System Design/Architect Engineer

Job Description

Ready for What's Next? At Kratos, we encourage an entrepreneurial spirit balanced with discipline. We work hard, and take care of our customers, employees, and families. Recognized as thought leaders in our industry, we are motivated by creating and delivering innovative solutions to our nation and global customers.

This System Engineering position is an exciting opportunity responsible for Evolved Strategic SATCOM (ESS) task order execution in support of the highly successful Command and Control Consolidated System supporting the C-SAR program based in Colorado Springs, CO. The successful candidate, as part of our engineering team, will work with our management, product, and IR&D teams to help create strategic technical visions. Additionally, they will support requirements analysis, system design, reliability analysis, system hardware/software integration, risk management, and system documentation generation/updates. The candidate will work closely with system developers, test, and on-site user support personnel to support system updates, and ensure project objectives are met.

• Supporting the C-SAR System Engineering team to ensure all engineering contractual requirements and deliverables are met.
• Perform studies and capture technical analysis in support future design reviews
• Support Interface Control Document generation and recurring ICWGs with internal/external stakeholders
• Participate in CDRLs generation and deliveries based on customer prescribed schedule
• SecDevOps processes and related Agile practices (Atlassian suite)
• Perform the role of Product Owner
• Requirement's decomposition and analysis
• System design and architecture
• Support Reliability analysis
• System documentation generation and updates
• Provide technical advice to our customers on architectures and potential solutions
• Develop and deliver effective customer presentations (support design reviews, status reports, kickoff meetings, test plans) demonstrating an ability to communicate comfortably at a system level
• Attend and support highly technical engineering team meetings
• Travel as necessary to attend conferences and customer meetings

Experience and Skills

• 6 years engineering experience
• BS in SE, CS, EE, ME, or other engineering equivalent
• Proven experience as a Product Owner or other relevant roles
• Complete knowledge of Agile methodology
• Support programs through SRR, PDR, CDR or equivalent design reviews
• Familiarity with modern IT infrastructure capabilities to include virtualization, cloud deployment and containerization (CNFs)
• Candidate must be self-motivated and comfortable with supporting multiple groups of developers, engineers, and testers.
• Candidate must be able to articulate technical concepts orally and in written forms both internally to the team as well as externally to the customer and users.
• Excellent written and oral communications skills.
• Working knowledge of space systems, including ground systems, satellite command and control, and system development processes is a plus.
• Attend and support highly technical engineering team meetings

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Space to ground ICDs
• SCN (formally AFSCN)
• SATCOM mission planning
• Risk management
• MBSE
• SecDevOps processes and related Agile practices
• Risk Management Framework (RMF)
• Security certification is not required but is beneficial to the position

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Competitive salary based on experience and education

Salary Range: $110,000-$147,000

Kratos is valued for our ability to design and deliver leading edge, resilient solutions for aerospace communication, control, awareness and mission success across a continuum of offerings-from commercial to tailored custom solutions and integrated programs. Customers trust us to stay relevant and know we are in it for the long-haul. We bring both the capability and confidence that our customers value and depend on. And, we always deliver.

Job Benefits

• Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance Coverage
• Life/ADD & Short/Long Term Disability Insurance
• 401(k) Savings Plan
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Paid Time-Off (PTO)
• Holidays
• Education Reimbursement

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