Staff Systems EngineerPosted today$253K

Chantilly, Virginia, United States; Herndon, Virginia, United StatesManufacturing

The opportunity

We are looking for a Staff Systems Engineer to join our rapidly growing team in Chantilly, VA. In this role, you will be responsible for the full life cycle of design, development, integration & test, and operations for spacecraft and associated systems including maintaining and…

What you'll do

  • Work with a cross-functional team to design market leading hardware products

  • Drive product maturity through rapid prototyping, design verification, and qualification activities

  • Apply modern space-flight hardware design standards and guidelines to create: high-reliability, highly manufacturable systems

  • Develop, track, and maintain system requirements and work with other: disciplines to assure the overall system as well as subsystems are meeting, testing, and verifying compliance with the requirements

  • Define, track, and maintain program risks and risk burn-down plans

  • Define, track, and maintain system budgets

What they're looking for

  • Lead the team in establishing internal guidelines and best practices for: space flight hardware design, test, manufacture, and operations
  • Conduct peer-level and cross-discipline design reviews and develop: customer-facing system design documentation and presentations
  • Help drive development, integration and test activities to meet schedule
  • Work in a fast-paced environment, having to juggle multiple concurrent projects and customers