SIGINT Flight Engineer

XMSTART is looking to add an experienced and strategic full-time SIGINT Flight Engineer to our team, in Aurora, CO. This position is 100% onsite .

Requirements

Responsibilities:

• Provide Systems Engineering and Technical Advisory (SETA) services focused on SIGINT collection systems and systems engineering.
• Represent the government in executing spacecraft integration, test, launch, and on-orbit operations.
• Conduct anomaly support, launch and mission readiness, and end-to-end space systems architecture analysis.
• Maintain close communications with the program acquisition office and customer engineering organizations providing recommendations on risk level of spacecraft activities.
• Oversee day-to-day execution of mission operations and processes to ensure proper attention to health, safety, and effective use of national resources.
• Provide launch and mission readiness subject matter expertise to operations and engineering including readiness for launch, spacecraft initialization, and transition to mission.

Qualifications:

• Experience in spacecraft, payload, and launch vehicle engineering as well as mission readiness
• process, control gates, and associated entry/exit criteria.
• SIGINT systems engineering expertise, and significant space and ground systems domain knowledge
• Technical familiarity with SIGINT system's payloads, subsystems, and technical capabilities
• Self-starter, proactively addresses customer requirements with no supervision; readily defines
• solutions for broad, abstract topics
• Polished communicator (written/verbal); impeccable interpersonal skills and personal judgment

Preferred Qualifications:

• 4-years' experience in initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, controlling, and/or closing DoD or Intelligence Community projects or Programs
• Real-time operations experience as a spacecraft operator or spacecraft engineer, familiar with space operations/policies
• Familiar with Digital Engineering/Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and associated tools, Agile development, cloud technologies
• Contract management/COTR support experience
• Experience with Jira, Confluence

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) or relevant field and nine (9) years or more experience; Master's Degree in STEM or relevant field and seven (7) years or more experience

Security Clearance Requirements:

• Must be a US Citizen with with an Active TS/SCI with Polygraph

Qualification

Bachelor's Degree