Spacecraft Mission Operations Engineer (Top Secret)

Northrop Grumman; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 92,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Health insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Savings plan

Paid holidays and PTO

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Space Sector is seeking a Mission Operations Development Engineer to support high-tempo on-orbit spacecraft activities, including launch and early operations, testing, and sustainment.

You will join a geographically distributed team, perform script testing, develop command procedures, and coordinate with systems engineers to ensure mission readiness. The role requires on-site work with potential for shift duties and a Top-Secret clearance.

Qualifications

• Requires an active U.S. Government Top-Secret security clearance at time of application.
• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field with 2 years of professional experience, or Master’s degree with 0 years.
• Proficiency with Python, STOL or other coding languages; strong system engineering background; excellent verbal and written communications.

Responsibilities

• Provide mission operations support to classified satellite programs.
• Work with systems engineers to integrate and test operational scripts for use during all phases of satellite operations.
• Develop and test command procedures, telemetry pages, and other products derived from vendor provided documentation.
• Support campaign mission preparation and operations activities including mission rehearsals, mission execution, and post launch test execution.
• Provide leadership to cross-functional geographically dispersed satellite operations team during real-time mission execution.
• Lead troubleshooting of satellite, ground, and/or C2 software issues during mission operations.
• Enact configuration management processes for space vehicle configuration, to include hardware, software, and configurable item parameters.
• Make modifications to existing operations procedures to incorporate lessons learned from in-flight performance, to include adding automation capabilities.
• Support internal and external customer meetings through proficient verbal and documented (MS PowerPoint, MS Word, MS Excel) communications.
• Utilize Agile Processes and Tools, including Atlassian Suite (Jira, Confluence), BitBucket, MatterMost.
• This position will require up to 50% shift work

Skills

Python

MATLAB

SIMULINK

Fortran

Java

C/C++

STOL

Education

Bachelor’s degree in STEM

Master’s degree (optional)

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Bitbucket

MatterMost

Job description

Northrop Grumman Space Sector is seeking a Mission Operations Development Engineer to support high-tempo on-orbit spacecraft activities, including launch and early operations, testing, and sustainment.

You will join a geographically distributed team, perform script testing, develop command procedures, and coordinate with systems engineers to ensure mission readiness. The role requires on-site work with potential for shift duties and a Top-Secret clearance.