Senior Spacecraft Concept & Mission Engineer

RTX; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 108,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Job summary

RTX's Southwest Operations and Mission Analysis department in Tucson, AZ is seeking a Spacecraft Concept & Mission Engineer to support Advanced Technology. You will help develop satellite concepts, assess mission CONOPs, and support new programs for national security space customers.

You will collaborate with engineers across disciplines to improve models, perform mission planning analyses, and generate visualization outputs using STK, Python, MATLAB, and related tools.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 8 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.
• Experience with programming languages such as Python, MATLAB, and/or C++ to model physical systems.

Responsibilities

• Join a team of engineers and analysts to realize team objectives in vehicle design, system sizing, mission performance analysis, and trajectory optimization.
• Analyze notional missions and hardware for feasibility and improve models to 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.
• Develop concepts and mature technologies for new business development and capture; pursue IRAD funding and IP disclosures.

Skills

Python

MATLAB

C++

Guidance,NAV,Control

Mission Planning

Modeling & Simulation

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Tools

STK

Git

SLURM

Ansys STK

Job description

RTX's Southwest Operations and Mission Analysis department in Tucson, AZ is seeking a Spacecraft Concept & Mission Engineer to support Advanced Technology. You will help develop satellite concepts, assess mission CONOPs, and support new programs for national security space customers.

You will collaborate with engineers across disciplines to improve models, perform mission planning analyses, and generate visualization outputs using STK, Python, MATLAB, and related tools.