systems Engineer
El Segundo, CA

Job Description

The Remote Sensing (RS) Systems Engineering & Integration (SE&I) team in El Segundo, CA has an immediate need for a Systems Engineer focused on requirements development and management activities across the RS Enterprise. This individual will have experience in Department of Defense (DoD) Space-Based systems. Candidate will provide SE&I support to the SBIRS and Weather Enterprise programs in support of the Space and Missile Systems Center Remote Sensing Directorate (SMC/RS). Candidate will support requirements development and management activities to include requirements traceability analysis, change impact analysis, technical baseline integration, verification planning and execution, and risk management. Candidate should have experience with space and ground systems (especially at SMC), system acquisition, and systems engineering lifecycle. Major duties of the position include:

* Ensuring effective requirements integration across space and ground, hardware and software, and all other aspects of systems and organizations within the Enterprise.
* Maintaining the technical baseline, including identifying and documenting system specification and interface requirement traceability to sell-off verification and test events.
* Interacting with the prime contractor and government leads to ensure that all system requirements and interfaces are consistent and valid across the SMC/RS Enterprise.
* Managing multiple system requirements baselines, and an integrated Enterprise baseline.
* Supporting customer in defining, capturing, and maintaining the technical, schedule, and cost risk data throughout the system lifecycle as well as developing risk mitigation courses of action and assessing impacts of risks and proposed changes.
* Developing, documenting, executing, integrating and evolving systems engineering processes as required to enable effective SMC/RS systems engineering and integration efforts.
* Assessing proposed baseline changes for impacts to requirements and verification.
* Integrating activities over the lifecycle of systems within the Enterprise including pre-contractual, development and production, as well as operations and sustainment.
* Supporting the customer with verification tracking to ensure the developer and source requirements are adequately verified.
* Developing acquisition-related briefings, plans, papers, and other documentation in support of SMC/RS decision making.
* Collaborating with prime contractors, other support contractors, government civilians, and members of the U.S. Air Force.