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Mission Engineer-Ground Lead (Chantilly, VA; Colorado Springs, CO; ...)
Position Title: Mission Engineer-Ground Lead
Requisition ID: TA169
Location: Hybrid; Chantilly, VA/Washington, DC area/Denver, CO Metro/Colorado Springs, CO
Application Deadline: June 1, 2025
Who We Are
Trusted Space builds solutions both on the ground and in space. Our solutions provide advanced capabilities supporting missions vital to our Nation’s defense, intelligence, and science sectors. Our diverse talented staff of scientists, engineers, and business professionals support critical missions including Space Domain Awareness, Battlespace Awareness & Decision Support, Space Exploration & Science, and the establishment of core Space Infrastructure.
Our Culture
As a customer-focused service provider, Trusted Space values it’s employees and clients. We live by our values; central to this principle is the concept to treat others as you would like other to treat you. We offer a collaborative and supportive work environment, world class benefits, and work-life balance. We encourage life-long learning and continuous improvement in all that we do. Each day, we seek to be better than the previous day, embracing our journey to Excellence. We consider it a privilege to work with our customers on their greatest challenges.
Job Description
Position Summary:
Trusted Space is seeking an experienced Mission Engineer – Ground Lead to oversee and coordinate the technical integration efforts of multiple vendors supporting a proliferated space architecture. This role will serve as the primary engineering integrator across government and industry teams, with a focus on ensuring seamless interoperability and mission effectiveness of ground systems supporting our customer’s architectures.
Key Responsibilities:
Trusted Space, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, national origin, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law. All aspects of employment are decided based on qualifications, merit, competence, performance, and business need.
Trusted Space, Inc. participates in the E-Verify program.
DISCLAIMER: Trusted Space, Inc. only uses the respective domains of trustedspace.com and trustedspace.us for official contact and any other domains are likely a scam and do not originate from our company. Trusted Space will never ask a candidate for access or pass codes to personal accounts including e-mails, bank accounts, CashApp, Paypal, Venmo, etc.
Requisition ID: TA169
Location: Hybrid; Chantilly, VA/Washington, DC area/Denver, CO Metro/Colorado Springs, CO
Application Deadline: June 1, 2025
Who We Are
Trusted Space builds solutions both on the ground and in space. Our solutions provide advanced capabilities supporting missions vital to our Nation’s defense, intelligence, and science sectors. Our diverse talented staff of scientists, engineers, and business professionals support critical missions including Space Domain Awareness, Battlespace Awareness & Decision Support, Space Exploration & Science, and the establishment of core Space Infrastructure.
Our Culture
As a customer-focused service provider, Trusted Space values it’s employees and clients. We live by our values; central to this principle is the concept to treat others as you would like other to treat you. We offer a collaborative and supportive work environment, world class benefits, and work-life balance. We encourage life-long learning and continuous improvement in all that we do. Each day, we seek to be better than the previous day, embracing our journey to Excellence. We consider it a privilege to work with our customers on their greatest challenges.
Job Description
Position Summary:
Trusted Space is seeking an experienced Mission Engineer – Ground Lead to oversee and coordinate the technical integration efforts of multiple vendors supporting a proliferated space architecture. This role will serve as the primary engineering integrator across government and industry teams, with a focus on ensuring seamless interoperability and mission effectiveness of ground systems supporting our customer’s architectures.
Key Responsibilities:
- Serve as the mission engineer for ground systems integration, coordinating efforts across multiple space, ground, and network vendors.
- Evaluate and analyze the architecture products including but not limited to CONOPS, operational concept descriptions, and system architecture diagrams, to ensure that they remain aligned with program execution and provide the necessary guidance to enable program delivery.
- Drive the end-to-end technical integration of ground systems, ensuring they support mission planning, command and control, data routing, across the architecture.
- Support/lead technical exchanges, interface control efforts, and working groups to align stakeholders on system requirements, interfaces, and architecture decisions.
- Ensure ground system readiness for mission operations through oversight of integration and test campaigns, validation exercises, and readiness reviews.
- Manage the development and implementation of interface control documents (ICDs), CONOPS, and system-level requirements.
- Collaborate with customer program managers and technical leads to assess vendor progress, identify integration risks, and recommend mitigation strategies.
- Support mission rehearsals, anomaly resolution, and post-launch activities for ground systems across the architecture.
- Stay informed on emerging technologies and architectures to inform future tranches and technology insertions.
- Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline.
- 10+ years of experience in space or ground systems engineering, with at least 3 years in technical leadership or integration role.
- Proven experience managing system integration efforts across multiple contractors or mission partners.
- Strong understanding of DoD space ground segments, including mission operations centers, data transport networks, and cybersecurity practices.
- Familiarity with DoD and/or IC space and ground architectures
- Excellent communication and coordination skills, with the ability to lead cross-functional technical teams
- Clearance Required: Top Secret/SCI
- Master’s degree in a relevant technical field.
- Familiarity with Agile program execution and rapid acquisition methods.
- Experience with interface management, MBSE, and system-of-systems engineering approaches.
Salary Range: The salary range for this role is $180,000-$290,000. Please note that this range is a general guideline and can vary. Trusted Space, Inc. considers several factors when extending an offer including, but not limited to: scope, location, position responsibilities, education/training, key skills and business considerations.
Benefits: Trusted Space seeks to create an environment where Employees are empowered and supported to achieve their full potential. We encourage life-long learning within our Agile & Innovative work environment. We offer competitive compensation and benefits including medical, dental, and vision plans; life and accidental death & dismemberment insurance; 401(k) plan; paid holidays and generous paid time off; short-term and long-term disability insurance; and other benefits to promote health, wellness, and a positive work-life balance.Trusted Space, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, national origin, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law. All aspects of employment are decided based on qualifications, merit, competence, performance, and business need.
Trusted Space, Inc. participates in the E-Verify program.
DISCLAIMER: Trusted Space, Inc. only uses the respective domains of trustedspace.com and trustedspace.us for official contact and any other domains are likely a scam and do not originate from our company. Trusted Space will never ask a candidate for access or pass codes to personal accounts including e-mails, bank accounts, CashApp, Paypal, Venmo, etc.
This is a full time position