About the Job:

　　As a Lead Spacecraft Systems Engineer (Secret Clearance Required) you will be responsible for leading a team developing a spacecraft system serving a range of missions and customers. This includes creating, monitoring, and guiding requirements definition, spacecraft design, procurement and fabrication, integration and test, and verification and validation of the overall space vehicle system. You will interact with subsystem and unit engineers, manufacturing and test personnel, and program management. You will manage the technical elements of the space vehicle system. Our spacecraft systems engineers create spacecraft -- not just paperwork!

　　Responsibilities

　　-- Provides systems engineering leadership to a program team.

　　-- Applies an interdisciplinary, collaborative approach to plan, design, develop and verify a lifecycle balanced solution for space systems

　　-- Familiarity with spacecraft subsystems functions and interfaces

　　-- Develops integrated spacecraft system designs and solutions

　　-- Responsible for all aspects of spacecraft systems engineering including performing preliminary concept development, trade studies, CONOPS definition, requirements decomposition and allocation, interface requirements definition, requirements verification and validation, support to integration and test operations, and anomaly resolution

　　-- Coordinates and communicates with subsystem engineering teams to ensure system execution

　　-- Develops the planning organization, implementation and monitoring of requirements management processes, tools, risk, issues, opportunity management and technology readiness assessment processes

　　-- Applies model-based systems engineering techniques for the definition of the spacecraft system

　　-- Participates in software integration and test activities to ensure mission functionality prior to deployment into operations

　　-- Coordinates with management and peers to ensure the integrity of high-quality operational products, including procedures, tools, and system configuration.

　　-- Performs tasks to analyze technical data, verify and sustain specific systems configurations in accordance with defined constraints and operational requirements.

　　-- Performs various analyses to optimize the spacecraft system and/or system architecture

　　-- Resolves cross-functional technical issues

　　-- Develops and improves systems engineering processes

　　MUST HAVES:

　　Bachelor's Degree in Aerospace Engineering or other relevant engineering or science discipline

　　Active Secret (Top Secret Preferred) Security Clearance

　　Minimum of 8 years of directly relevant aerospace industry experience, preferably with spacecraft systems

　　Demonstrated leadership and communications skills

　　Demonstrated experience with space systems engineering principles and techniques

　　Demonstrated experience with power, mass, and other system budgets

　　Demonstrated experience with requirements analysis and flow-down

　　Demonstrated experience with design verification and validation processes

　　Demonstrated experience with configuration management

　　Demonstrated experience with satellite level integration and test processes

　　Familiarity with satellite in-orbit operations

　　Ability to work ONSITE in El Segundo, CA

　　Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

　　At Actalent, diversity and inclusion are a bridge towards the equity and success of our people. DE&I are embedded into our culture through:

　　Hiring diverse talent

　　Maintaining an inclusive environment through persistent self-reflection

　　Building a culture of care, engagement, and recognition with clear outcomes

　　Ensuring growth opportunities for our people

　　Actalent is an equal opportunity employer.

　　About Actalent

　　Actalent connects passion with purpose. We help visionary companies advance their engineering and science initiatives through access to specialized experts that drive scale, innovation, and speed to market. With a network of almost 30,000 engineering and sciences consultants and more than 4,500 clients across the U.S., Canada, Asia, and Europe, Actalent serves many of the Fortune 500. An operating company of Allegis Group, the global leader in talent solutions, Actalent launched as a new specialized engineering and sciences services and workforce solutions brand in 2021.