Senior Spacecraft Concept & Mission Architect

RTX; Provo (UT); On-site; USD 132,000 - 252,000; Full time

Job summary

RTX is seeking a Spacecraft Concept & Mission Engineer to support the Advanced Technology organization in Tucson, AZ. You will help develop satellite concepts, assess CONOPs, and pursue new mission and program captures for national security space customers.

You will collaborate with engineers across disciplines, develop mission planning tools, and contribute to research and development with opportunities for inventions and IP. This is an onsite role located in Tucson, AZ.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 10 years of prior relevant experience.
• Depth in at least one system-level or subsystem-level technical domain: Guidance, Navigation, and Control; Orbital Mechanics; Mission Planning; Mission Analysis / Performance Analysis; Satellite Technology; Multidisciplinary design, System-of-Systems design.
• Experience with programming languages such as Python, MATLAB, and/or C++ to model physical systems.
• An active and transferable Top Secret U.S. government issued security clearance is required at the time of application, with U.S. citizenship.

Responsibilities

• Tasking includes a mix of vehicle design and system sizing, mission performance analysis, and trajectory optimization.
• Analyze notional missions and hardware for feasibility and collaborate with engineers to improve models and understand performance drivers.
• Develop common mission analysis, performance analysis, and mission planning toolsets for a portfolio of systems.
• Utilize grid computing infrastructure to enable generation and analysis of large datasets.
• Produce visualizations of complex systems and mission CONOPs in STK or similar tools.
• Coordinate with product line management and customers.
• Work closely with programs & AT leadership to develop concepts and mature technologies for new business development and capture.
• Engage directly in mission planning application software development and testing.

Skills

Python

MATLAB

C++

System performance

CONOPS

Algorithms

Modeling and simulation

Education

STEM degree

Tools

Git

SLURM

Ansys STK

Job description

RTX is seeking a Spacecraft Concept & Mission Engineer to support the Advanced Technology organization in Tucson, AZ. You will help develop satellite concepts, assess CONOPs, and pursue new mission and program captures for national security space customers.

You will collaborate with engineers across disciplines, develop mission planning tools, and contribute to research and development with opportunities for inventions and IP. This is an onsite role located in Tucson, AZ.