Senior Mission Systems Engineer

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🏈 Alabama, District of Columbia – Remote

🏈 Alabama – Remote 🏛️ District of Columbia – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⚙️ Systems Engineer

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📋 Description

• Serve as the primary Systems Engineer for an assigned Mach-TB mission from concept through post-mission review • Lead development and management of stakeholder requirements and ensure traceability from mission objectives to experiment design • Develop and maintain Verification & Validation (V&V) plans and track compliance across mission elements • Assess mission feasibility and provide technical recommendations to the Program Office • Coordinate technical integration between experiment payload teams and launch vehicle/range providers • Review experiment designs, interface control documents (ICDs), and integration procedures for technical compliance • Identify and resolve interface conflicts, technical risks, and integration challenges across multi-experiment missions • Support SRR, PDR, CDR, IRR, and MRR integration reviews and provide actionable technical feedback • Act as technical point of contact for government customers, experiment PIs, and range safety personnel • Develop and present technical briefings, white papers, and status reports to program leadership and government sponsors • Facilitate technical working groups and interface meetings • Collaborate with the broader Mach-TB Systems Engineering team to ensure cross-mission consistency and capture lessons learned • Identify, document, and track technical risks and issues using program-standard risk management tools • Develop mitigation strategies and work with stakeholders to implement corrective actions • Escalate technical issues appropriately and resolve them within program schedule constraints

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in systems engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics, or related STEM field • 10+ years of experience in systems engineering roles • Experience with requirements development and management • Experience with verification and validation planning and execution • Experience with system integration and interface management • Experience supporting flight test programs, hypersonic systems, or space/launch vehicle programs • Familiarity with DoD acquisition processes and program lifecycle milestones • Strong technical writing and communication skills • Ability to brief senior government and program leadership • Active DoD Secret clearance • Top Secret clearance preferred or ability to obtain • Experience with hypersonic flight test programs or high-speed vehicle systems preferred • Familiarity with Mach-TB, MACH-TB 2.0, or related DoD hypersonic test infrastructure programs preferred • Experience working with NSWC Crane, DARPA, MDA, or Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) programs preferred • Knowledge of range safety processes, flight termination systems, or launch range operations preferred • Experience with model-based systems engineering (MBSE) tools such as Cameo, DOORS, or Rhapsody preferred • INCOSE CSEP or ESEP certification preferred • Experience in a multi-payload or rideshare mission environment preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Primarily telework-eligible • Approximately 25% travel to program sites, test facilities, and customer locations

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