CesiumAstro
Senior Spacecraft Systems Engineer - Payload
Westminster, CO · Senior · Full-time
Work authorization required$134k-$161kDetected 6 days ago
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About the role
- CesiumAstro considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the role and associated responsibilities, a candidate's work experience, education/training, and key skills.
- CesiumAstro is an Equal Opportunity employer.
Responsibilities
- Define and manage hardware, software, electrical, mechanical, and data interfaces between system elements.
- Identify technical risks, requirement gaps, ambiguities, and design issues early in the development lifecycle.
- Support system architecture development, technical trade studies, and engineering analyses to evaluate design alternatives and optimize system performance.
- Partner with Integration & Test teams to plan, coordinate, and support system integration and verification activities.
- Support technical planning, Program Increment (PI) planning, staffing assessments, and engineering execution activities.
- Ensure requirements maintain end-to-end traceability to customer requirements, system architecture, and Concept of Operations (CONOPS).
- Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to refine requirements for completeness, feasibility, technical accuracy, and manufacturability.
- Support requirements management, configuration management, baseline control, and engineering change activities.
- Develop system verification and validation strategies, including verification methods (test, analysis, demonstration, and inspection), acceptance criteria, and verification levels aligned with program requirements.
- Develop and maintain verification documentation, verification cross-reference matrices (VCRM), requirements traceability matrices, and verification evidence packages.
Requirements
- Master's degree in a related technical discipline with typically 3-6 years of relevant experience
- or PhD in a related technical discipline with typically 0-3 years of relevant experience.
- Strong knowledge of systems engineering principles and the systems development lifecycle.
- Knowledge of systems architecture, interface management, systems integration, and configuration management.
- If you are looking for hands-on, interactive, and autonomous work, CesiumAstro is the place for you.
Compensation
- $134k-$161k
Visa & Work Authorization
- citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U
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