Supports the GPS Positioning, Navigation, and Timing enterprise systems engineering and integration team. Responsibilities include integrated system design, dependency analysis, engineering and data modeling, system performance testing, data analysis, risk and opportunity management, and coordination across space, ground, and user segments for DoD programs.
Senior Systems Engineer
- Active Secret Clearance Required
El Segundo/Los Angeles, CA - (Hybrid)
Description:
Apply to join the Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Enterprise Systems Engineering & Integration (SE&I) team. SE&I provides engineering, integration, technical analysis, and subject matter expertise support to the US Space Force and Department of Defense (DoD) agencies.
As a member of our PNT SE&I team, you’ll work in a fast-paced environment with government personnel and system developers to ensure that Global Positioning System (GPS) remains the gold standard for positioning, navigation, and timing. A successful candidate will collaborate and communicate with the SE&I leadership team to ensure processes and products are delivered with quality and professionalism.
- Duties
- Provide technical expertise and systems integration support to ensure an optimal integrated GPS System design
- Contribute to the overarching approach and processes for integrating, synchronizing, tracking and analyzing dependencies across programmatic and organizational boundaries
- Develop engineering and data models and populate them with up-to-date information to enable automated integration analyses
- Provide technical support for test activities that characterize system performance
- Perform and present data analysis that drive decisions on government programs
- Support GPS Enterprise Risk & Opportunities management
- Qualifications
- Active Secret Clearance
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, mathematics, physics or equivalent technical discipline and nine (9) years of systems integration and systems engineering related or equivalent experience
- Active Secret Clearance
- Experience working across space, ground, and user segment organizations to coordinate and identify system requirements and key performance parameters to ensure end-to-end mission performance requirements are met
- Experience with system architecture development
- Strong interpersonal skills to enable working, interfacing, and interrelating with diverse personnel and dynamic teams
- Must be able to work well in multi-team setting, and willing to take on additional technical and administrative tasks/duties as needed
- Space vehicle as well as other GPS related experience
- Experience and familiarity working with DoD acquisition organizations
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