SIGINT Flight Engineer

FTS International, LLC (FTS) is committed to providing the Federal Government with quality consultants and support. To ensure mission success we focus on putting our customers first while minimizing corporate bureaucracy on our staff. We provide Subject Matter Experts (SME) free of Organizational Conflicts of Interest (OCI) focused on independent analysis and mission support services within the disciplines of Engineering, Counter Terrorism Operations, Management, Information Technology, Signals Analysis, Administration, Cyber Security and Linguistics.

FTS has an opportunity for a SIGINT Flight Engineer in Aurora, CO.

The SIGINT Flight Engineer will provide Systems Engineering and Technical Advisory (SETA) services focused on SIGINT collection systems and systems engineering.

Responsibilities

• Represent the government in executing spacecraft integration, test, launch, and on-orbit operations
• Conduct anomaly support, launch and mission readiness, and end-to-end space systems architecture analysis
• Maintain close communications with the program acquisition office and customer engineering organizations providing recommendations on risk level of spacecraft activities
• Oversee day-to-day execution of mission operations and processes to ensure proper attention to health, safety, and effective use of national resources
• Provide launch and mission readiness subject matter expertise to operations and engineering including readiness for launch, spacecraft initialization, and transition to mission

Required Skills/Qualifications

• TS/SCI with polygraph
• BS STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math) in engineering discipline
• 9+ years' relevant experience
• Experience in spacecraft, payload, and launch vehicle engineering as well as mission readiness process, control gates, and associated entry/exit criteria.
• SIGINT systems engineering expertise, and significant space and ground systems domain knowledge
• Technical familiarity with SIGINT system's payloads, subsystems, and technical capabilities
• Self-starter, proactively addresses customer requirements with no supervision; readily defines solutions for broad, abstract topics
• Polished communicator (written/verbal); impeccable interpersonal skills and personal judgment

Desired Skills/Qualifications

• Real-time operations experience as a spacecraft operator or spacecraft engineer, familiar with space operations/policies
• 4-years' experience in initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, controlling, and/or closing DoD or Intelligence Community projects or Programs
• Familiar with Digital Engineering/Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and associated tools, Agile development, cloud technologies
• Contract management/COTR support experience
• Experience with Jira, Confluence

FTS International, LLC is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.