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Space Systems Engineer – TS/SCI Clearance w/CI Poly Required

Location

Chantilly, VA

Job Description

Leffler Consulting is seeking a Space Systems Engineer to join our team in Chantilly, VA. Work will be performed on-site with the customer and requires an active TS/SCI clearance with an adjudicated polygraph. The engineering professional will perform system or enterprise level systems engineering across the life cycle on complex space systems acquisition processes. The candidate will provide expert advice and manage systems engineering processes and implementation for program office developed collection system, including space vehicle, payloads, and associated ground command and control elements. The position includes requirements management, interface definition, customer engagement, and proposal technical evaluation support.

Duties

• Manage and develop requirements from higher level Enterprise governing documents to the Segment level and lower
• Support relevant specification development and test planning activities across the enterprise and with development contractors
• Lead coordination and completion of segment specification sell-off, along with other verification and validation activities
• Coordinate across the Systems Program Office (SPO) for any proposed specification changes and facilitate integration of changes into the baseline
• Leverage a variety of software tools including DOORs, and perform analyses and automation of tasks
• Support customer design review, providing technical insight to evaluate developer design
• Lead integration of new capabilities to the program baseline
• Manage external interface definition and coordination of changes with external stakeholders and developer
• Provide technical insight to evaluations of developer proposals
• Support customer in CONOPs development
• Support initialization and on-orbit calibration and validation activities
• Support ground site integration and test activities
• Liaise with mission analysis and acquisition teams to ensure completeness across the program
• Develop productive relationships with development contractor counterparts, functional counterparts, and other spacecraft, payload, and ground subject matter experts
• Identify and assess segment-level impacts of new capabilities, including across specification, internal and external interfaces, and facilitate integration into the current program baseline
• Advise and mentor customer personnel regarding Segment architecture, specification, and verification and validation
• Identify risks to mission closure in the collection segment and evaluate proposed burndown plans
• Other duties as specified by the customer

Skill Set:

• Excellent interpersonal, leadership, team building, and problem-solving skills with a demonstrated ability to be independent and effective in a government/contractor team environment
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Demonstrated sustained superior performance

Required Education

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM (science, technical, engineering, math) or related discipline with emphasis on MSBE, and at least 5 years of relevant experience

Required Experience

• Basic understanding of DOD/IC satellite systems and architectures
• Solid understanding of DoD/IC acquisition and program management processes
• Experience in multiple aspects of the program systems engineering life cycle to aid the customer’s SPO in the acquisition, verification and validation, and initialization of current programs

Desired Education

• Refer to Required Education

Founded in 2001, Leffler Consulting is a women-owned small business (WOSB) headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia. We provide financial management and life-cycle budget and cost support to our nation’s most critical programs in the Intelligence Community (IC) and Department of Defense (DoD). Leffler Consulting specializes in all areas of financial management, audit readiness, and process improvement and controls while also providing a broad array of support functions critical to supporting the mission requirements of our customers. We offer competitive salaries and a generous benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, and disability coverage, paid leave, paid holidays, an employee assistance program, and an employee referral program.