JOB DESCRIPTION
Title: Ground Software Engineer
KBR has an opportunity for a Ground Software Engineer to support the SSPO Command & Control Division (CCD). SSPO CCD requires an experienced engineer familiar with ground systems software acquisitions to provide direct support to the Command & Control Division chief, and assist in Ground System Engineering for the Command & Control software. This multi-disciplined position encompasses system engineering and contract technical and programmatic surveillance for the sell-off of satellite ground software systems, as part of a government/contractor team. The following tasks are representative of those that will be accomplished at the request of the customer:
Responsibilities include:
- Provide primary support, as required, to the customer.
- Provide expert advice concerning satellite ground software development, test, verification, validation and integration activities.
- Assist in identifying, tracking, evaluating and mitigating technical, financial and schedule risks -- participate in the CCD and contractor risk management processes.
- Provide formal and informal feedback to the Division Chief on all aspects of program status.
- Support the customer in oversight of the design, integration and test, installation and sell-off of spacecraft command and control software systems.
- Perform integration support for software solutions in multiple locations.
- Provide systems engineering support for requirements development, design, test plans, and requirements verifications through acceptance testing from developers.
- Review and assess the adequacy of ground systems specifications, Requirement Allocation Documents (RAD), Requirement Verification Plans (RVP), Interface Control Documents (ICD), Requirement Verification Reports (RVR) and system level requirements documentation.
- Review, analyze and coordinate any changes to ground system specifications. Participate in defining, managing, testing, verifying and validating collection segment internal and external interfaces.
- Attend system level design reviews, and program management reviews to assess ground system design maturity, requirements compliance and to provide informed technical recommendations to the customer.
- Review, document and trace ground systems hardware requirements, and coordinate with other engineers, FFRDC and developer personnel to resolve issues.
- Review ground system requirements allocations for accuracy and ensure requirement allocation documentation is complete and accurate.
- Participate in and witness ground hardware systems testing to verify internal and external interfaces.
- Coordinate across geographic diverse sites for delivery and acceptance testing; requires travel to these sites as well as to developer sites.
- Support request for change (RFC) processes.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering and 10 years of satellite ground software and requirements management experience.
- Basic understanding of DOD/IC satellite systems and architectures.
- Excellent interpersonal, leadership, team building and problem solving skills with a demonstrated ability to be effective in a government/contractor team environment.
- Experience in DOD/IC acquisition and program management processes.
- Experience in the development of DOD/IC mission payloads, associated phenomenology, and their effective integration into system level architectures.
- Working knowledge of the requirements process across a program’s lifecycle.
- Familiarity with Earned Value measurement processes.
- Demonstrated ability to take complex technical issues and present them in a form and format suitable for decision.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Demonstrated sustained superior performance.
- Available to travel domestically and internationally.
Security Clearance Requirements: Active TS/SCI with CI Polygraph
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