Senior Systems Engineer Liaison

The Senior Systems Engineer Liaison shall provide support to SSG contractors in the Denver area; The Contractor shall provide matrixed reach back support to the SSG program office in the areas of GFX/STE management, COMSEC development/management, payload artifact review, space vehicle bus artifact review, risk management, requirements review, and enter segment coordination as needed.

• Provide systems engineering leadership to the systems engineering, integration, and test, and project engineering teams.
• Apply engineering rigor to achieve execution excellence and solve critical issues.
• Participate in system and independent design reviews, test/production, readiness, reviews, trade studies and other program/customer reviews as required to keep the project teams on track.
• Ensure requirements are met through rigorous requirements management, technical reviews, integration, verification and validation, activities; proven success in applying system engineering.
• Requires frequent interaction with government customer, FFRDC, and development contractors.
• Provide communication skills to support written deliverables, group discussion, and oral presentations.

The candidiate is a recognized expert within the company, who designs, researches and develops highly advanced applications, which may result in new product/business opportunities for the company.

Leads efforts to capture new business through technical work and capability briefings.

• Bachelor's (or equivalent) with 12-15 yrs of experience or a Master's with 10-13 yrs of experience or PhD with 10+ years of experience.
• Must possess and be able to maintain a TS/SCI with Poly

Expected Day to Day Activities and Abilities:

• Using a holistic approach, designs, develops, evaluates and modifies end-to-end systems and systems-oriented products through their entire life cycle.
• Generates quantifiable requirements based on customer description, system planning and design, and acquisition logistics.
• Ensures requirements comply with client requirements and government standards through formal verification methods.
• Translates high level product development strategies into system requirement specifications and works with other engineering disciplines to develop lower level detailed implementation requirements.
• Establishes and coordinates development of standards, practices, and procedures as related to the overall product development.
• Designs interfaces and brings system elements together so they work as a whole.
• Assesses performance using evaluation criteria and technical performance measures. Customer liaison and support for business development activities and to understand and shape requirements.
• Participates in system conceptual design and documentation of the design concepts. Translates high level product development strategies into system requirement specifications and works with multi-discipline engineering teams to develop lower level detailed requirements.
• Participates in design reviews of components (hardware and software) to ensure applicability to the current system and traceability of requirements through compliance verification and validation.
• Generates system level requirements verification procedures and customer acceptance test procedures.
• Reviews test plans/procedures and ensures they meet the objectives of the contractual requirements and participates in the testing process to validate requirements.

Desired education:

• Bachelor of Science degree in engineering, math, physics, or related discipline

Desired experience:

• 10 years or more a full life cycle systems engineering experience with a record of increasing responsible leadership positions

We are an equal opportunity employer and federal government contractor.

We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment as protected by law.