Senior Mission Systems Engineer – Space IoT

E-Space; Arlington (TX); On-site; USD 100,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Health and wellness care options

Competitive salaries

Learning and development

Job summary

E-Space is actively seeking a Mission Systems Engineer to own mission requirements, manage interface definitions, and drive verification and validation across a multi-discipline team. The role reports to the CSE/Program Manager for a government contract and requires deep MBSE experience and system-level thinking.

With 8+ years in space or defense, you will coordinate across payload, bus, RF/comms, and ground segments, ensuring traceability and compliance with design baselines and ICDs.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive systems engineering experience in space or defense, including requirements ownership, ICDs, or verification on at least one program.
• Experience navigating government contract reviews, CDRLs, and government-furnished requirements.
• Direct responsibility for requirements traceability and verification closure; capable of presenting status at formal reviews.
• Hands-on experience in a subsystem or mission engineering role to coordinate across disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Mission requirements ownership: decompose customer requirements and allocate to subsystems and budgets.
• Interface control: baseline mission ICDs and coordinate changes with subsystem owners and CSE.
• Verification & Validation: develop and execute V&V plans, define TPMs, plan environmental tests, disposition data.
• Integration & Test support: plan and execute AI&T campaigns, including FlatSat and HWIL activities.
• Program interface: act as technical point of contact to government customer and PM, prepare reviews and close actions.
• Configuration management: maintain mission configuration baseline and manage engineering change orders.
• Digital MBSE: ensure traceability between requirements, design artifacts, verification evidence, and as-built records.
• Contract deliverables: assist in preparing CDRLs and other government deliverables.

Job description

E-Space is actively seeking a Mission Systems Engineer to own mission requirements, manage interface definitions, and drive verification and validation across a multi-discipline team. The role reports to the CSE/Program Manager for a government contract and requires deep MBSE experience and system-level thinking.

With 8+ years in space or defense, you will coordinate across payload, bus, RF/comms, and ground segments, ensuring traceability and compliance with design baselines and ICDs.