Senior Space Systems Engineer

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MITRE’s Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is seeking an experienced engineer and a critical thinker with deep technical skills and a demonstrated track record of fostering, promoting, and fielding innovative ideas and solutions. This position would interface with the MDA Space Systems product development teams (integrated government, industry and FFRDC/UARCs) to bring technical solutions to bear on the government’s toughest challenges in the acquisition, design, and integration of space capabilities toward successful fielding to operations. This is a Senior System Engineer Step, Colorado Springs, CO-based, position; this work location is required to effectively foster staff relationships and shape the direct work program.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Provide space systems engineering subject matter expertise directly to government programs to understand needs, execute and deliver quality technical engineering analysis to inform leadership decisions.
• Sponsor interaction – MDA senior leadership, MITRE division leadership, individual Govt personnel
• Stakeholder coordination – Coordinate across MDA and DoD enterprises and industry partners to achieve outcomes benefiting MDA and the DoD enterprise as a whole
• Inform technical development, test evaluation, and integration of data distribution enterprises, requirements, and concepts of operations for space systems
• Build partnerships and coordinate efforts across MITRE, Industry, and government sponsor programs
• Develop technical reports and presentations on analysis results, options, and recommendations
• Present technical recommendations to government sponsors and stakeholders
  
  

Basic Qualifications:

• Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, systems engineering or equivalent and 5 years’ experience in relevant domain; or 3 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with relevant experience who can immediately contribute at this job step; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience
• Active Secret clearance or the ability to obtain TS/SCI clearance.
• Demonstrated systems engineering experience, including requirements definition, engineering development, integration, and testing
• Experience in space systems engineering
• Understanding of RF engineering, communications architecture development
• Analytical, decision-making, strategic thinking, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to clearly communicate complex technical ideas to executive-level stakeholders
• This position has an on-site requirement of 5 days a week on-site.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Software/system development experience
• Analysis and assessment experience
• MS or higher engineering degree and 3 years’ experience in relevant engineering domain
• Active TS/SCI clearance
  
  

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

Secret

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):

Top Secret/SCI

Salary compensation range and midpoint:

$117,000 - $146,500 - $176,000 Annual

Work Location Type:

Onsite

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