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Top Secret/SCI
Unspecified
Polygraph
IT - Software
Chantilly, VA (On-Site/Office)
Overview
We are seeking a Space Systems Engineer located in Chantilly, VA. The successful applicant will work to provide technical solutions to a wide range of complex and technically challenging work.
What will you do?
Key duties/responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
• Coordinate readiness reviews and evaluate acquisition milestone design documentation for adequacy, accuracy and completeness, and identify cost, schedule and technical risks/opportunities, provide mitigation strategies through formal and informal comments, and determine readiness to proceed to the next program phase.
• Manage requirements processes to include review, evaluation, recommendation to approve/disapprove of verification products for Segment requirements and define verification methods in concert with SPO Divisions.
• Coordinate with mission users, stakeholders, and NRO Enterprise representatives to understand user needs and higher-level allocated requirements
• Provide the SPO interface to adjunct payload government program offices and their industry partners.
• Support the documentation and maintenance of the collection system requirements baseline in automated tools such as DOORS.
• Lead Segment verification activities; assess adequacy of developer verification data and provide recommendations to the GPOC for approval or disapproval with clear commentary demonstrating the logic for the recommendations.
• Review, document and trace functional and interface requirements for the collection system, and coordinate with other engineers, FFRDC and developer personnel to resolve issues.
• Identify areas of risk to mission closure across collection, mission management, and mission processing
• Support requirements activities across the NRO enterprise and with the development contractors.
• Based on user needs and higher level allocated Enterprise requirements, derive and flow down the error budgets and other requirements to System and Segment specifications.
• Coordinate proposed requirements changes across all SPO organizations and with mission analysis and acquisition teams to ensure completeness of review across the acquisition.
• Identify and assess segment-level impacts of new capabilities, including across specification, internal and external interfaces, and facilitate integration into the current program baseline
• Support customer in CONOP development
• Support initialization and on-orbit calibration and validation activities
• Support ground site integration and test activities
• Advise and mentor customer personnel regarding Segment architecture, specification, and verification and validation
• Attend Segment level design reviews and program management reviews to assess design maturity, requirements compliance and to provide informed technical recommendations to the customer.
• Review verification evidence and test reports to support space vehicle level requirement verification and Pre-Ship Review (PSR) events.
• Review acquisition milestone design documentation for adequacy, accuracy and completeness, and identify cost, schedule and technical risks/opportunities, and provide mitigation strategies through formal and informal comments.
• Support technical and programmatic reviews and meetings, as required.
Do you have what it takes?
We are seeking a Space Systems Engineer located in Chantilly, VA. The successful applicant will work to provide technical solutions to a wide range of complex and technically challenging work.
What will you do?
Key duties/responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
• Coordinate readiness reviews and evaluate acquisition milestone design documentation for adequacy, accuracy and completeness, and identify cost, schedule and technical risks/opportunities, provide mitigation strategies through formal and informal comments, and determine readiness to proceed to the next program phase.
• Manage requirements processes to include review, evaluation, recommendation to approve/disapprove of verification products for Segment requirements and define verification methods in concert with SPO Divisions.
• Coordinate with mission users, stakeholders, and NRO Enterprise representatives to understand user needs and higher-level allocated requirements
• Provide the SPO interface to adjunct payload government program offices and their industry partners.
• Support the documentation and maintenance of the collection system requirements baseline in automated tools such as DOORS.
• Lead Segment verification activities; assess adequacy of developer verification data and provide recommendations to the GPOC for approval or disapproval with clear commentary demonstrating the logic for the recommendations.
• Review, document and trace functional and interface requirements for the collection system, and coordinate with other engineers, FFRDC and developer personnel to resolve issues.
• Identify areas of risk to mission closure across collection, mission management, and mission processing
• Support requirements activities across the NRO enterprise and with the development contractors.
• Based on user needs and higher level allocated Enterprise requirements, derive and flow down the error budgets and other requirements to System and Segment specifications.
• Coordinate proposed requirements changes across all SPO organizations and with mission analysis and acquisition teams to ensure completeness of review across the acquisition.
• Identify and assess segment-level impacts of new capabilities, including across specification, internal and external interfaces, and facilitate integration into the current program baseline
• Support customer in CONOP development
• Support initialization and on-orbit calibration and validation activities
• Support ground site integration and test activities
• Advise and mentor customer personnel regarding Segment architecture, specification, and verification and validation
• Attend Segment level design reviews and program management reviews to assess design maturity, requirements compliance and to provide informed technical recommendations to the customer.
• Review verification evidence and test reports to support space vehicle level requirement verification and Pre-Ship Review (PSR) events.
• Review acquisition milestone design documentation for adequacy, accuracy and completeness, and identify cost, schedule and technical risks/opportunities, and provide mitigation strategies through formal and informal comments.
• Support technical and programmatic reviews and meetings, as required.
Do you have what it takes?
- Required Attributes:
- Bachelor's degree in STEM (science, technical, engineering, math) or related discipline with 10-20 years of relevant experience
- TS/SCI with poly
- Understanding of DOD/IC satellite systems and architectures
- Excellent interpersonal, leadership, team building, and problem-solving skills with a demonstrated ability to be independent and effective in a government/contractor team environment
- Experience in DOD/IC acquisition and program management processes
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Demonstrated sustained superior performance
- Available to travel domestically
Desired Attributes:- Advanced degree in STEM (science, technical, engineering, math) or related discipline with emphasis on MBSE
- Prior Program Office experience
- Previous experience developing technical specifications for space systems
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