Mission Engineer: Missile Warning & Space Systems (TS/SCI)

Vantor (Maxar Intelligence); El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 147,000 - 216,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with company match

Mental health resources

Student loan repayment assistance

Adoption reimbursement

Pet insurance

Job summary

Vantor is seeking a Mission Engineer to support the U.S. Space Force and teammates, applying mission engineering to identify gaps and resolve integration challenges across space-based sensors, ground systems, networks, data processing, and C2.

You will work with government and industry teams to translate operational needs into technical requirements and to inform enterprise priorities, including collaboration with Army and Navy partners. Onsite work is required in El Segundo, CA.

Qualifications

• Top Secret clearance.
• Bachelor's degree.
• 8+ years applying mission engineering, systems engineering, or SoS methods to operational missions and capability integration.
• 5+ years developing mission engineering threads, scenarios, or architectures that define systems, interfaces, and dependencies.
• Experience conducting mission analysis to identify requirements and integration challenges.
• Experience identifying and assessing risks, issues, and gaps in mission capabilities.
• Understanding of missile warning and missile tracking capabilities and space-based sensors.
• Understanding of sensor integration, data processing, communications, and information exchange requirements.
• Understanding of PNT, SATCOM, EW capabilities in mission execution.
• Understanding of command-and-control architectures and interfaces for sensor-to-C2 integration.
• TS/SCI clearance.

Responsibilities

• Develop mission engineering threads, scenarios, and MET modules defining systems, interfaces, and dependencies for missile warning and tracking missions.
• Conduct mission analysis to identify requirements, shortfalls, and integration challenges across end-to-end architectures.
• Identify, document, and assess risks, issues, and gaps affecting mission capabilities and dependencies.
• Translate mission needs into technical and integration requirements supporting end-to-end kill-chain closure.
• Evaluate dependencies across space-based sensors, ground systems, comms networks, data processing, and C2 architectures.
• Assess sensor integration and contributions of PNT, SATCOM, EW, MTI to mission execution.
• Develop assessments and recommendations to address capability shortfalls and inform priorities.
• Collaborate with government, program offices, engineering teams, and joint partners to address cross-system integration.

Skills

Mission engineering

Systems engineering

SoS engineering

Mission analysis

Requirements translation

Risk assessment

Stakeholder collaboration

Clearance TS/SCI

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Vantor is seeking a Mission Engineer to support the U.S. Space Force and teammates, applying mission engineering to identify gaps and resolve integration challenges across space-based sensors, ground systems, networks, data processing, and C2.

You will work with government and industry teams to translate operational needs into technical requirements and to inform enterprise priorities, including collaboration with Army and Navy partners. Onsite work is required in El Segundo, CA.