Sr. Manager - Software Systems Engineering

This position offers fully remote opportunities for candidates across the United States. Preferred work locations:
Arlington VA, Denver CO, or Merritt Island, FL.

Airbus U.S. Space & Defense, Inc offers advanced solutions to meet the most complex U.S. defense, security, space, and intelligence requirements. Celebrating over 50 years in the US, we remain a trusted government partner, leveraging world-class satellite, laser communication, rotor and fixed wing solutions to help our national security, defense and space focused customers meet their missions.

Airbus U.S. looks to employ a commitment driven team, dedicated to enabling our customer's mission success. We are committed to maintaining a diverse and inclusive work environment and a welcoming and engaging staff. With competitive compensation and superior employee benefits, as well as a commitment to fostering individual career growth, Airbus U.S. is the place where top talent wants to work.

Airbus U.S. is looking for an enthusiastic and creative Software Systems Engineering Senior Manager to design, analyze, and test new satellite and aerospace systems. We're looking for candidates who can bring exceptional engineering skills and strong leadership in aerospace programs to the team.

The Software Systems Engineering Senior Manager's primary responsibility will be leading the Software Systems Engineering team. This team will be involved in the full lifecycle of development, from requirements definition, validation, verification and operations. Being at the cutting edge of space technology, we need someone who is eager to learn, grow, and take on new and potentially unfamiliar challenges. There is no shortage of fascinating problems to solve.

The Software Systems Engineering Senior Manager will provide autonomous solutions of complex problems, through direct work and delegation, under the leadership of the Systems Engineering Director. The Software Systems Engineering Senior Manager will have project and subject matter responsibility and authority.

• Lead Software Systems Engineering team through multiple concurrent program phases, including proposal development, design development, design execution, verification, delivery, and on-orbit support. Team responsibilities include:
  • Generation of Software Design Architecture Requirement Documents.
  • Requirements traceability and flow-down management.
  • Use case development.
  • Software and System-Level Verification Planning.
  • Troubleshooting flight hardware and test anomalies.
• Develops and Grows Software System Engineering tools, processes, and methods for Airbus U.S.
• Ability to drive multiple design activities (programs or mission).
• Lead cross-functional teams in planning, coordination, and task execution, reporting to Program Managers.

• Perform all the necessary systems engineering activities to build, to maintain and to evolve the Airbus spacecraft products and execute development roadmaps.
• Provide input for new business capture.

• Bachelor's Degree in STEM (Science, Technical, Engineering, Math) or related scientific areas.
• Preferred:
  Master's Degree in STEM (Science, Technical, Engineering, Math) or related scientific areas.

• A minimum of 20 years with a bachelor's degree, or 18 years with a master's degree.
• Proven track-record of working with aerospace hardware and software systems, starting from conceptual designs and tradeoffs through detailed design, development, manufacture, integration, test, deployment, and operations.
• Proven track-record of managing people and managing multi-disciplinary teams.

• Expertise in elements of space mission architectures- including launch, flight operations, mission CONOPS, user interfaces, etc.
• System architecture design and validation approaches, including software specification development, functional specification development, and verification planning.
• Experience with requirements management tools (DOORS or similar).
• Experience with systems architecture, requirements definition and decomposition, and requirements verification and validation (e.g. Requirements Verification and Traceability Matrices).
• Communicate in a clear and concise manner effectively across multiple levels.
• Be team-minded and ready to work in a multi-functional and multi-cultural, fast-moving and complex/technical…