Sda Ground Systems Engineer

Job Description
Join our team to support theSpace Development Agency (SDA) an organization that is transforming defense space acquisitions through leveraging commercial capabilities and processes to develop and operate the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture. We are hiring a ground systems engineer to support SDA’ operations. The candidate will provide expertise to government program managers across multiple satellite designs. The candidate will review designs, test procedures and provide feedback and recommendations to ensure individual satellites will meet SDA’s architecture needs.
The candidate will have experience in satellite and ground operations and leverage this to ensure multiple vendor’s software and hardware designs will be successfully integrated through a common ground operations control station.Duties include:
Coordinate the development of satellite system requirements;
develop enterprise, system, functional, performance, and interface requirements;
and consider the impactof the satellites’ requirements to the ground system, including ground entry point acquisitions, operations center set up and maintenance, and ground software solutions
Works with development teams at the messaging and system function level to ensure all equities of design are in working order end-to-end, and translate well to inform testing and checkout for promotion through DevSecOps.
Assess technical maturity and risk of necessary changes and updates to ground systems to enable overall architecture capabilities
Oversee integration and test of satellites into the SDA’s ground system network design and with the other satellite vendors to create a mesh network
Maintains active awareness of baseline requirements, interfaces, and integration touchpoints to ensure the system progresses through all milestones and the Tranche achieves operations, transition, and system closure.
Applies problem solving skills to identify and respond to system gaps proactively.