Senior Satellite Systems Engineer — Onsite TS/SCI

Gentry Professional Services, Inc.; Sterling (VA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

9/80 schedule

401(k) with 4% company match

Health, dental and vision insurance

Healthcare savings account (HSA)

Paid time off, including holidays

Performance-based bonuses

Job summary

Gentry Professional Services is seeking an experienced Systems Engineer for a space programs organization. The role involves taking concepts through delivery, modeling mission-level elements, and producing technical content for reviews.

You will join a cross-discipline team to define requirements, manage interfaces, and develop analyses and tools. On-site work is required with TS/SCI clearance; strong briefing and leadership skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of professional experience, Master’s with 3 years, or PhD with 1 year.
• Active TS/SCI clearance at time of application.
• Experience spanning architectural studies, technical baseline definition, requirements and interface management, hardware/software integration, and mission planning/execution.
• Experience working as part of a cross-discipline engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Support major program milestones and readiness reviews by developing technical content and distilling it into presentations for key stakeholders.
• Author and contribute to program data products and other critical deliverables.
• Work with mission partners to accurately model mission-level elements.
• Assess vehicle day-in-the-life performance and build design reference missions (DRMs).
• Produce supporting analyses, including propellant budgets, on-orbit fuel requirements, RF link budgets, and mission lifetime estimates.
• Develop analysis tools as needed to close gaps in the existing toolset.
• Own requirements management, decomposing requirements from the mission level down to subsystems.
• Own interface management, including the development of Interface Control Documentation (ICDs).

Skills

Systems engineering

Cross-discipline teamwork

Requirements management

Active TS/SCI clearance

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

PhD

Tools

Python

STK

MATLAB

Job description

Gentry Professional Services is seeking an experienced Systems Engineer for a space programs organization. The role involves taking concepts through delivery, modeling mission-level elements, and producing technical content for reviews.

You will join a cross-discipline team to define requirements, manage interfaces, and develop analyses and tools. On-site work is required with TS/SCI clearance; strong briefing and leadership skills are essential.