Space Systems SoftwareProgram Manager
Albuquerque, NM - USA
Job Summary
Space Systems Integration (SSI) is a fast-growing engineering company that provides aerospace solutions to a variety of government and commercial customers. Our employees are forward-thinking self-directed individuals who are committed to solving our customers technical challenges.
SSI is seekinga Space Systems Software Engineer/Program Managerfor a role in Albuquerque NM.
This handpicked candidate must possess technical expertise and experience with developing designing building and integrating space system software to include in the space vehicle and ground systems to meet overall mission this position you will provide System Engineering Technical Assistance (SETA) to our Customer. A successful candidate should be a leader and problem solver with a proven ability to deliver superior results as part of a high-performing team in a high-profile fast-paced environment.
You will work in a small highly empowered team where every team member is directly responsible for the success of the program. Engineering responsibilities focus on software deliverables that span technology domains including space rated hardware software sensors and processors in an extremely fast-paced responsive development environment. This SETA candidate will provide both technical and programmatic support on software and architecture development integration and testing for satellites ground systems and/or subsystems to improve program office insight into state-of-the art IC DoD commercial and legacy space vehicle systems and C2 requirements and capabilities. You must apply advanced principles theories and concepts for highly classified systems while also effectively communicating complex results with management and executive leadership.
Role and Responsibilities:
- Supports software design interpretation and analysis of technical solutions to complex projects.
- Leads or supports technical programs projects or tasks whose technical complexity requires engineering oversight specializing in software.
- Ensures completion of programs projects or tasks within estimated time frames and budget constraints.
- Provides input to the government customer concerning risks to performance schedule and budget due to either proposed contractor plans or contractors execution of accepted plans.
- Ensure the quality of the program project or task deliverables meet or exceed standards or metrics and assesses such deliverables to ensure that the final deliverables will meet the warfighting purpose for which they are intended.
- Serves as program advisory lead for extremely time critical technical projects test projects or tasks requiring appropriate level of technical expertise.
- Assists acquisition planning market research and drafting technical requirements and documents.
- Coordinates with internal and external stakeholders to verify program needs and identify to meet project goals.
- Helps the government assess the technical sufficiency cost quality and timely delivery of program deliverables.
- Confers with the software team to provide technical advice and to assist with problem resolution as needed.
- Drafts reviews and edits final program reports documents and briefings.
- Supports acquisition planning and development of documents required for systems acquisition.
- Coordinates with multiple partners/agencies to ensure system engineering communities support software delivery milestones.
- Tracks and advises design trades and associated cost schedule and technical impacts to requirements.
- Work on high-visibility or mission critical aspects of a given program and perform all functional duties independently
- Translate complex ideas and data into simple actionable. recommendations or easily differentiated courses of action
- Communicate clearly concisely and with technical accuracyoral and written.
Required Qualifications:
- Minimum ten (10) years DoD/IC or relevant industry work experience.
- An applicable engineering degree from a program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) or possess a Professional Engineering license.
- Relevant MA/MS/ME degree.
- Experience in the development and fielding software for space systems to include software architectures and requirements development for satellites and ground systems.
- Understanding of space operational environment and corresponding mission user needs.
- Knowledge of space system engineering development and manufacturing.
- Experience in DoD program management including program development and transition.
- Experience with Integrated Master Schedules and risk management.
- Experience with Statements of Work (SOW) and Performance Work Statements (PWS).
- Active TOP SECRET clearance with sensitive compartmentalized information (SCI) and special access program (SAP) eligibility (no less than 2 years total SAP and/or SCI environment experience with 1-year total within last 5 years) and willingness to submit to a Counter-Intelligence polygraph.
- Candidate must maintain a TS/SCI clearance as a condition of employment.
- Full-time on site in vicinity of Kirtland AFB NM and will require travel up to 30% of time within the continental United States
Desired Qualifications:
- Five (5) years of relevant DoD and/or Industry work experience with SAP and/or SCI.
- System Engineering Technical Assistance (SETA) to Government program office.
- Experience with rapid prototyping.
- Experience with integrated air space and cyberspace capabilities.
- Experience developing deploying and maintaining ground mission planning architecture and software.
- Experience with ACAT I/II level acquisition programs.
- Experience in planning and executing test campaigns for space systems.
- Fluency with IC organizations.
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