Staff Mission SEIT Engineer

Join a team where your impact reaches beyond the stars! At Terran Orbital youre not just part of the system youre a vital force propelling our mission forward. As trailblazers in satellite manufacturing and aerospace innovation we shatter boundaries daily to deliver groundbreaking solutions that power our nations defense and commercial missions. We are a unique fast growing and trusted team dedicated to swiftly and efficiently designing building launching and operating state of the art satellites for advanced mission constellations. If youre driven by purpose inspired by challenges and ready to leave your mark on the universe youll find a home and endless opportunities for growth here. Together lets redefine what is possible in orbit and beyond!

Summary

Terran Orbital is seeking an experienced Staff Mission Systems Engineering Integration & Test (SEIT) Engineer to join our dynamic team. Reporting to the Sr. Director Platforms & Mission Engineering the Staff Mission SEIT Engineer will lead work closely with and be an integral part of a multidisciplinary team leading the cradle-to-grave technical definition of all aspects of a space domain solutionfrom direct customer engagement during the business development and capture stages to deriving technical requirements from customer mission capability. Mission SEIT Engineers at Terran Orbital support the end-to-end mission space of key technological importance to the company. Mission SEIT Engineers will architect and drive key elements for missions capabilities system functional behavior and system performance to support innovative high-capability high-reliability products and programs.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Supports customer engagements and related engineering mission architecture and analysis products to shape customer requirements at the mission level and provide guidance at lower levels of abstraction
• Derives technical requirements from customer defined mission level needs identify and manage technical risks and opportunities
• Perform systems engineering across all aspects of developing a space domain solution that may impact one or multiple missions and programs from direct customer engagement that drives technical approaches to deriving requirements and architectures for mission capability needs
• Designing and developing optimal mission architectures and detailed solutions to complex space domain challenges for various remote sensing RF and optical applications
• Utilizing Subject Matter Expertise and applying surge support for the troubleshooting of focus areas
• Ensuring knowledge capture and knowledge transfer by working with and mentoring engineering members
• Engaging and supporting company tactical and strategic special projects
• Mission Concept of Operations refinement mapping and application
• Mission and system-level design activities to include remote sensing or communication architectures
• System Integration Verification and Validation definition and execution
• Mission Operations and systems tasking
• Support proposal/capture efforts through technical engagement writing and supporting analysis

Qualifications and Skills

• Bachelors degree in engineering or a related field is required
• 8 years of experience in mission engineering and analyses working with multifunctional teams within space-domain missions
• Experience defining and executing Mission ConOps and decomposing OpsCon
• Has technical leadership experience on a large program for the full Product Lifecycle leading to a positive product outcome.
• Experience with risk issue and opportunity management
• Proven ability to deliver effective communication verbally written and through well-crafted presentations across all levels of an organization including executive leadership
• Ability to self-govern with minimal supervision establish workload priorities and utilize efficient time management practices to achieve programmatic or strategic initiatives
• U.S. Citizenship with ability to obtain and maintain DoD clearance

Additional Differentiators

• Engineering Masters Degree in space systems
• Experience and success with space-based encrypted communications and radar architectures and devices as well as knowledge of standards for geospatial intelligence data and products
• Demonstrated experience being a technical focal across multiple design authorities
• Demonstrate experience and success with space-based remote sensing missions including Optical or RF systems
• Experience with MBSE Modeling & Simulation for system and mission level solutions
• Experience and success with space-based reliability availability maintainability and safety
• Demonstrated experience and success with space-based optical systems and applications
• Familiarity with satellite system budgets including mass power delta-V link and data budgets

Benefits

• 100% Company-paid comprehensive medical dental and vision coverage for you and your dependents
• 401(k) Match
• Flexible Time Off (FTO)
• Education Reimbursement
• Competitive Paid Parental Leave

About Terran Orbital

Terran Orbital is a leading manufacturer of satellite products primarily serving the aerospace and defense industries. Terran Orbital provides end-to-end satellite solutions by combining satellite design production launch planning mission operations and on-orbit support to meet the needs of the most demanding military civil and commercial customers. Learn more at

Physical Demands

An employee must meet the physical demands described to perform the essential functions of this job performing the duties of this job the employee is routinely required to sit or stand for long durations of time in addition to bending reaching and walking. This would require the ability to lift or move objects up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift or move objects up to 25 pounds. This position is generally sedentary with substantial computer usage.

Work Environment

The job operates in a professional office environment but in a manufacturing company. This job routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers phones photocopiers and scanners.

Disclaimers

To comply with U.S. Government space technology export regulations the applicant must be a U.S. citizen lawful permanent resident of the U.S. protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3) or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of addition please note that this position may require a current United States National Security clearance or eligibility for such a clearance.

Terran Orbital is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We consider applicants without regard to race color religion age national origin ancestry ethnicity gender gender identity gender expression sexual orientation marital status veteran status disability genetic information or membership in any other group protected by federal state or local law.

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