Ground Segment Systems Engineer

Job Description:

Are you looking for an opportunity to combine your technical skills with big picture thinking to make an impact on national security space missions? You understand your customer’s environment and how to develop the right systems for their mission. Your ability to translate real-world needs into technical specifications makes you an integral part of delivering a customer focused engineering solution. If this sounds like you, come join GreenDart’s team to work on the Military’s top priority space programs.

As a ground systems engineer on our team, you will work with GreenDart colleagues and the Military to develop and deploy the next generation of resilient Environmental Monitoring (EM) and Tactical Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (TISR) capabilities to deliver critical information to our warfighters to quickly win or even prevent future wars. Your client will trust you to develop Technical Requirements Documents (TRDs), Interface Control Documents (ICDs), technical assessments, integration plans, verification plans, and digital mission and system models for satellite ground systems. You will grow your skills by researching new requirements, technologies, and threats and using innovative engineering methodologies and tools to create tomorrow’s solutions.

You Have: 

• 5 years of experience with large-scale ground systems engineering and integration on national security space programs 
• 4 years of experience with performing systems engineering analysis and developing systems engineering products for satellite systems or ground systems for Command and Control and Data Processing
• 3 years of experience in network architecture 
• Experience with the development of technical specifications, interface control documents, ground architectures and designs, integration plans and schedules, and test plans 
• Experience with managing traceability of requirements and developing testable criteria, system validation and verification, and analysis 
• Knowledge of systems engineering standards, including IEEE 15288.1 and IEEE 15288.2 
• Knowledge of Agile methodologies 
• Secret clearance 
• Bachelor’s degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) field

Nice If You Have: 

• Experience with performing systems engineering, integration, and testing on space-based remote sensing systems, including SBIRS, Next Generation OPIR, FORGE, STSS, HBTSS, DMSP, WSF-M, and EWS 
• Experience with planning and executing program reviews throughout the life cycle of the system 
• Experience with using a Model-Based Systems Engineering approach to manage system definitions and technical baselines 
• Knowledge of satellite ground system design, cloud architectures, DevOps and DevSecOps, software frameworks, communication and networking, data processing, exploitation, and dissemination, space system operations and tasking, mission planning, space-ground integration, or space system factory support 
• Knowledge of DoD 5000.01/02 
• TS/SCI clearance 
• Master’s degree in an Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or Computer Science field 
• INCOSE Systems Engineering Professional Certification, including ASEP, CSEP, or ESEP 

Travel:

Travel may be required to sites located across the United States

Salary Range:

$96,352 - $206,189

Clearence:

Secret Clearence