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