Space Systems Engineer

Stratos Solutions, Inc.; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Stratos Solutions, Inc. is seeking a Space Systems Engineer to support a government customer in Colorado Springs, CO.

The role focuses on space protection, mission resilience, and the integration of critical space capabilities across systems and programs. The candidate will engage in threat-informed engineering, assess architectures, and coordinate with government, SETA, and contractor teams to deliver actionable recommendations and ensure mission success.

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship and TS/SCI clearance with polygraph is required.
• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field with 3+ years of experience or a Master’s with 1+ year of experience.
• Experience with systems engineering processes including requirements, integration, risk management, and configuration/change management.
• Understanding of space mission architectures and how space, ground, comms, and ops segments interact.
• Ability to assess complex risks and develop actionable recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Support Government systems engineering and space protection activities across the system lifecycle.
• Assess threats, vulnerabilities, risks, resilience, survivability, and mission assurance for space missions.
• Evaluate protection across spacecraft, ground systems, communications, C2, and mission operations.
• Develop and evaluate space protection strategies, requirements, architectures, and courses of action.
• Apply threat-informed systems engineering to identify vulnerabilities and mitigation approaches.
• Produce clear analyses and recommendations for Government leadership.
• Represent Government interests in reviews, working groups, and technical forums.

Skills

Systems engineering

Risk assessment

Communication

Self-starter

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Master's degree in STEM

Tools

MBSE / Digital Engineering

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Stratos Solutions is seeking a Space Systems Engineer to provide Systems Engineering and Technical Advisory (SETA) support to a government customer in Colorado Springs, CO. This position will focus on space protection, mission resilience, systems engineering, and integration of critical space capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Support Government systems engineering and space protection activities across the system lifecycle.
• Assess space mission architectures for threats, vulnerabilities, risks, resilience, survivability, and mission assurance.
• Evaluate protection considerations across spacecraft, ground systems, communications, command and control, and mission operations.
• Support development and evaluation of space protection strategies, requirements, architectures, and courses of action.
• Apply threat-informed systems engineering to identify vulnerabilities, mission impacts, and potential mitigation approaches.
• Review technical documentation and provide clear analysis and recommendations to Government leadership.
• Represent Government interests in engineering reviews, working groups, and technical forums.
• Coordinate across Government, SETA, FFRDC, intelligence, operations, and contractor organizations to resolve technical and mission challenges.

Required Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship and active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.
• Bachelor’s degree in STEM or relevant field with 3+ years of experience, or Master’s degree with 1+ year of experience.
• Experience with systems engineering processes, including requirements, integration, risk management, and configuration/change management.
• Understanding of space mission architectures and the interaction between space, ground, communications, and mission operations segments.
• Ability to assess complex technical and operational risks and develop actionable recommendations.
• Strong written/verbal communication, collaboration, and customer-facing skills.
• Self-starter capable of managing multiple priorities with minimal supervision.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience with space protection, space control, mission assurance, resilience, survivability, or space domain awareness.
• Experience with threat, vulnerability, mission risk, or resiliency assessments for space systems.
• Knowledge of satellite constellations, orbital operations, spacecraft and ground systems, communications, and command and control.
• Understanding of protection concepts including redundancy, disaggregation, proliferation, reconstitution, maneuver, and operational continuity.
• Spacecraft or ground systems operations experience, particularly in degraded or contested environments.
• Familiarity with MBSE/Digital Engineering, Agile, cloud technologies, Jira, and Confluence.