Sr Mission Systems Engineer

Sr Mission Systems Engineer

Location:

US-CO-Colorado Springs

Estimated Starting Salary Range: USD $/Yr.

- USD $/Yr. Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data.

Scientific Research Corporation (SRC) is an advanced information technology engineering company that provides innovative products and services to government and private industry, as well as independent institutions. At the core of our capabilities is a seasoned team of highly skilled engineers and scientists with multidisciplinary backgrounds. This team is challenged daily to provide cutting edge technology solutions to our clients.

We are searching for a Senior-level Mission Systems Engineer with experience in establishing, managing, and overseeing space-based mission system and capability integration processes, procedures, and policies in support of United States Space Command (USSPACECOM) systems. This role involves ensuring compliance with space-based mission system engineering integration policies and directives, applying system engineering and architecture design principles throughout the program life cycle, and producing technical reports, models, and design drawings.

The position requires extensive experience in space-based mission system engineering capability integration, particularly within the DoD context. Work will be conducted at the government’s facilities in Colorado Springs, CO.

FILLING THIS POSITION IS CONTINGENT UPON FUNDING

• Oversee the integration of space-based mission systems into the consolidated space operation facility (CSOF).
• Ensure technical synchronization and consistency across all engineering disciplines involved in project execution.
• Collaborate with mission partners to plan and execute major technical transitions involving procurement, infrastructure setup, and connectivity.
• Work with multidisciplinary teams to ensure the system meets mission requirements and program objectives.
• Develop tools and process improvements to aggregate, validate, and report on multi-source requirements, streamlining planning and decision-making.
• Identify and assess technical risks, develop mitigation strategies minimizing impact to the program's cost and schedule.
• Support program leadership with resource allocation, stakeholder engagement, and risk management to ensure program success.
• Manage cross-functional alignment by overseeing and maintaining a 1,900-line Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) in Microsoft Project.
• Facilitate weekly IMS review meetings to document action items, mitigate risks, and track schedule progress with internal teams and stakeholders.
• Capture and translate mission and customer requirements and needs into mission system requirements and solutions.
• Conduct courses of action, trade studies, and engineering assessments.
• Design and develop mission system and enterprise architectures and associated artifacts.
• Lead monthly program reviews with senior leadership, reporting on milestones, performance metrics, and schedule health.
• Collaborate and coordinate with external customers, management, vendors, and other engineering disciplines.
• Represent the program in high-level meetings, delivering progress updates and facilitating timely solutions to complex system challenges.

• 10 years minimum experience in DoD or Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Space-based Mission System Integration including establishment, execution, and management of all aspects of Systems Integration Engineering throughout the full program lifecycle (concept definition, design, test, and production).
• Eight or more years of engineering or project management experience in a defense or high-tech environment.
• Knowledge of space-based ground mission systems, tools (SDK, SDCCS, etc.), and information technology characteristics and concepts.
• Experience with definition of high level functional and performance mission system requirements and verification methods, subsequent analysis, decomposition, and derivation of requirements, allocation of those lower-level requirements to physical and functional architectural elements, and tracking them through design, verification, integration, testing, and operational validation.
• Experience with risk assessments and generate mitigation plans to comply with system/customer requirements.
• Proven experience managing Integrated Master Schedules using Microsoft Project.
• Strong proficiency in Excel and Jira.
• Possess IAT/IAM Level II or greater (e.g., Security+, CCNA).
• Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science or related technical field or an additional five years of experience in Engineering, Computer Science or IT related fields.
• Exceptional interpersonal and leadership skills with a demonstrated ability to drive collaboration across technical and non-technical teams.

• Experience working with National Space Defense Center (NSDC) or National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).
• Experience as a Space…