Aerospace Systems Engineer III - Blue Ring Space Vehicle & Verification Architect; MTN

Special Mentions:

• Relocation provided
• 10-15% travel required

• Perform as the Mission Requirements & Verification Lead for a critical Blue Ring customer mission, including all aspects of requirement decomposition, derivation, and allocation
• Collaborate with the Blue Ring Mission Lead Systems Engineers, Spacecraft Systems Engineering, Flight Software, Payload & Mission Integration, and Ground Systems Engineering Teams to define system and mission verification plans across multiple customers and missions
• Engage with internal and external customers, including government agencies and contractors, to perform analysis of unique customer and mission requirements and verification needs
• Develop and manage requirements and verification modules, including internal and external interfaces, with accurate flow-down and traceability
• Understand and define the relationships and traceability between requirements, design parameters, technical budgets, ICDs, program plans, and technical performance measures
• Establish verification approaches and plans for system requirements and identify Integration and Test activities required for successful requirements selloff
• Work across organizational boundaries to manage the successful acquisition of verification data necessary to show compliance to system requirements
• Perform compliance and traceability assessments and be able to report key metrics and issues effectively to program leadership and stakeholders
• Create and own system-level spacecraft verification plans and execution
• Support launch site system testing, including payload and launch vehicle integration
• Develop product line verification plans and roll-up deliverables
• Deliver verification reports that ensure launch and operational readiness
• Ensure all payload interface requirements are met and spacecraft is ready for count-down
• Verify end-to-end functionality of system including ground system compatibility

• Minimum of a B.S in Aerospace, Electrical, Mechanical or Software engineering, or equivalent technical field
• Experience with requirements management tools such as DOORS, Jama, etc.
• 5+ or more years of space system development or test engineering experience
• 2+ or more years of spacecraft verification experience
• Demonstrated experience performing activities such as requirements definition, traceability, interface definition, design documentation, integration, verification, and validation
• Background in creating requirement verification reports and roll-up verification of lower level requirements to system level sell-off
• Experience across the Systems Engineering lifecycle and the "Systems Engineering V"
• Proven problem-solving skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
• Ability to obtain a US Government Top Secret / Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) Clearance

• Spacecraft operations, command & control system experience, including familiarity with spacecraft and ground-system internal and external interfaces and/or spacecraft communications uplink and downlink technologies
• Spaceflight and mission operations experience including CONOPs development
• Product line engineering experience
• Familiarity with Model-Based Systems Engineering
• Familiarity with System Modeling tools such as Cameo Systems Modeler, Enterprise Architect, Magic Draw, or Rhapsody
• Software or scripting language experience
• Knowledge of collaboration tools such as Confluence and JIRA
• Familiarity with formal risk and opportunity management processes
• Master's degree in Systems Engineering, Systems Architecture or a…