Payload Engineer​/Mission Planner - Aurora,

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We will be the first to identify and solve the Intelligence and Defense Communities’ toughest engineering and operational problems by establishing a true partnership with our Customers. Despite our advanced degrees and heavy R&D focus, it is our hands‑on experience and scars from the field that will enable us to create very practical and reliable solutions.

Our purpose at ICR is to establish a company where the best minds in their career field want to work. Our Customer’s problems will become our own and our employees will wake up each day wanting to solve them. Through a culture of stewardship and calculated risk‑taking, we hope to mentor, develop and ultimately transition ICR’s ownership and leadership from our earliest employees to our future generation of employees.

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ICR has opportunities available for experienced and motivated Payload Engineers/Mission Planners. This position develops mission activities to address prioritized collection tasks.

• Active Top Secret Security Clearance with SSBI and SCI access – US Citizenship required
• A Bachelor’s Degree in a related field and 6 years of relevant experience or no degree with 8 years of relevant experience
• Exceptional analytical skills and problem‑solving skills
• Willingness to learn new skills and technologies
• Good organization, decision making, and verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to perform tasks on a team with supervision and guidance

• Build optimal, payload‑specific mission activities (including payload configurations based on received collection tasks and priority guidance messages)
• Plan mission activities in support of current CONOPS and SOPs
• Plan use of available sensors and payloads for online or offline collection operations, special projects, contingency planning, calibrations, and anomaly resolution actions, as directed by the customer
• Plan SIGINT Cross‑Aperture Overhead, non‑traditional and non‑SIGINT related collection tasks
• Coordinate resource allocations with the Government Lead when developing mission activities
• Incorporate feedback from relevant stakeholders into planning of mission activities to ensure collection requirements are met
• Change mission activities, defined as the lowest level of collection guidance provided in the daily mission plan, as directed by authorized Government personnel
• Collaborate with the overhead enterprise and prepare cross‑mission activities to support timeline development
• Document and deliver receiver on/off periods, biases, and other orbital parameters in mission activity products
• Generate functional analysis, timeline analysis, detailed trade studies, resource allocation and utilization analysis, collection requirements allocation and interface definition studies to plan collection tasks
• Develop and maintain job aids to plan mission activities
• Build automated strategies for implementation into Mission Management functions
• Ensure user intelligence needs are clearly articulated and flow through the automated strategy approval process in a timely manner
• Serve as the community of interest moderator for automated strategies to ensure active participation, engagement, and efficient process flow
• Participate as a member of the ABO community of interest to aid in the formulation of new automated strategies
• Provide validation and lineage of all aspects of an automated strategy to an end…