Senior Systems Engineering ​/ Deputy Project Systems Engineer

Job Summary

Serve as a Deputy Project Systems Engineer on a fast-paced delivery of Mars science payloads.

Hiring of this position is pending award of an upcoming opportunity to deliver multiple science payloads to a Mars spacecraft to belaunched in 2028. The Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics(LASP) is seeking a talented and driven systems engineer to play akey role in the delivery of interplanetary payloads to enableground-breaking Mars science.

As the Deputy Project Systems Engineer, you will work closely withthe Lead Project Systems Engineer and payload teams to implementhigh-heritage LASP payload systems in a rapid concurrentengineering program on a partner institution's spacecraft. This isa rare opportunity to support the rapid deployment of sciencepayloads from architecture formulation to space flight.

Successful candidates are thrive in technically challengingenvironments, make sound engineering decisions with incompleteinformation, and know how to balance mission performance, cost,schedule, and risk to enable exceptional science.

CU is an Equal Opportunity Employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment. We are committed to creating a workplace where all individuals are treated with respect and dignity, and we encourage individuals from all backgrounds toapply, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.

LASP combines the agility of a university laboratory with the technical capability of a premier space mission organization.

Engineers work directly alongside scientists, students, and missionoperators, allowing technical decisions to move quickly while maintaining scientific excellence.

As part of the University of Colorado Boulder (CU), LASP began in1948 and is a world-recognized space science research institutethat implements the full life cycle of science missions from the definition of the science questions through the development ofspace flight hardware and the subsequent mission operations. We arethe only research institute in the world to have sent scienceinstruments to all eight planets, Pluto, and beyond the solarsystem.

LASP combines all aspects of space exploration through our expertise in science, engineering, mission operations, and scientific data analysis. As part of CU, LASP also works to educate and train the next generation of space scientists, engineers and mission operators by integrating undergraduate and graduate students into working teams. Our students take their unique experiences with them into government or industry or remain inacademia to continue the cycle of exploration.

As the Deputy Project Systems engineer, you will work with the Lead Project Systems Engineer to carve out a role in the technical leadership and support of LASP payloads as well as management of the external interface between the LASP payloads and partnerspacecraft. In the rapid concurrent engineering environment of this program, this role will heavily involve the management and tracking of design/interface/modeling assumptions and ensuring that engineering decisions made across payload subsystems remain aligned and consistent with the mission’s scientific objectives.

• Lead the identification and documentation of technical requirements
• Identify key system capabilities and performance requirements
• Create diagrams to show system structure and functional relationships
• Write and maintain technical documentation (deliverable and internal)
• Contribute to the system implementation approach and operational concept

• Assist the development of system architectures and interfacedefinitions
• Identify key interface relationships and work with disciplinaryspecialists to define them
• Coordinate the development of interface control documents and supporting information
• Develops architectural guidelines for current and future system development

• Track proposed changes to a system to ensure that impacts arefully evaluated
• Evaluate the impacts of changes to interfacing systems andensure that all impacted interfaces and designs are comprehensivelyassessed