Job Requirements
Colorado Springs, CO
Secret Polygraph Unspecified
Career Level not specified
$120,000 - $160,000
Job Description
Job Description
Ready for What's Next? At Kratos, we encourage an entrepreneurial spirit balanced with discipline. We work hard, and take care of our customers, employees, and families. Recognized as thought leaders in our industry, we are motivated by creating and delivering innovative solutions to our nation and global customers. This Lead System Engineering position is an exciting opportunity based in Colorado Springs, CO that encompasses dimensions of system engineering and assisting leadership with knowledge of systems development, engineering, and integration. The successful candidate, as part of our engineering team, will work with our management, product, and IR&D teams to help create strategic technical visions, build successful solutions for executing programs, and strengthen our market domination.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Experience and Skills
Preferred Skills/Experience
#LI-Onsite
The grade-based pay range for this job is listed below. Individual salaries within that range are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, and skills.
Competitive salary based on experience and education
Salary Range: $120,000 - $160,000
Kratos is valued for our ability to design and deliver leading edge, resilient solutions for aerospace communication, control, awareness and mission success across a continuum of offerings-from commercial to tailored custom solutions and integrated programs. Customers trust us to stay relevant and know we are in it for the long-haul. We bring both the capability and confidence that our customers value and depend on. And we always deliver.
This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date.
Job Benefits
Ready for What's Next? At Kratos, we encourage an entrepreneurial spirit balanced with discipline. We work hard, and take care of our customers, employees, and families. Recognized as thought leaders in our industry, we are motivated by creating and delivering innovative solutions to our nation and global customers. This Lead System Engineering position is an exciting opportunity based in Colorado Springs, CO that encompasses dimensions of system engineering and assisting leadership with knowledge of systems development, engineering, and integration. The successful candidate, as part of our engineering team, will work with our management, product, and IR&D teams to help create strategic technical visions, build successful solutions for executing programs, and strengthen our market domination.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Lead the System Engineering team to ensure all contractual requirements and deliverables are met.
- Chair/Host/Support program Configuration Control Boards (CCBs) and System Engineering IPTs
- (SEIPTs)
- Ensure timely and accurate CDRLs are submitted according to customer prescribed schedule
- Requirement's analysis
- System design
- System documentation updates
- Work closely with system developers, test, and on-site user support personnel to support system updates, analyze and resolve system issues, and ensure project objectives are met.
- Provide technical advice to our customers on architectures and potential solutions
- Develop and deliver effective customer presentations (support design reviews, status reports, kickoff meetings, test plans) demonstrating an ability to communicate comfortably at a system level
- Attend and support highly technical engineering team meetings
- Travel as necessary to attend conferences and customer meetings
Experience and Skills
- 5+ years engineering experience
- BS in SE, CS, EE, ME, or other engineering equivalent
- Active Secret Clearance with that ability to obtain a TS/Sci
- Support programs through SRR, PDR, CDR or equivalent design reviews
- Execute effective Risk Management practices
- Leverage modern IT infrastructure capabilities to include virtualization, cloud deployment and containerization
- Collaborate proactively with multiple groups of developers, engineers, and testers
- Communicate technical concepts clearly and confidently in both oral and written formats for internal teams, customer, and users
- Apply working knowledge of space systems, including ground systems, satellite command and control, RF systems, and system development processes
- Utilize DOORS (desirable)
Preferred Skills/Experience
- Specify any preferred skill sets that are "nice-to-have" but not minimum requirements (as necessary):
- Apply experience with satellite ground systems
- Utilize knowledge of the SCN
- Experience with SATCOM mission planning
- Implement and execute SecDevOps processes and related Agile practices
- Security+ certification is not required but is beneficial to the position
#LI-Onsite
The grade-based pay range for this job is listed below. Individual salaries within that range are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, and skills.
Competitive salary based on experience and education
Salary Range: $120,000 - $160,000
Kratos is valued for our ability to design and deliver leading edge, resilient solutions for aerospace communication, control, awareness and mission success across a continuum of offerings-from commercial to tailored custom solutions and integrated programs. Customers trust us to stay relevant and know we are in it for the long-haul. We bring both the capability and confidence that our customers value and depend on. And we always deliver.
This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date.
Job Benefits
- Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance Coverage
- Life/ADD & Short/Long Term Disability Insurance
- 401(k) Savings Plan
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
- Paid Time-Off (PTO)
- Holidays
- Education Reimbursement
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