Senior Space Systems Engineer — Flexible, Mission-Critical

Auria Space; Albuquerque (NM); On-site; USD 115,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous PTO

Flex Time

Floating Holidays

4% 401(k) match

Tuition reimbursement

Healthcare + HSA

Life insurance

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Auria Space is seeking a systems engineer to lead the integration and sustainment of hardware and antenna service systems for space and ground control. You will perform end-to-end systems engineering, development, testing, and deployment across space vehicle factory and launch activities, ensuring interoperability and lifecycle support from planning through decommission.

You will collaborate across teams, apply MBSE practices, and work under DoD security requirements, with a TS clearance

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Science, Information Systems, or related STEM discipline.
• 4+ years of experience on a project of similar scope or complexity (2+ years with a Master's).
• Must be a US citizen with an active DoD Top Secret clearance, with an investigation date within scope (6 years).

Responsibilities

• Provide systems engineering, development, integration, and sustainment of hardware and antenna service integration systems within the architecture.
• Deliver systems engineering, development, integration, and sustainment of test support infrastructure for space vehicle factory and launch-based testing activities.
• Support ongoing mission integration and technical activities across Ground Control systems, ensuring interoperability and interface compliance.
• Maintain lifecycle sustainment for current missions and new missions through end-of-life and for established timelines.
• Perform planning, requirements analysis, procurement, development, installation, integration, testing, and operational readiness activities.
• Lead/participate in Tech & Ops Review, discussing performance metrics, incidents and resolution, maintenance coordination, sustainment activities, configuration management, cybersecurity status, risks and mitigation.
• Coordinate with external organizations, solicit requirements, and assist with technical interface definitions and requirements.
• Coordinate IT and operational support (hw, sw, cloud, integration/orchestration of all components).
• Use SE discipline to ensure changes do not adversely impact systems/capabilities.]
• Designs, implements, installs, maintains, and administers infrastructures including hardware, software, and various configurations.
• Monitors overall performance to proactively identify potential issues and tune appropriately.
• Performs root cause analysis on failed components and implements corrective measures.
• Works with others to establish and improve processes and procedures.
• May have sole responsibility for projects and participate in disaster recovery exercises.
• Performs work under minimal supervision.
• Handles complex issues and problems, and refers only the most complex issues to higher-level staff.
• Possesses comprehensive knowledge of subject matter.
• Provides leadership, coaching, and mentoring to a subordinate group.
• May act as a lead or first-level supervisor and must demonstrate leadership skills.
• Must have strong technical expertise and demonstrate analytical thinking skills.

Skills

Systems engineering

Requirement analysis

MBSE

CI/CD tools

GitLab/GitHub

Agile methodologies

DoD Top Secret clearance

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering/Science/IS

Tools

MBSE

DOORS

Cameo

GitLab

GitHub

Azure

Jenkins

Nexus

JIRA/Confluence

Job description

Auria Space is seeking a systems engineer to lead the integration and sustainment of hardware and antenna service systems for space and ground control. You will perform end-to-end systems engineering, development, testing, and deployment across space vehicle factory and launch activities, ensuring interoperability and lifecycle support from planning through decommission.

You will collaborate across teams, apply MBSE practices, and work under DoD security requirements, with a TS clearance