Senior Ground System Expert / Systems Engineer

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Are you looking for an opportunity to combine your technical skills with big picture thinking to make an impact in the DoD? You understand your customer’s environment and how to develop the right systems for their mission. Your ability to interpret current capabilities and translate into measurable test criteria to ensure mission needs are met makes you an integral part of delivering a customer focused engineering solution.

As an engineer on the Maxar team, you’ll work with the U.S. Space Force to develop and rapidly deploy the next generation of resilient Missile Warning (MW), Tactical Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (TISR), and Environmental Monitoring (EM) capabilities to deter attacks and provide critical information to our warfighters to defeat our enemies in battle.  Your customer will trust you to not only test, analyze, evaluate, validate, and verify these systems, but also identify areas requiring urgent mitigation up front and early to develop this system with advanced technology solutions.  Grow your skills by merging innovative engineering methodologies and cross-disciplinary coordination to create tomorrow’s solutions. Join our team and create the future of Remote Sensing in the Space Force.  Due to the nature of work performed within this facility, U.S. citizenship is required.

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Build Your Career:

We’re serious about professional development and continuing education at Maxar. We offer everyone the opportunity to define their own career trajectory. Our group has some amazing resources at its disposal specifically for this purpose. You will work with your direct supervisor and/or a mentor to set appropriate goals and design a plan to help you make consistent progress. 

Qualifications:

• US citizenship and a Secret clearance.

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering, mathematics, computer science, or equivalent technical discipline.

• 3+ years of systems engineering experience of space-related (space, ground, software, hardware system) Major Defense Acquisition Programs.

• Can work onsite at Boulder at least 2-3 days weekly and onsite at Buckley as needed.

• Experience with the development of technical specifications, interface control documents, integration plans and schedules, and inter-service support agreements.

• Experience with managing traceability of requirements, developing testable criteria, system validation and verification, and analysis.

• System Administrator, or system test background that can conduct system/network configuration management.

• Ability to define, develop, maintain, large scale system specifications, capability requirements, and acquisition documentation.

• Ability to communicate and establish collaborative relationships with government clients, Federally Funded Research and Developmental Centers (FFRDC), and associate contractor teammates to achieve program goals.

• Can run Power Shell scripts to ensure the baseline integrity.

Nice If You Have:

• Current TS/SCI clearance.

• Master’s degree in an engineering, mathematics, physics, or equivalent technical discipline.

• INCOSE Systems Engineering Professional certifications (ASEP, CSEP, or ESEP).

• Experience performing systems engineering, integration, and test on space-based remote sensing systems.

• Experience with planning and executing program reviews throughout the lifecycle of the system.

• Experience with VMware, RHEL, Openshift Container Platform.

• Experience with physical and virtual networking.

• Experience with Powershell scripting.

• Knowledge of DevSecOps process automation.

• Knowledge of missile warning mission and SBIRS.

Clearance:

Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

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Our salary ranges are market-driven and set to allow for flexibility. Individual pay will be competitive based on a candidate’s unique set of knowledge, skills, and geographic diversity, with earnings potential commensurate with experience. The range for this position is:

$80,000.00 - $132,000.00 annually.

 

Maxar employees must follow all applicable Maxar policies and COVID-19 requirements as well as those of Maxar customers and third parties. Individual job requirements may vary, and Maxar reserves the right to modify its policies and requirements as it deems appropriate in accordance with applicable law.

Maxar Technologies values diversity in the workplace and is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.