Associate or Mid-level Ground Systems Engineer for MILSATCOM Program

Description

The company Space & Mission Systems MILSATCOM Program is hiring an Associate or Mid-level Ground Systems Engineer to help build the next generation of satellite ground systems. The role is based in El Segundo, CA or Seal Beach, CA.

You will work across several phases of ground system development, including design trade studies and building and integrating the Command & Control (C2) software system in an agile setting. The team is small and collaborative, with mentoring and hands-on work and room to grow into technical or management roles over time. You will be trained in the company and ground processes and procedures.

Candidates with systems engineering skills are preferred, though those willing to learn are welcome. The team handles ground system verification, test, and support of the customer's delivery system, including writing and running test plans, procedures, and reports for everything from single components to larger functional systems.

Optional skills include ground system integration, test and formal qualification, requirement decomposition and generation, Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), and an understanding of requirement verification and test processes. Strong written and oral communication and teamwork are also valued.

Responsibilities

• Take an interdisciplinary, collaborative approach to planning, designing, developing, and verifying balanced system of systems and system solutions across the lifecycle.
• Assess customer and operational needs to define system performance requirements, bring technical parameters together, and ensure all physical, functional, and program interfaces are compatible.
• Analyse system of systems and system architecture to optimise the overall design.
• Assess affordability, safety, reliability, maintainability, testability, human systems integration, survivability, vulnerability, susceptibility, security, regulatory and certification needs, product assurance, and other quality factors to reach a preferred configuration that supports mission success.
• Help plan, organise, implement, and monitor requirements management, tools, risk and issue management, opportunity management, and technology readiness assessment processes.
• You will work 100% onsite at one of the listed locations.

Requirements

• An active U.S. Secret security clearance is required, with U.S. citizenship. A clearance active within the past 24 months counts as active.
• A Bachelor of Science from an accredited program in engineering, engineering technology (including manufacturing engineering technology), chemistry, physics, mathematics, data science, or computer science.
• 2+ years of related work experience, or an equivalent mix of technical education and experience.
• Experience with system integration, testing, or troubleshooting.
• Optional: 5+ years of related work experience, or an equivalent mix of education and experience.
• Optional: 1+ years leading or managing an engineering project or team.
• Optional: experience with systems design and architecture.
• Optional: experience creating and documenting test plans and procedures, running tests, analysing results, and writing test reports.
• Optional: experience in ground system systems engineering, covering requirements analysis, design, and operation.
• Optional: experience developing Command and Control (C2), Mission Management, and Mission Planning software for ground systems.
• Optional: experience with software coding, scripting, and troubleshooting.
• Optional: experience with JIRA and Confluence.
• Optional: experience working with government customers.
• Optional: experience developing, generating, and running system test plans, procedures, and reports.
• Optional: experience working on a team of systems engineers using a scaled agile process.
• Optional: at least 3 years of experience in system requirements generation, verification, and system integration and test (I&T).
• Optional: strength in communication, adaptability, decision making, customer focus, integrated systems, engineering analysis, and requirements and traceability.
• Optional: Level 2 is 2+ years of related work experience, or an equivalent mix of technical education and experience.
• Optional: Level 3 is 5+ years of related work experience, or an equivalent mix of technical education and experience.
• You must meet U.S. export control requirements, which means being a "U.S. Person" as defined in 22 C.F.R. §120.62: a U.S. citizen, U.S. national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee.

Conditions

The company will not sponsor applicants for employment visa status.

This position is not contingent upon program award.

This is not a safety sensitive position.

Successful candidates must pass the company's Conflict of Interest (COI) assessment.

The company is a drug free workplace. Post-offer applicants and employees may be tested for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP, and alcohol when criteria are met under company policy.

Relocation is offered based on candidate eligibility. Basic relocation is offered to eligible internal candidates.

The shift is Shift 1 in the United States of America.

Language requirements: not applicable. Education: Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent.

Pay is based on candidate experience and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

Benefits

• Total Rewards includes competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.
• Eligible employees may enrol in benefit programs, generally including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance, and paid and unpaid time away from work.
• Available programs vary by factors such as location, hire date, and collective bargaining agreements.