Mission Integration Engineer, Mission and Ground Systems - Top Secret Clearance Verified today
Mission Integration Engineer, Mission and Ground Systems
As a member of the Mission Management team, you will tackle technical problems from initial requirements verification through rapid prototyping, integrated test, and operational deployment. You'll work within a team of Mission Integration Engineers and Mission Managers to ensure alignment across programs and related efforts.
Core Responsibilities
- Serve as customer interface at meetings, tests, and reviews to develop operations plans, design missions, and participate in real-world operations
- Ensure contract deliverables are completed on-time and translate customer requirements into actionable development objectives
- Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders across subsystems to drive development and ensure end-to-end mission success
- Support all phases from development proposal through successful test, flight, and on-orbit commissioning, including customer education
- Own ground segment interface and architecture design, including compute infrastructure, network architecture, and software systems
- Support forward-deployed engineering efforts with external stakeholders and customers
Work Scope
You will develop system specifications, interface control documentation, and infrastructure plans for mission-specific systems. Your work will cover space system command and control, operational planning, data processing, compute and networking infrastructure, integrated mission planning, and payload integration.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or science discipline
- 1+ years of software engineering or electrical engineering, working hands-on with hardware or software technical projects
- Active Top Secret, Top Secret SCI, or DOE Level Q Clearance
Preferred Experience
- Familiarity with USG processes and software systems
- Experience coordinating hardware or infrastructure deployments in classified or government-controlled environments
- Familiarity with networking fundamentals (IP networking, switching/routing concepts)
- Demonstrated ability to work under pressure and deliver reliable results across multiple parallel priorities
- Detail-oriented with excellent written and verbal technical communication skills
- Spacecraft mission design, development, integration, and/or test experience
- Innovation capability in process improvement and system design
- Ability to balance conflicting opinions and manage expectations between multiple teams and customers
Compensation
Level 1: $100,000 to $130,000 annually
Level 2: $115,000 to $160,000 annually
Actual level and base salary determined case-by-case based on job-related knowledge and skills, education, and experience.
Additional benefits include long-term incentives (stock or cash awards), discretionary bonuses, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, comprehensive medical/vision/dental coverage, 401(k) retirement plan, disability and life insurance, paid parental leave, 3 weeks paid vacation, and 10+ paid holidays annually. Employees with an active clearance receive a 10% differential, up to an additional $20,000 annually, once officially briefed into a classified program.
Requirements
To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful permanent resident (green card holder), Refugee under 8 U.S.C. Section 1157, or Asylee under 8 U.S.C. Section 1158, or be eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.