Engineer V

Job Summary

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) designs and manufactures first-of-a-kind electromagnetic and electric power generation systems. GA-EMS' expanding portfolio of specialized products and integrated system solutions support critical fleet, space systems and satellites, missile defense, power and energy, and process and monitoring applications for defense, industrial, and commercial customers worldwide.

Whether a specific satellite for a specific mission or a constellation of interconnected spacecraft, the GA-EMS Space Systems team is re-defining how customers can access the possibilities of space. GA-EMS offers modular and scalable satellite platforms backed with a history of operational flight experience to support defense, civil, commercial, and academic mission requirements.

We currently have an exciting opportunity for a Ground System Architecture working on satellite systems to join our team located in Englewood, CO.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Program leadership team member responsible for technical leadership of the engineering team in the space system, ground systems, satellite development, and integration and test.
• Vision for common ground approach across missions.
• Ownership of Ground Roadmap, determines annual and multi-year technical objectives for designated engineering systems or project(s)/program(s)
• Strategic and Tactical prioritization across program coordinating Ground Technical capabilities
  • Identify capabilities that can be common,
  • coordinate which program needs these common capabilities
• Platform Architecture Design
• Network Architecture Design
• Software Architecture Design
• Provides accountability for technical risk, conduct of technical reviews, system modeling and simulation, system performance, system architecture and trade studies.
• Leads the integration of the ground system solution within the overall engineering environment; and ensures that appropriate documentation, testing, maintenance, and engineering updates are completed.
• Perform mission and system design on missions from bid generation through launch and operations.
• Represents the ground systems on projects(s)/program(s) as a prime subject matter expert.
• Act as expert consultant and advisor for ground system design engineering.
• Advises or directs the activities of assigned project(s)/program(s) to achieve technical objectives.
• Directs and allocates technical resources and professional staff to achieve objectives.
• Develops new and/or expands existing business opportunities.
• Ensures compliance, reporting, and safety standards are maintained.
• Participates in the planning, selection, retention, and development of the professional staff.
• Publishes and present technical papers and abstracts and participate in internal and external technical program reviews.
• Maintains the strict confidentiality of sensitive information.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Responsible for observing all laws, regulations and other applicable obligations wherever and whenever business is conducted on behalf of the Company.
• Expected to work in a safe manner in accordance with established operating procedures and practices.

We recognize and appreciate the value and contributions of individuals with diverse backgrounds and experiences and welcome all qualified individuals to apply.

Job Qualifications

• Typically requires a bachelors degree, masters degree or PhD in engineering or a related technical discipline from an accredited institution and progressive engineering experience as follows; nine or more years of experience with a bachelors degree, seven or more years of experience with a masters degree, or four or more years with a PhD. May substitute equivalent engineering experience in lieu of education.
• Active and current TS/SCI clearance required.
• Must have at least 8 years of space systems design experience.
• Must have at least 5 years of experience in leading technical teams.
• Experience includes full Systems Engineering, Architecture and SW development lifecycles (SDLC)
• Manages projects to ensure proper use of SDLC techniques including requirement development, design, Agile/DEVSECOPS/CI/CD, QA/testing, documentation and end-user training.
• Domain expertise in Satellite Command and Control, Mission Planning and Scheduling, Satellite Imaging systems, Space Situational Awareness, Network Management, AWS Cloud Computing, Object Oriented and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Distributed Computing/Virtualization and its application in Multi-Level Cyber Security (RMF, NIST 800-53, 800-171, PKI) Environments, Model Bases Systems Engineering/Architecture (MBSE/A), Cameo.
• Design and development of large-scale cloud-based systems and applications.
• Experience in the design and development of multi-threading.
• Experience in multiple software languages, python, C/C++, Java are desirable.
• Design and development of cloud technology: Containers, VMWare, Docker, Podman, AWS, AWS EKS
• Perform network bandwidth analysis to define network hardware specifications.
• Perform system capability decomposition into JIRA EPIC/Stories including definition and management of Acceptance Criteria.
• Experience/knowledge of Open C3 Cosmos.
• Grafana dashboards.
• Experience/Knowledge of Spacecraft command/telemetry uplink/downlink path engineering and design including Ground networking, RF communications and NSA Type-1 encryption approaches
• Demonstrates a detailed and extensive technical expertise and application of engineering principles, concepts, theory, and practice as well as project and/or program leadership including organizing, planning, scheduling, and coordinating workloads to meet established project deadlines or milestones.
• Must posses the ability to contribute to the development of new concepts and principles; resolve unusually complex technical problems; serve as spokesperson on projects and/or programs; and be a technical expert in one or more areas of engineering.
• Strong communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills are required enabling an effective leadership interface with other departments, all levels of management, professional and support staff, customers, potential customers, and government representatives.
• Great interpersonal skills working in a team environment.
• Demonstrated systems engineering experience in the entire lifecycle.
• Experience preparing for and presenting at customer reviews.
• Systems engineering expertise in ICDs, Requirements, CONOPs, Test, and system integration.