Ground Milsatcom Systems Engineer (senior or Principal)

Boeing Boeing · Aerospace · Seal Beach, CA

Seeking a Senior or Principal Ground Systems Engineer for Boeing Defense, Space and Security to lead development of next-generation satellite ground mission planning systems. Responsibilities include applying interdisciplinary approaches to plan, design, develop, and verify complex system solutions, evaluating customer needs, defining performance requirements, integrating technical parameters, and performing various analyses for system architecture and quality factors. The role involves managing requirements, supporting government interfaces, and resolving cross-functional technical issues within an agile environment.

What you'd actually do

  1. Applies an interdisciplinary, collaborative approach to plan, design, develop and verify complex system solution.
  2. Evaluates customer/operational needs to define and coordinate system performance requirements, integrate technical parameters and assure compatibility of all physical, functional and program interfaces.
  3. Performs various analyses to optimize total system of systems and/or system architecture.
  4. Performs analyses for affordability, safety, reliability, maintainability, testability, human systems integration, survivability, vulnerability, susceptibility, system security, regulatory, certification, product assurance and other specialties quality factors into a preferred configuration to ensure mission success.
  5. Develops, maintains and identifies improvements for the planning, organization, implementation and monitoring of requirements management processes, tools, risk, issues, opportunity management and technology readiness assessment processes.

Skills

Required

  • Systems engineering
  • ground system software development
  • requirements analysis
  • system integration
  • system test
  • system verification
  • agile environment
  • U.S. Secret Security Clearance
  • Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology, Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, or Chemistry
  • 14+ years of engineering experience

Nice to have

  • Agile and Model Based Engineering processes
  • complete systems engineering lifecycle
  • orbital dynamics
  • RF communications
  • satellite links
  • transponder loading
  • military communication architectures
  • Satellite Bus and Payload Resource Management
  • MILSATCOM systems

What the JD emphasized

  • active U.S. Secret Security Clearance
  • 14+ years of engineering experience