Junior Space Systems Engineer Job Listing at SPA in Huntsville, AL (Job ID 2025-20046)

Description

Qualifications

Required:

• Active TS/SCI clearance
• Bachelor's degree in an engineering or STEM discipline, preferably Systems Engineering with the following level of equivalency:
  • 6 years of relevant program/project experience in lieu of a Bachelor's degree
• 0-3 years of experience in space system design, development, qualification, production, deployment, and/or operations
• Rudimentary understanding of space threat environment, joint domain targeting, planning, and Command and Control (C2) activities.
• Basic understanding of DoD and Air Force intelligence capabilities, processes, and procedures
• Basic understanding of space systems engineering, space systems design, development, integration and test, and transition to operations
• Experience assisting in the development and definition of technical requirements
• Basic skill in Modeling and Simulation (M&S) methods and techniques
• Basic understanding of Configuration Management and Change Control, Risk Management and Opportunity Exploitation, Quality Assurance, Requirements Development and Traceability, Design Maturation, Independent Verification and Validation, Analysis of Alternatives, Facility Planning and Layout, Production Design, Test and Evaluation
• Novice skills in Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) tools and techniques, Cost Benefit Analysis, Failure Modes, Effectiveness and Criticality Analysis (FMECA), Made vs. Buy Analysis, Supply Chain Risk Management, Quality Assurance, Statistical Quality Control, Continuous Process Improvement, Engineering Changer Proposals (ECPs), and Multi-Attribute Utility Analysis
• Reports to designated work location in Huntsville, AL, up to full time, based on the needs of the customer

Desired:

• Active or prior SAP access
• Active USSF/SSC/SZ or BC SAP access
• Current Counterintelligence (CI) polygraph or willingness to sit for one
• Specific direct experience supporting space system design, development, qualification, production, deployment and/or operations tasks in the U.S. Air Force and/or the U.S. Space Force space system acquisition and/or operational environments 
• Specific direct knowledge and experience supporting program/project management-related activity associated with Space Domain Awareness (SDA), Space Situational Awareness (SSA), Space Control, Space System Communications, satellite design, launch operations and space system operations 
• Journeyman skills in MS Office Suite applications, especially MS Project and MS SharePoint, CAM/CAM tools, Cameo System Modeler, and SysML applications (e.g., Enovia, Catia Systems Engineer, 3DX) 
• Basic understanding of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) tools and techniques, requirements management tool, such as DOORS, engineering modeling tools, such as MATLAB, and engineering management tools, such as Jira, Confluence, and/or other similar program/project management tools

Junior Space System Engineers assist Program Office leadership performing requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability, and analysis. Will work with program and project managers to support the design, development, and instantiation of space systems and advanced system capabilities. Successful candidates we seek for this important opportunity will help enable advanced capabilities and proactive protective understanding of how space-based assets and programs operate, interact, and serve our highest priority national defense.

Key duties associated with this role include but are not limited to the following:

• Knowledge of space control mission planning, electronic support, signal processing and communications, and CONOPS development.
• Support the coordination and management of exercises and operations training.
• Support the development and preparation of space system documentation, including Systems Engineering Management Plans (SEMPs), Quality Assurance Plans (QAPs), Risk Management Plans (RMPs), Test and Evaluation Master Plans (TEMPs), Configuration Management Plans, (CMPs), Integrated Master Plans (IMPs), Program Master Plans (PMPs), Integrated Master Schedules (IMPs), Integrated Program Baselines (PBs), Integrated Control Documents (ICDs), Software Development Plans (SDPs), and/or System Operation Control Plans.