Basic Qualifications :
Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, or a related Science, Engineering or Mathematics field. Also requires 8+ years of job-related experience, or a Master’s degree plus 6 years of job-related experience. Agile experience preferred.
CLEARANCE REQUIREMENTS: Department of Defense TS/SCI security clearance is preferred at time of hire. Candidates must be able to obtain a Secret clearance within a reasonable amount of time from date of hire. Applicants selected will be subject to a U.S. Government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Due to the nature of work performed within our facilities, U.S. citizenship is required.
Responsibilities for this Position:

We encourage you to apply if you have any of these preferred skills or experiences:

• Ground system design or scheduling knowledge
• Tracking mission design knowledge
• Satellite communications knowledge
• Ground to Satellite communication knowledge
• System/Software design for cloud-based microservice architectur

ROLE AND POSITION OBJECTIVES:

As a Systems Engineer for the SDA GMI program, you’ll be a member of a cross-functional team responsible for developing and deploying the state-of-the-art ground operational system.

We encourage you to apply if you have any of these preferred skills or experiences:

• Ground system design or scheduling knowledge
• Tracking mission design knowledge
• Satellite communications knowledge
• Ground to Satellite communication knowledge
• System/Software design for cloud-based microservice architecture

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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Collaborate with customers, mission partners, and other key stakeholders to translate requirements into robust system designs within a fast-moving timeline.
• Decomposition of end-to-end system requirements into architecture, design, interfaces, and test cases
• Coordination with developers and integration and test teams to ensure component development meet system mission needs.