Ground System Engineer

Booz Allen Hamilton•Colorado Springs, CO

17h•Remote

About The Position

Are you looking for an opportunity to combine your technical skills with big picture thinking to make an impact on national security space missions? You understand your customer’s environment and how to develop the right systems for their mission. Your ability to translate real-world needs into technical specifications and development requirements makes you an integral part of delivering a customer-focused engineering solution. If this sounds like you, come join Booz Allen’s new Remote Sensing Systems Engineering and Integration (SE&I) team to work on the military’s space programs. As a ground systems engineer on our team, you will work with Booz Allen colleagues and the military to develop and deploy the next generation of Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR) ground systems capabilities to deliver critical information to our warfighters to quickly win or even prevent future wars. Your client will trust you to develop technical requirements, Concept of Operations, Future Acquisition Plans, Interface Control Documents (ICDs), technical assessments, integration plans, verification plans, and digital mission and system models for satellite ground systems. You will grow your skills by researching new requirements, technologies, and threats and using innovative engineering methodologies and tools to create tomorrow’s solutions. Join us. The world can't wait.

Requirements

10+ years of experience with large-scale ground SE&I on national security space programs
5+ years of experience performing systems engineering analysis and developing systems engineering products for satellite systems or ground systems for command and control and data processing
Experience with the development of technical specifications, ICDs, ground architectures and designs, integration plans and schedules, and test plans
Experience integrating software systems for space, including multi-performer teams with different development schedules, lifecycles, and priorities
Experience planning and executing program reviews throughout the life cycle of the system
Knowledge of satellite ground system design, cloud architectures, DevOps and DevSecOps, software frameworks, communication and networking, data processing, exploitation, and dissemination, space system operations and tasking, mission planning, space-ground integration, or space system factory support
Knowledge of Agile methodologies
Ability to travel up to 25% of the time
Top Secret clearance
Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field

Nice To Haves

Experience managing traceability of requirements and developing testable criteria, system validation and verification, and analysis
Experience performing systems engineering, integration, and testing on space-based remote sensing systems, including SBIRS, Next Generation OPIR, FORGE, STSS, HBTSS, DMSP, WSF-M, and EWS
Experience using a Model-Based Systems Engineering approach to manage system definitions and technical baselines
Knowledge of DoD 5000.01 and 5000.02
Knowledge of systems engineering standards, including IEEE 15288.1 and IEEE 15288.2
Knowledge of network architecture
Master’s degree in an Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or CS field
INCOSE Systems Engineering Professional Certification such as ASEP, CSEP, or ESEP Certification

Responsibilities

Develop technical requirements, Concept of Operations, Future Acquisition Plans, Interface Control Documents (ICDs), technical assessments, integration plans, verification plans, and digital mission and system models for satellite ground systems.
Research new requirements, technologies, and threats.
Use innovative engineering methodologies and tools to create tomorrow’s solutions.