Mission Architect; Remote Sensing

Mission Architect (Remote Sensing) - Millennium Space Systems

Company:

Millennium Space Systems, a part of Boeing Defense, Space and Security (BDS), is a fast, agile small satellite company focused on national security space. Our missions have direct impact to global security, like missile warning and Earth observation.

Our team is curious, bold and innovative. We take risks, innovate and explore new techniques and technologies. We influence change because we challenge the status quo. And when we watch our satellites launch, we know each one of us made it happen.

Millennium programs are reshaping the future Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR) enterprise for National Security Space customers, focusing on smaller, proliferated, and resilient systems across multiple mission areas. Millennium is establishing a resilient missile warning architecture that adds capability to global detection, warning and precision tracking of advanced threats, including hypersonic missile systems.

As a Mission Architect, you will be an OPIR Subject Matter Expert (SME), overseeing mission architecture and spacecraft/constellation design across one or more programs. You will oversee all aspects of designing, developing, and fielding Remote Sensing (RS) space segments, including integration with ground and user segments. You will design and develop modeling and simulation tools and methods to validate mission scenarios and assess end-to-end system performance against Key Performance Parameters (KPPs).

You will be responsible for assessing sensor design, development, and performance, conducting solution trades, and decomposing requirements for payload and algorithm vendors. You will be integral to writing proposals, requirements definition, system design, integration & test, and on-orbit operations.

Position Responsibilities:

• Define architecture and system requirements for OPIR missions

• Lead modeling and simulation efforts to assess system performance

• Develop CONOPS at the spacecraft, constellation, and mission level

• Architect and implement Mission Data Processing (MDP) algorithms (onboard and ground-based)

• Oversee mission level budgets and KPPs (e.g. LOS knowledge, jitter/smear, optical transmission, latency, etc.)

• Ensure space system (including Electro-Optical/Infrared (EO/IR) payloads and bus components) meet mission level requirements

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

• Bachelor's Degree in engineering or the physical sciences / computer science and 14+ years of experience in the design, development, delivery, and operation of space-based remote sensing missions

  • OR Master's Degree and 12+ years of experience in the design, development, delivery, and operation of space-based remote sensing missions

  • OR PhD and 10+ years of experience in the design, development, delivery, and operation of space-based remote sensing missions

• Expertise in the design and performance of EO/IR sensors

• An active Secret U.S. Security Clearance. (A U.S. Security Clearance that has been active in the past 24 months is considered active).

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• 20+ years of experience in the design, development, delivery, and operation of space-based OPIR missions

• Subject Matter Expertise in earth-observing EO/IR missions

• Experience leading multi-disciplinary technical teams

• Experience with the missile warning, tracking, and defense mission across domains (air, ground, space, user, etc.)

• Experience with modeling and simulation of constellation performance

• Familiarity with mission modeling and simulation techniques to assess sensing mission performance

• Possess active U.S. Top Secret/SCI Security Clearance

Conflict of Interest:

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

Drug Free Workplace:

Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing Company, is a Drug Free Workplace (DFW) where post offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP, and alcohol when criteria is met as outlined in our policies.

Total Rewards:

At Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing Company, we strive to deliver a Total Rewards package that will attract, engage and retain the top talent. Elements of the Total Rewards package include competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.

Millennium Space Systems also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and a number of programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work.

The specific programs and options available to any given employee may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

Pay is based upon candidate experience and qualifications, as well as market and business…