Systems Engineer

Overview

Our System Engineer will provide expert level advisory and facilitation services across the life cycle of Model Based System Engineering Acquisitions in support of the Intelligence and Defense communities.

Responsibilities

• Plan MBSE model development in support of systems engineering objectives and program milestones
• Identify and assess segment-level impacts of new capabilities, including across specification, internal and external interfaces, and facilitate integration into the current program baseline
• Identify risks to mission closure in the collection segment and evaluate proposed burn-down plans
• Manage and develop requirements from higher level Enterprise governing documents to the Segment level and lower
• Support relevant specification development and test planning activities across the enterprise and with development contractors
• Support initialization and on-orbit calibration and validation activities
• Support ground site integration and test activities
• Support customer design review, providing technical insight to evaluate developer design
• Coordinate across the Program for any proposed specification changes and facilitate integration of changes into the baseline
• Develop model queries and supporting documentation to enable use of model results
• Develop productive relationships with development contractor counterparts, functional counterparts, and other spacecraft, payload, and ground subject matter experts
• Liaise with mission analysis and acquisition teams to ensure completeness across the acquisition

Skills Required

• Leverage a variety of software tools including DOORs, and perform analyses and automation of tasks
• Lead the transition and stand-up of the above specification management activities into an appropriately scoped and purposed MBSE framework
• Lead coordination and completion of segment specification sell-off, along with other verification and validation activities
• Lead integration of new capabilities to the program baseline
• Manage external interface definition and coordination of changes with external stakeholders and developer
• Advise and mentor customer personnel regarding Segment architecture, specification, and verification and validation
• Provide technical insight to evaluations of developer proposals

Education

Bachelors degree required, preferably in math, engineering, business, or the sciences.