Systems Engineer IV – Space Vehicle Systems Engineer

Arcfield•Louisville, CO

About The Position

The Mission Systems Engineer role is critical to the development of Orion Space Solutions products and programs. This critical role is responsible for all aspects of systems design excellence at Orion Space Solutions, on complex spacecraft and payload products. You will be considered a systems engineering technical authority within OSS. The role involves performing systems engineering activities in all stages of product design, from customer requirements derivation, through design, verification and validation, AI&T (Assembly, Integration and Test), and product launch. You will derive and manage requirements at all levels of complex space systems, sub-systems and components. Using a holistic approach, you will design, develop, evaluate and modify end-to-end systems and system-oriented products through their entire life cycle. You will generate quantifiable requirements based on customer description, system planning and design, and acquisition logistics. You will also author and design verification and validation methods and document them through procedures. Translating high-level product development strategies into system requirement specifications and working with other cross-functional teams to develop derived-level design implementation requirements is also a key part of this role. You will establish and coordinate the development of standards, practices, and procedures as related to the overall product development timeline. Additionally, you will participate in design reviews of components (hardware and software) to ensure applicability to the current system and traceability of requirements through compliance verification and validation. Reviewing test plans/procedures and ensuring they meet the objectives of the contractual requirements and participating in the testing process to validate requirements are also expected. You will participate in and contribute to Risk Review and Configuration Control Boards. You will act as the Systems Lead for a dedicated subsystem (Mechanical, Electrical, Software) and manage Interface Control Documentation, specifically payload-to-bus interfaces. Finally, you will organize, prepare and drive execution of customer-facing milestone design reviews: SRR, PDR, CDR.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or higher in a relevant engineering field plus 8-10 years, MS plus 6-8 years, or PhD plus 0-2 year of professional experience in systems engineering for high-reliability space & aerospace applications.
Extensive experience with systems engineering development methods on complex product architectures.
Experience supporting programs and products through all phases of development – from requirements derivation and development to sustainment.
Experience with aerospace requirements management tools (DOORS, Jama, or similar).

Nice To Haves

Experience developing and implementing architectures for variety of space and aerospace customers: DoW (national defense), NASA (civil space) and commercial customers.

Responsibilities

Perform systems engineering activities in all stages of product design, from customer requirements derivation, through design, verification and validation, AI&T (Assembly, Integration and Test), and product launch.
Derive and manage requirements at all levels of complex space systems, sub-systems and components.
Using a holistic approach, designs, develops, evaluates and modifies end-to-end systems and system-oriented products through their entire life cycle.
Generates quantifiable requirements based on customer description, system planning and design, and acquisition logistics.
Author and design verification and validation methods and document them through procedures.
Translate high level product development strategies into system requirement specifications and work with other cross-functional teams to develop derived level design implementation requirements.
Establish and coordinate development of standards, practices, and procedures as related to the overall product development timeline.
Participates in design reviews of components (hardware and software) to ensure applicability to the current system and traceability of requirements through compliance verification and validation.
Reviews test plans/procedures and ensures they meet the objectives of the contractual requirements and participates in the testing process to validate requirements.
Participate in and contribute to Risk Review and Configuration Control Boards.
Act as the Systems Lead for a dedicated subsystem (Mechanical, Electrical, Software).
Management of Interface Control Documentation, specifically payload-to-bus interfaces.
Organize, prepare and drive execution of customer facing milestone design reviews: SRR, PDR, CDR.