spacecraft bus, and ground) and/or Subsystems. You will work within your program teams alongside specialty engineers through the program life cycle to develop, and manage requirements for, different levels for various complex, high precision, and high-reliability applications. You’ll work alongside our teams of design engineers, AI&T engineers, and senior leadership as your program moves through AI&T and milestone gate reviews to ensure our programs meet the customer needs in technical requirements, schedule, and cost.

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:

• Provide systems engineering support/leadership of technical teams in the development, verification, delivery, and operations of Missions, Segments, Elements, and Subsystems.
• Support the proper allocation, traceability, and verification of requirements at all levels through the lifecycle of the program.
• Interact with multiple subject matter experts across subsystems and IPTs to develop the required allocation analysis and verification artifacts.
• Interface with and support the program’s Chief System Engineer, Chief Engineer, Program Management team, and customers.
• Support the development of expectations, preparations, and delivery for major gate reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR, PSR, etc.).
• Coordinate requirements verification with I&T activities.
• Coordinate with and assist other engineering disciplines and IPTs as assigned.
• Learn and Use Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) for the development of system architecture, requirements traceability, and interface management.
• Mentor other system engineers assigned to the team.
• Support the program Risk & Opportunity Management and ERB processes.
• Prepare and give presentations to peers, management, and customers.
• Maintain a regular and predictable work schedule.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships within the department, the Strategic Business Units, Strategic Capabilities Units and the Company. Interact appropriately with others in order to maintain a positive and productive work environment.