POSITION: Senior Space Systems Engineer
LOCATION: Huntsville, AL
REQUIRED SECURITY CLEARANCE: Active TS with SCI eligibility; willing to take CI polygraph
POSITION TYPE/STANDARD WORK HOURS: Full time, 40 hours

WHO WE ARE:

BTAS is a woman-owned small business founded in 1995, located near Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Beavercreek, OH. We have earned national and regional awards in the Department of Defense for our proven IT, Engineering, and Program Management capabilities.
We are committed to working with exceptional quality and professionalism to deliver excellence to our customers, while providing our employees with a stimulating and satisfying work environment as we collaborate with teaming partners to achieve common goals.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

Must be an SME Recognized Industry Leader. Requires MS degree and more than 10 years’ relevant experience/status, as follows:

• Expert in classified space control space, ground, and C2 systems (concepts, development, build, and test)
• Expert in space control-related technologies, including but not limited to, electromagnetic spectrum, signal processing, comms
• Expert in developing and managing technical requirements and space system acquisition efforts
• Highly knowledgeable in electronic attack technologies and system design implementation
• Highly knowledgeable in modeling and sim, with a demonstrated ability to develop models and assess technical requirements
• Highly knowledgeable in classified space control systems engineering processes and procedures, including but not limited to requirements development, configuration control, and government Deficiency Review (DR) board establishment, execution, and DR disposition and management.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide space acquisitions, engineering, operations, and technical advice and assistance for various projects and programs to support any stage of the acquisition life cycle.
• Support program acquisition efforts for advanced technology, future concept development, and integration activities.
• Advise and assist the government on cost, schedule, and performance matters.
• Revise or provide draft Joint Capabilities Integrated Development System (JCIDS) and acquisition documentation to the applicable government program manager.
• Support the presentation of products to internal and external customers.
• Provide a draft SME-level technical and/or programmatic status report of any individual program or of the portfolio, as requested by the government.
• Identify areas of improvement in acquisition processes and provide actionable recommendations for risk reduction.
• Assist in building and maintaining a government risk program, including risk identification, process definition, and detailed technical risk mitigation plans.
• Maintain awareness of current program schedule, monitor acquisition implementation, report requirement shortfalls, and provide a program assessment based on identified risks.
• Advise the government program manager on technical engagements such as technical interchange meetings, design reviews, and program conferences.
• Provide technical and operational insight to support mission protection, operations, and mission data assessments.
• Recommend solutions for technical anomalies and evaluate impact analysis, audits, studies, compliance inspections, and readiness reviews.
• Provide engineering and technical expertise to support ongoing and new/advanced Command and Control (C2) efforts.
• Establish a liaison between the Space C2 and Enterprise Ground Services (EGS) program offices and the SSC/SZ-BC classified program offices.
• Focus on integrated C2 solutions with Space C2 and EGS spiral increment efforts for seamless integration of the classified portfolio.
• Advise and assist the government on test and operations including advisory support on test documents, planning, events, requirements, and data for Developmental and Operational Testing.
• Coordinate system-level test integration and activities as appropriate.
• Provide analytical and operational engineering support to current and future developmental and operational units.
• Support operational mission planning, mission protection, and anomaly engineering.
• Provide support for data and signal collection, processing, storage, archiving, analysis, and lessons learned to support test, ongoing operations, and future concept developments.
• Assist with post-mission analysis and report the results of the plan versus execution.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

This position does not supervise the work of others.

OTHER DUTIES:

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and/or activities may change at any time with or without notice.