Senior Space Ground Systems Engineer & MBSE Lead

GRVTY; Aurora, Sterling (CO, VA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

GRVTY is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to serve as a principal technical anchor across a large-scale, multi-team engineering initiative supporting mission-critical satellite ground systems. In this lead-by-example role, you will bridge the gap between mission operations, external segment stakeholders, and distributed software development pods.

Operating within an agile development framework, you will provide deep domain expertise to steer ground segment architecture, author authoritative

Qualifications

• Active Top-Secret clearance with SCI and polygraph.
• Bachelor's degree in STEM with 15+ years experience (or Master's with 13+ years).
• Proven track record delivering space-ground architectures and C2 solutions.
• Expert MBSE modeling using MBSE tools.
• Experience with RESTful APIs, event streaming, and microservices.
• Experience with Atlassian Jira/Confluence in scaled Agile.

Responsibilities

• Translate customer mission needs and interfaces into robust digital artifacts.
• Govern ground segment MBSE models and maintain traceability to software stories.
• Embed with agile teams to derive technical acceptance criteria and backlogs.
• Define ground-to-space/ground-to-ground messaging schemas and protocols.
• Architect verification/validation strategies and lead formal requirements sell-off.
• Lead TEMs, ICWGs, and ERBs and represent engineering in milestones.

Skills

MBSE modeling

REST APIs

Microservices

Jira/Confluence

Kubernetes

Docker

C2/mission management

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Master's degree (preferred)

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

GRVTY is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to serve as a principal technical anchor across a large-scale, multi-team engineering initiative supporting mission-critical satellite ground systems. In this lead-by-example role, you will bridge the gap between mission operations, external segment stakeholders, and distributed software development pods.

Operating within an agile development framework, you will provide deep domain expertise to steer ground segment architecture, author authoritative