Principal Software Systems Engineer

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $75 - $95 / hour

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Red Canyon Engineering & Software

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51 - 200 employees

🎖️ Defense

💼 Consulting

🏨 Hospitality

Defense • Consulting • Hospitality

Red Canyon Engineering & Software is a company that develops cutting-edge technology to help humankind explore space and other planets, as well as to advance renewable resources on Earth and rejuvenate low-income areas through the HUBZone program. The company is involved in important missions such as exploring Jupiter’s poles, the next Mars lander, asteroid sample return missions, and building human spacecraft for the Moon and Mars. Their clients include leading government agencies like NASA, NOAA, and DOD, along with top aerospace and technology companies such as SpaceX, Lockheed Martin, and Honeywell. Red Canyon attracts top engineers passionate about space exploration and technological advancements.

📋 Description

• Drive development of customer satellite systems with a focus on flight software delivery • Lead the full development lifecycle from requirements definition through validation, verification, and operations • Provide autonomous solutions to complex problems through direct work or delegation under the Systems Engineering Manager • Hold project and subject matter responsibility and authority • Perform systems engineering tasks for satellite software systems and the heritage platform • Define, decompose, flow down, and manage Software and Avionics Subsystem requirements • Conduct system design and trade studies • Develop verification matrices and perform buy-off/sell-off, test planning, and analysis planning • Ensure systems engineering processes and requirements traces/RVTMs are followed • Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to meet technical requirements • Resolve and troubleshoot flight software anomalies • Participate in cross-functional engineering and integration planning and execution • Support spacecraft product roadmap development, including design adjustments, schedules, and cost targets • Support spacecraft customization processes for customer mission needs • Build, maintain, and evolve spacecraft products • Promote cost savings through reuse of heritage platform designs and manufacturing infrastructure

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in STEM (Science, Technical, Engineering, Math) or related scientific areas • A minimum of 15 years with a bachelor's degree, or 12 years with a master's degree • Proven track-record of working with aerospace software systems, from conceptual designs and tradeoffs through detailed design, development, integration, test, deployment, and operations • Proven track-record of leading multi-disciplinary teams to solve problems • Familiarity with space mission architectures extending beyond the satellite platform, including launch, flight operations, mission CONOPS, user interfaces, etc. • Experience with systems architecture, requirements definition and decomposition, and requirements verification and validation, e.g. Requirements Verification and Traceability Matrices • Experience with Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) tools and methods • Experience with requirements management tools (DOORS or similar) • Experience leading and/or performing analyses for affordability, safety, reliability, maintainability, testability, human systems integration, survivability, vulnerability, susceptibility, system security, regulatory, certification, product assurance, or other specialties engineering disciplines • MUST BE A US CITIZEN

🏖️ Benefits

• Company contribution towards medical benefit packages • 401(k) contribution upon eligibility • Profit Share Bonus • Performance bonuses