AI Systems Engineer
Udemy
Lead Systems Engineer, Spacecraft Bus
L3Harris Technologies
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Denver • Colorado, Florida, New York • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $108,500 - $232,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
TypeScript
About the role
- Provide technical leadership and guidance for the design, development, and integration of the spacecraft bus, ensuring compliance with mission requirements and industry standards
- Collaborate with internal program teams, including systems engineering, payload engineering, and mission operations, to ensure seamless integration of the spacecraft bus with other subsystems and payloads
- Work closely with external bus suppliers to oversee and review the development and delivery of the spacecraft bus and engineering work products, ensuring that all technical specifications, performance criteria, and schedule milestones are met
- Lead and participate in design reviews, including Preliminary Design Reviews (PDR), Critical Design Reviews (CDR), and Test Readiness Reviews (TRR)
- Oversee the integration and testing of the spacecraft bus, including environmental testing (vibration, thermal vacuum, EMC) and functional testing
- Lead and/or participate in failure investigations, driving to root cause and implementation of corrective and preventative actions
- Identify, assess, and mitigate technical risks and develop contingency plans
- Prepare and review technical documentation, including design specifications, interface control documents, test plans, and test reports
- Collaborate with other Bus Lead Engineers to share lessons learned, implement best practices and continuous improvement
- Ensure engineering excellence through consistent and repeatable bus systems engineering activities and work products
- Support program lifecycle activities across pursuit, proposal, execution and operations, and serve as SME after spacecraft bus delivery
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 9 years of prior relevant experience
- Graduate Degree and a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience (alternative)
- In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior related experience
- Experience working at or with a spacecraft bus supplier
- In-depth knowledge of spacecraft bus systems such as power, thermal, structures, avionics, propulsion, GNC, C&DH, TT&C, fault management and/or FSW
- Experience executing all phases of a spacecraft bus program and major design reviews
- Experience evaluating, managing, and leveraging technical, cost and schedule requirements
- Experience with Hardware/Software integration, testing, and troubleshooting
- Experience with flatsats and simulators
- Ability to obtain TS/SCI security clearance (Security clearances may only be granted to U.S. citizens)
- Familiarity with Digital Engineering and MBSE tools such as DOORs, CAMEO, CREO, JIRA (preferred)
- Experience with spacecraft bus analyses and budgets such as thermal, structural, jitter, pointing, mass, power, propellant, processor utilization (preferred)
- Familiarity with bus level qualification and acceptance test programs both at ambient and environments (preferred)
- Strong project management skills with experience in planning, scheduling, and executing complex engineering projects (preferred)
Benefits
- health and disability insurance
- 401(k) match
- flexible spending accounts
- EAP
- education assistance
- parental leave
- paid time off
- company-paid holidays
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
spacecraft bus systemspower systemsthermal systemsstructuresavionicspropulsionGNCC&DHTT&Cfault management
Soft skills
technical leadershipcollaborationrisk assessmentproblem-solvingproject managementcommunicationcontinuous improvementtechnical documentation preparationteamworkroot cause analysis
Certifications
Bachelor's DegreeGraduate DegreeTS/SCI security clearance
