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Mission Engineer (Chantilly, VA; Colorado Springs, CO; ...)
Position Title: Mission Engineer
Requisition ID: TA170
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 a mission-focused and technically adept Mission Engineer to lead technical integration efforts for space-based sensing and targeting missions supporting next-generation defense architectures. This role focuses on the coordination of sensing payloads, data fusion architectures, and space-ground integration to deliver persistent awareness and real-time targeting capabilities in support of joint warfighting operations. This individual will lead the coordination of technical interfaces, data fusion architecture, and sensing modality integration necessary to maintain continuous custody of time-sensitive targets and deliver actionable intelligence to the warfighter in real time.
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: TA170
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 a mission-focused and technically adept Mission Engineer to lead technical integration efforts for space-based sensing and targeting missions supporting next-generation defense architectures. This role focuses on the coordination of sensing payloads, data fusion architectures, and space-ground integration to deliver persistent awareness and real-time targeting capabilities in support of joint warfighting operations. This individual will lead the coordination of technical interfaces, data fusion architecture, and sensing modality integration necessary to maintain continuous custody of time-sensitive targets and deliver actionable intelligence to the warfighter in real time.
Key Responsibilities:
- Serve as the technical integration lead for multi-sensor space missions, orchestrating system-of-systems engineering efforts across multiple industry partners, government stakeholders, and technical domains.
- Support architect development and integration of multi-phenomenology sensing modalities (e.g., IR, SAR, RF, multispectral) and ensure seamless delivery of fused sensor data into the customer’s architecture.
- Support the definition and implementation of interface control documents (ICDs), system-level requirements, and on-orbit data fusion CONOPS to enable automated sensor-to-shooter targeting.
- Support the maturation and integration of advanced processing, exploitation, and dissemination (PED) techniques to maintain custody of targets in contested and denied environments.
- Coordinate across customers, internal teams, and external vendors to support multi-domain solutions and ensure alignment with broader all-domain command and control (JADC2-like) initiatives.
- Engage in technical reviews, integration readiness assessments, and testing campaigns to validate system-level performance across multiple contributing constellations.
- Support the transition of R&D capabilities into operational deployments and contribute to our customers’ evolving architecture strategies.
- Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- 10+ years of experience in systems engineering or mission integration, with a strong background in tactical surveillance and reconnaissance, space-based missile warning, tracking, and defense systems, remote sensing, and/or space based sensing of time critical targets.
- Demonstrated experience with system-of-systems integration, especially involving multi-vendor architectures and multi-sensor payloads.
- Strong technical understanding of sensing modalities (e.g., EO/IR, RF, SAR), PED systems, and data fusion algorithms.
- Familiarity with sensor tasking, real-time data transport, and automated decision-making in a JADC2 context.
- Clearance Required: Top Secret/SCI
- Master’s degree in a relevant technical discipline.
- Experience with architectures and/or programs within USSF, NRO, MDA, or other DoD agencies.
- Familiarity with space-based target custody concepts, kill chain dynamics, and tactical sensor-to-shooter mission threads.
- Working knowledge of MBSE tools, mission simulation frameworks (e.g., STK), and modeling environments for multi-sensor data fusion.
- Background in space autonomy, on-orbit processing, or AI/ML integration into operational space systems.
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