What are the responsibilities and job description for the Missile Tracking Systems Engineer position at Revolution Technologies?
Position: Space Force – Missile Tracking Systems Engineer
Location: Hybrid in Scottsdale, AZ - (***Other locations that are acceptable are: San Jose CA, Chantilly VA, Grand Forks ND, Colorado Springs CO, Huntsville AL, Pittsburgh PA***)
Duration: 12 Months
Clearance Needed: Secret
Education & Years of Experience:
- Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, or a related Science, Engineering, Technology or Mathematics field AND 8 years of job-related experience
- OR Master's degree plus 6 years of job-related experience.
- Agile experience preferred.
CLEARANCE REQUIREMENTS::
- Department of Defense Secret security clearance is reuired at time of hire.
- Applicants selected may be subject to a U.S. Government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
- Due to the nature of work performed within our facilities, U.S. citizenship is required.
Responsibilities for this Position
As a Missile Tracking Systems Engineer for the US 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.
Key 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
Technical Skills Required
- Minimum of 15 years of recent designing and developing systems that can solve complex problems using algorithms
- Minimum of 10 years of recent algorithm development and tuning for specific mission parameters
Bonus Skills You Might Bring
- 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)