Lead Systems Engineer, Space Systems

** Candidate must be a US Citizen and possess (and be able to maintain) a Final Secret Clearance or meet the eligibility to obtain (and maintain) a Secret Clearance. **

Location: El Segundo, CA, Nashua, NH, Mukiteo, WA, Sunnyvale, CA

About Us

Pacific Defense is an industry leading developer of advanced RF and electronics systems for the U.S. Department of Defense and commercial customers. We specialize in Open Systems Architecture solutions for the non-kinetic fight. Our vision provides cost effective, highly capable, modular, and rapidly reconfigurable systems to our customers in less than half the time of traditional defense contractors. Our team delivers sensing and effects solutions for the Land, Air, Sea and Space domains at an unprecedented pace. We accomplish this strategy by combining broad domain experience in Radar, EW, SIGINT, and Communications with a go-fast commercial execution model. Our model fully leverages Open Standards, like SOSA, CMOSS, and MORA, as well as rapid prototyping methodologies to bring our advanced capabilities to customers. The Pacific Defense family includes Perceptronics Solutions with expertise spanning signal processing, novel algorithm development, cognitive systems, high performance computing, hardware design and development, and systems integration and test. We embrace the diversity of people, ideas, and a great employee experience to drive the innovation that runs through everything we do. Pacific Defense has established an excellent reputation in our professional community and is growing our team to seize new opportunities to solve tough challenges for national defense. Come join our team and accelerate your career!

Who are we looking for?

Pacific Defense is seeking a proven Lead Systems Engineer, Space Systems with the ability to lead and execute complex programs. The Lead Systems Engineer will partner with the Mission Solutions Chief Engineer (MSCE) in the Space Systems business area. In this partnership the LSE will be the primary Engineering Authority for the execution of the various programs within the business area. While the MSCE is focused outwardly and owns the technical baselines, the LSE is inwardly focused on program execution implementing the technical baselines on a per program basis.

Requirements

You’ll Bring These Qualifications

• Support the Mission Solutions Chief Engineer to ensure the business area baselines, product evolution and program execution align. Be capable of standing in for the MSCE as needed.
• Requirement generation, allocation, and verification for all business area programs
• Accountable for the overall system architecture and its capabilities in support of the program requirements
• Develop and Support the Integration and Test phases including verification/validation/acceptance.
• Support product definition for new products and/or modifications of existing products that comprise the systems being developed on each of the business area programs.
• Responsible for the day-to-day execution of the program engineering team. This will include all engineering disciplines with a focus on execution within cost/schedule budgets.
• Work solutions to program problems across the company
• Support new business initiatives as required to include contribution to technical content, distribution, and collection/validation of Engineering BOEs across engineering disciplines for proposals.

Required Skills:

• Experience with space hardware requirements, specifications, design, integration, and testing
• Applied systems engineering skill set with knowledge of hardware for space applications
• Work with customers to develop and document system requirements
• Monitors supplier performance to ensure system integration and compliance with requirements
• Strong understanding of hardware engineering, electrical engineering, electronics, and computer architectures for space
• Coordinate work to analyz