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At Vantor, you’ll work with the U.S. Space Force and our teammates as part of the effort to develop and rapidly deploy the next generation of resilient Missile Warning (MW), Tactical Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (TISR), and Environmental Monitoring (EM) capabilities to deter attacks and provide critical information to our warfighters to defeat our enemies in battle.  Within this role, you’ll test, analyze, evaluate, verify, and validate these systems, and identify areas requiring urgent mitigation up-front and early to develop this system with advanced technology solutions. Your functional expertise, communication and collaboration skills, and attention to detail will be vital as you contribute to the acquisition and development of space sensing capabilities.

Join our team and create the future of Remote Sensing in the Space Force.  Due to the nature of work performed within this facility, U.S. citizenship is required.

Qualifications:

• Secret clearance

• Bachelor’s degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) field

• 10 years of experience supporting DoD weapon systems acquisitions or systems engineering

• 5 years of experience performing systems engineering analysis and developing systems engineering products for satellite systems or ground systems for Command and Control and Data Processing

• 3 years of experience leading teams of at least 5 people

• Experience communicating and coordinating between the client, your team, related teams, and leadership

• Experience with the development of technical specifications, interface control documents, ground architectures and designs, integration plans and schedules, and test plans

• Experience with authoring requirements and managing and developing testable criteria, system validation and verification, and analysis

• Knowledge of network architecture

• Knowledge of Agile methodologies

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in modeling, simulation, or analysis of RF Systems, including Space-to-Ground and Payload Systems

• Experience performing systems engineering, integration, and testing on space-based remote sensing systems, including SBIRS, Next Generation OPIR, FORGE, STSS, HBTSS, DMSP, WSF-M, and EWS

• Experience with planning and executing program reviews throughout the life cycle of the system

• Experience using a Model-Based Systems Engineering approach to manage system definitions and technical baselines

• Knowledge of satellite ground system design, cloud architecture, DevOps and DevSecOps, software frameworks, communication and networking, data processing, exploitation, and dissemination, space system operations and tasking, mission planning, space-ground integration, or space system factory support

• Knowledge of DoD 5000.01 and 5000.02

• Knowledge of systems engineering standards, including IEEE 15288.1 and IEEE 15288.2

• TS/SCI clearance

• Master’s degree in an Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or Computer Science field

• INCOSE Systems Engineering Professional Certification, including ASEP, CSEP, or ESEP Certification

Clearance: Secret

The position will require at least 2-3x per week on site.  Meetings/schedules may require more days on site.

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Benefits: Vantor offers a competitive total rewards package that goes beyond the standard, including a robust 401(k) with company match, mental health resources, and unique perks like student loan repayment assistance, adoption reimbursement and pet insurance to support all aspects of your life. You can find more information on our benefits at: 

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