Space Weather Ground Systems Engineer – Data & Integration

Socket.dev; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 145,000 - 176,000; Full time

Job summary

Stellar Solutions is seeking a Ground Systems Engineer to support Space-Based Weather and Environmental Monitoring ground systems, data validation, and mission-data delivery. The role involves coordinating across government stakeholders, ground teams, data users, and mission partners to ensure successful integration and operation.

The position requires hands-on collaboration across space vehicle, payload, ground, data processing, calibration and validation, and user communities, with a focus on

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in systems engineering, ground systems, satellite systems, mission processing, data integration, remote sensing, weather systems, or related aerospace and defense programs.
• Experience supporting government or customer teams in a ground systems, mission systems, or systems engineering role.
• Familiarity with satellite ground systems, mission-data processing, data dissemination, operational data flows, interfaces, or integration and test activities.
• Experience supporting requirements development, interface control documents, concepts of operations, technical baselines, test planning, verification, validation, or readiness reviews.
• Ability to coordinate effectively across government, engineering, operations, mission-user, and partner organizations.
• Strong technical communication, meeting coordination, documentation, and action-tracking skills.

Responsibilities

• Support ground systems engineering for Space-Based Weather Systems and Environmental Monitoring programs.
• Provide engineering support across Electro-Optical/Infrared Weather Systems and Weather System Follow-on – Microwave mission areas.
• Lead or coordinate Ground Integrated Product Team activities, including meeting rhythms, action tracking, technical issue resolution, and stakeholder coordination.
• Develop ground architecture mappings, conduct interface analyses, support integration planning, and define mission-data flows.
• Support data calibration, validation, and data-quality assessment activities for Weather System Follow-on – Microwave capabilities.
• Integrate commercial environmental monitoring data services into government weather mission workflows.
• Define interfaces between commercial data-as-a-service capabilities and ground systems, data-processing environments, and operational users.
• Develop and maintain requirements, requirements traceability, technical documentation, interface controls, test plans, and verification artifacts.
• Coordinate across space vehicle, payload, ground, data processing, calibration and validation, mission operations, and user communities.
• Support technical baseline reviews, readiness reviews, integration events, anomaly resolution, risk tracking, and program review activities.
• Assess data latency, quality, availability, interface readiness, and operational suitability of weather and environmental monitoring products.
• Support the transition of capabilities from development, demonstration, or prototype activities into operational ground systems and mission use.

Skills

Ground systems engineering

Satellite systems

Data integration

Mission processing

Remote sensing

Technical communication

Job description

Stellar Solutions is seeking a Ground Systems Engineer to support Space-Based Weather and Environmental Monitoring ground systems, data validation, and mission-data delivery. The role involves coordinating across government stakeholders, ground teams, data users, and mission partners to ensure successful integration and operation.

The position requires hands-on collaboration across space vehicle, payload, ground, data processing, calibration and validation, and user communities, with a focus on