Spacecraft Systems Engineer Millennium Space Systems

Job Description

Senior Spacecraft Systems Engineer, responsible for owning the technical execution for programs and leading teams developing spacecraft systems serving a range of missions and customers. This includes creating, monitoring, and guiding requirements definition, spacecraft design, procurement and fabrication, integration and test, and verification and validation of the overall space vehicle system. You will interact with subsystem and unit engineers, manufacturing and test personnel, and program management, managing the technical elements of the space vehicle system.

The position is internal and currently hiring for Levels 5-6.

• Provides systems engineering leadership to programs
• Provides mentorship to junior systems engineering and subsystem staff
• Collaborates with program and financial leadership to ensure successful programmatic execution
• Applies an interdisciplinary, collaborative approach to plan, design, develop and verify a lifecycle balanced solution for space systems
• Understands spacecraft subsystems functions and interfaces, develops integrated spacecraft system designs and solutions
• Responsible for all aspects of spacecraft systems engineering including performing preliminary concept development, trade studies, CONOPS definition, requirements decomposition and allocation, interface requirements definition, requirements verification and validation, support to integration and test operations, anomaly resolution, risk management, and schedule execution
• Coordinates and communicates with subsystem engineering teams to ensure system execution
• Develops the planning organization, implementation and monitoring of requirements management processes, tools, risk, issues, opportunity management and technology readiness assessment processes
• Applies model-based systems engineering techniques for the definition of the spacecraft system
• Participates in software integration and test activities to ensure mission functionality prior to deployment into operations
• Coordinates with management and peers to ensure the integrity of high‑quality operational products, including procedures, tools, and system configuration
• Performs tasks to analyze technical data, verify and sustain specific systems configurations in accordance with defined constraints and operational requirements
• Performs various analyses to optimize the spacecraft system and/or system architecture
• Resolves cross‑functional technical issues
• Develops and improves systems engineering processes

• Ability to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance; U.S. citizenship required, with a final U.S. Top Secret security clearance post‑start
• Bachelor’s Degree in engineering, engineering technology, computer science, engineering data science, mathematics, or physics and 14+ years related work experience; or Master’s Degree in an engineering discipline and 12+ years related work experience; or an equivalent combination of technical education and experience
• 14 years experience with space systems engineering principles and techniques
• Experience with power, mass, and other system budgets
• Experience with requirements analysis and flow‑down
• Experience with design verification and validation processes
• Experience with configuration management
• Experience with satellite level integration and test processes
• Experience with satellite in‑orbit operations

• Master’s Degree in Aerospace or other relevant engineering or science discipline
• Greater than 18 years professional experience in space systems engineering
• Demonstrated familiarity with program management principles and tools
• Direct experience with one or more rapid spacecraft development programs and missions; experience with a full life‑cycle from concept to in‑orbit operations
• Demonstrated leadership and communications skills
• Active TS/SCI U.S. Security Clearance

Successful candidates for this job must satisfy the Company’s Conflict of Interest (COI) assessment process.

Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing Company, is a Drug Free Workplace (DFW). Post‑offer applicants and employees…