Systems Engineer - GEOINT

GEOINT Flight Operations System Engineer to work on an exciting, fast-paced program.  This position provides subject matter expertise to customers in launch and initialization, flight operations, and CONOPs development.

       Required Education/Experience

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) or relevant field
  • At least 9 years technical experience

Primary Responsibilities

  • Provide subject matter expertise of GEOINT satellite (bus and payload) development lifecycle, constellation; integration, transition to operations
  • Experience in operational readiness, rehearsals, and system testing
  • Perform technical analyses; document, and present findings
  • Provide technical leadership for the integration of requirements, design, and technology
  • Analyze concepts of operations, user requirements, and high-level systems architectures to develop system requirements
  • Collaborate with SETA team members, development contractors, and customer forums
  • Effectively communicate and interface with engineers from various contractors and government organizations; prepare and present briefings to customer on technical topics when requested
  • Understand NRO organization and Directorates and Offices
  • Understand and operate in a dynamic, multi-organizational environment
  • Understand and utilize multiple classifications of information and work with organization at the classified and unclassified level

Required Qualifications

  • Top Secret/SCI clearance with CI Poly
  • Knowledge of GEOINT satellite constellation, and satellite components (bus and payload)
  • Experience in operational readiness, rehearsals, and system testing
  • Program lifecycle experience from concept development and design to deployment and operational maintenance
  • Experience with requirements development, interface control documentation, technical specification review, architecture and CONOPS development
  • Experience in mission operations environment – ops tempo, performance characterization, utility analysis, system calibrations
  • Polished communicator with impeccable interpersonal skills; technical topics readily understood by all stakeholders, readily generates consensus or path forward on challenging topics.  Strong documentation skills, a superior technical writer.
  • Proactively performs all tasks with little/no oversight or supervision

Excellent data management skills and use of appropriate tools, such as MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, etc