Mission Engineer

Mission Engineer (Space)

K ’s National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country’s most critical role – protecting our national security. K  is seeking a Mission Engineer (Space) to join the team to a rapidly expanding Government Intelligence Community (IC) customer.

The customer is developing the next generation of space and ground systems, architectures, and hardware and software solutions. This role will serve as the subject matter expert (SME) and System Program Office (SPO) representative coordinating with the development contractor and stakeholders (including end user operators) for deployment of new protection capabilities into space operations. This role will collaborate within a team of mission-related SMEs to coordinate system development, requirements verification testing (and sell-off), identification of discrepancies, and mission validation testing.

Innovative Projects: K ’s work is at the forefront of engineering, logistics, operations, science, program management, mission IT and cybersecurity solutions. Collaborative Environment:
Be part of a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration and innovation, fostering a supportive and intellectually stimulating workplace. Impactful Work:
Your contributions will be pivotal in designing and optimizing defense systems that ensure national security and shape the future of space defense.

• Coordinate with external SPOs to develop a common space protection concept of operations that identifies capability requirements and required interfaces to enable satisfaction of their unique protection needs, while simultaneously liaising, as required, to build relationships and manage expectations.
• Advocate for enterprise capability needs at developer working groups, SPO’s internal decision forums, and other technical meetings to facilitate achieving capability delivery commitments.
• Shape strategy recommendations to include engineering and acquisition trades that meet enterprise’s demand for space protection capabilities within the program’s development priorities and budget profile.
• Serve as a SPO technical expert providing oversight for software development, implementation, and deployment of ground processing system capabilities that are integrated with the NRO space enterprise.
• Collaborate with other SMEs to develop technical plans and documentation, advise the customer on technical progress of the acquisition, and support the integration of ground processing systems with space systems.
• Produce technical materials depicting SPO’s development progress in support of stakeholder equities in preparation for stakeholder’s NRO oversight and/or other readiness events, as required.
• Support the Contracting Officer Technical Representative(s) and developers to refine requirements, designs, and testing capabilities to meet user needs.

$135,000 - $163,000 USD annually

Location:

On-site
Travel Requirements:
Minimal travel

Working Hours:

Standard

• Clearance:
  Must have an active/current TS/SCI with a Polygraph
• Bachelor of Science STEM degree
• 8+ years supporting a Government acquisition program office
• Experience in Government System Engineering disciplines, including requirements development and management, readiness, and testing
• Experience developing, testing, or fielding space and/or ground software systems
• Familiarity with Space Domain Awareness (SDA) systems, activities, or operations

• Master’s degree in engineering discipline
• Experience in SDA and Indication and Warning (I&W) mission areas
• Experience supporting NRO SIGINT/GEOINT SPOs and/or familiarity with SIGINT/GEOINT operations
• Familiarity with NRO’s System’s Engineering Directorate (SED) and its Requirements Development/Management, RFC, and Lifecycle Readiness processes
• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies including participation in scrums, development of solution epics/features, and continuous integra

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