Redwire Space

Sr System Engineer (Contractor)

Marlborough, Massachusetts, United States

Full Time

5 months ago

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Job description

Bring your passion for space!

Redwire is accelerating humanity’s expansion into space by delivering reliable, economical and sustainable infrastructure for future generations.

Our Redwire business unit in Marlborough, MA, is accelerating humanity's expansion into space through the design and manufacture of mission-critical, high reliability optical and navigational sensors for satellites providing guidance, navigation, situational awareness, and control capabilities. These technologies have supported nearly 50 years of space missions from NASA planetary missions as far-reaching as Pluto to national security missions.

Summary

We have a current opportunity for a Sr Systems Engineer (Contractor for a period of up to 12 months with the potential for extension), working from our Marlborough, MA office. This role will support a DoD application for our Star Tracker Navigational Sensor. In this role, you will take on requirements management in including review, decomposition, and mapping to qualification and acceptance testing criteria and methods. You will be instrumental in supporting test methods and procedures to ensure customer and self derived requirements are met. You will be responsible for related customer SDRL items such as plans and procedure documents, compliance reports or other areas that require attention.

Responsibilities:

Lead technical team through requirements for development, testing, verification, and validation
Help ensure product development focuses on a compliant product and successful CDR milestone.
Manage Interface Control Documents and communication between cross-functional teams.
Though none expected, an ability to support work-related travel.

Ideal Experience:

A bachelors degree in Systems, Aerospace, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field is required.
A minimum of 5 years in a system engineering role in space, missile, or aeronautical operations
Experience in writing technical reports compliant to customer-specified content and depth of analysis.
Familiar with the development and verification of embedded processor systems.
Experience working collaboratively with cross-functional teams.
Experience in assessing test reports, developing test plans, and refining test procedures.

Desired Skills:

Experience with space systems engineering including an understanding of space vehicle design, space system architecture development, and space missions and operations development.
Experience with NASA or DoD lifecycle reviews (e.g. SRR, PDR, CDR)
Can self-organize with minimal oversight.
Have the ability to coordinate and collaborate across engineering teams.
Experience with requirement tracking tools such as DOORs, Jama, R4J, or similar
Experience with workflow management tools such as Jira
Prior experience developing space systems for challenging environments and missions.
Experience participating in technical execution for systems development.
Experienced with camera-based systems and performance verification a plus.

Grow with us as we innovate the next generation capabilities for a new era of space exploration! We offer a highly competitive benefits package along with a commitment to our core values of Integrity, Innovation, Impact, Inclusion, and Excellence.

Don’t meet every single requirement above? No worries. We want people who can grow, collaborate and build a stronger team. We strive to build a diverse and inclusive culture, so if you’re excited about this job posting, we encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Redwire is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Redwire is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

All offers of employment at Redwire are contingent upon clear results of a thorough background check and your ability to provide proof of eligibility to work in the US. Note that some positions will also require US citizenship or ability to obtain a security clearance due to requirements of a classified program.

To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you 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 State. Learn more about the ITAR Click Here