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Mission Engineer-Autonomy Test Focused (Chantilly, VA; Denver Metro Area; ...)
Position Title: Mission Engineer-Autonomy Test Focused
Requisition ID: TA194
Location(s): Hybrid; Greater Denver Metro Area, CO, Northern, VA, Chantilly, VA, Herndon, VA
Application Deadline: March 31, 2026
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 its employees and clients. We live by our values; central to this principle is the concept to treat others as you would like others 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
Trusted Space is seeking a Mission Engineer with a strong focus on testing, integration, and quality assurance of space mission autonomy. In this role, you will be a key contributor to our hybrid test environment—spanning software-in-the-loop (SIL), hardware-in-the-loop (HIL), and digital mission simulation—ensuring highly reliable autonomous behaviors are designed, validated, and delivered to mission-critical space programs.
You will help mature and verify autonomous capabilities such as onboard decision making, fault detection/isolation/recovery (FDIR), distributed constellation coordination, and ground-to-space autonomy—building confidence through rigorous scenario-based testing, simulation, and data-driven evaluation.
You will:
Qualifications
Desired Skills
Trusted Space, LLC 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, disability 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.
DISCLAIMER: Trusted Space, LLC 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: TA194
Location(s): Hybrid; Greater Denver Metro Area, CO, Northern, VA, Chantilly, VA, Herndon, VA
Application Deadline: March 31, 2026
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 its employees and clients. We live by our values; central to this principle is the concept to treat others as you would like others 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
Trusted Space is seeking a Mission Engineer with a strong focus on testing, integration, and quality assurance of space mission autonomy. In this role, you will be a key contributor to our hybrid test environment—spanning software-in-the-loop (SIL), hardware-in-the-loop (HIL), and digital mission simulation—ensuring highly reliable autonomous behaviors are designed, validated, and delivered to mission-critical space programs.
You will help mature and verify autonomous capabilities such as onboard decision making, fault detection/isolation/recovery (FDIR), distributed constellation coordination, and ground-to-space autonomy—building confidence through rigorous scenario-based testing, simulation, and data-driven evaluation.
You will:
- Lead integration and validation of complex autonomous systems across flight and ground segments.
- Define and execute test strategies for mission autonomy (SIL/HIL/digital twin), including scenario generation, Monte Carlo campaigns, safety envelopes, and regression suites.
- Evaluate autonomy software and mission systems for compliance with government and commercial safety and quality standards; author test plans, procedures, and verification reports.
- Collaborate closely with software, systems, mission operations, and test engineering teams to ensure requirements traceability and effective verification/validation (V&V).
- Design, implement, and maintain automated test scripts and pipelines (Python-first) for repeatable, high-fidelity autonomy testing.
- Translate integration steps into robust automated regression tests; stand up and maintain test data sets, metrics, and dashboards for mission performance and reliability.
- Use model-based systems engineering (MBSE) artifacts (e.g., SysML/UAF in Cameo) to align autonomy behaviors with mission requirements, interfaces, and constraints.
- Support simulation and mission analysis for autonomy evaluation (e.g., scenario modeling, timing/performance assessments, and interface validation).
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field (Mechanical/Electrical/Systems or equivalent experience welcome).
- 8+ years in systems engineering, controls/automation, software test, integration, or verification roles on complex, safety-critical systems.
- 3+ years testing embedded or real-time C++ applications (space or aerospace/industrial controls preferred).
- Strong proficiency with Python 3 for test automation, data analysis, and tooling.
- Comfortable working in Linux and Windows environments (primarily Linux).
- Experience applying MBSE (e.g., SysML/UAF, Cameo) for requirements traceability, interface definition, and design verification.
- Familiarity with SIL/HIL test environments, digital twins, or closed-loop control/autonomy validation.
- An Active Top Secret/SCI clearance.
Desired Skills
- Experience with mission autonomy test and evaluation (FDIR, autonomy safety cases, scenario-based testing, Monte Carlo methods).
- Tools/frameworks for ML/AI or autonomy (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, RLlib) and safe-autonomy testing concepts.
- Experience with STK/GMAT or similar mission simulation tools for scenario generation and analysis.
- Familiarity with Agile development practices and CI/CD (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab).
- Experience with Java or Scala for tooling or services.
- Background in database programming (MongoDB preferred).
- Containerization experience (Docker).
- Experience with C++20 or newer.
- Scripting/automation within modeling environments (e.g., VTL, Jython in Cameo).
Salary Range: The salary range for this role is $165,000-$200,000. Please note that this range is a general guideline and can vary. Trusted Space, LLC considers several factors when extending an offer including, but not limited to: scope, location, position responsibilities, education/training, key skills and business considerations.
Trusted Space, LLC 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, disability 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.
DISCLAIMER: Trusted Space, LLC 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
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