XMSTART is looking to add an experienced and strategic full-time SIGINT Flight Engineer to our team, in Aurora, CO. This position is 100% onsite.
Requirements
Responsibilities:
- Provide Systems Engineering and Technical Advisory (SETA) services focused on SIGINT collection systems and systems engineering
- Represent the government in executing spacecraft integration, test, launch, and on-orbit operations
- Conduct anomaly support, launch and mission readiness, and end-to-end space systems architecture analysis
- Maintain close communications with the program acquisition office and customer engineering organizations providing recommendations on risk level of spacecraft activities
- Oversee day-to-day execution of mission operations and processes to ensure proper attention to health, safety, and effective use of national resources
- Provide launch and mission readiness subject matter expertise to operations and engineering including readiness for launch, spacecraft initialization, and transition to mission
Qualifications:
- Experience in spacecraft, payload, and launch vehicle engineering as well as mission readiness
- process, control gates, and associated entry/exit criteria
- SIGINT systems engineering expertise, and significant space and ground systems domain knowledge
- Technical familiarity with SIGINT system’s payloads, subsystems, and technical capabilities
- Self-starter, proactively addresses customer requirements with no supervision; readily defines
- solutions for broad, abstract topics
- Polished communicator (written/verbal); impeccable interpersonal skills and personal judgment
Preferred Qualifications:
- 4-years’ experience in initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, controlling, and/or closing DoD or Intelligence Community projects or Programs
- Real-time operations experience as a spacecraft operator or spacecraft engineer, familiar with space operations/policies
- Familiar with Digital Engineering/Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and associated tools, Agile development, cloud technologies
- Contract management/COTR support experience
- Experience with Jira, Confluence
Education:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) or
- Relevant field and nine (9) years or
- More experience; Master’s Degree in STEM or relevant field and seven (7) years or more experience
Certification:
- COTR certification (preferred)
Security Clearance Requirements:
- Must be a US Citizen with with an Active TS/SCI with Polygraph