Missile Tracking Systems Engineer

As a Missile Tracking Systems Engineer for the U.S. Space Force Space Development Agency (SDA) Ground, Management and Integration (GMI) program, you will be a key member of a cross-functional team responsible for developing and deploying state-of-the-art ground operational systems for the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA).

You will be part of an elite team providing the evolution, expansion, integration, testing and maintenance of the ground entry points, operations centers, enterprise test and checkout capabilities and infrastructure management, including all development, systems engineering, integration, testing, maintenance, and site support.

Responsibilities:

• Systems engineering that includes decomposing requirements into architecture, internal and external interfaces, and system design behaviors
• Pre-planned or ad-hoc scheduling and situational awareness of satellites and payloads capabilities to track missiles
• Analysis and fusion of missile tracking data provided by satellite to the ground for processing and rapidly providing and disseminating the information

Qualifications:

• U.S. Citizenship is required by Federal Law
• Active Top Secret Clearance required
• Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, or a related STEM Field
• 10 years of recent algorithm development and tuning for specific mission parameters
• 15 years of recent designing and developing systems that can solve complex problems using algorithms
• Able to work on-site 3 days per week in Scottsdale, AZ

Preferred Qualifications:

• Recent experience with missile tracking systems design and architecture, and sensor fusion techniques
• Recent experience designing logic, assessing and scheduling satellite services to track missiles Knowledge of cloud technologies and their application in system design and deployment
• Experience with image processing (collection, handling, storing, and analysis)