[Remote] Mission Operations and Controls Engineer/Specialist: Orbital Analyst
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Sierra Space is an industry-leading space and defense technology company providing satellites, spacecraft, and enabling mission systems and components. They are seeking a skilled Orbital Analyst to monitor and analyze the position and velocity of artificial objects in Earth orbit or deep space, perform precise orbit determination, and ensure mission success through collaboration with flight operations mission teams.
Responsibilities
- Continuously monitoring the position and velocity of artificial objects in Earth orbit or deep space
- Applying mathematical models and observational data to precisely calculate orbital parameters
- Predicting potential close approaches between objects and recommending necessary avoidance maneuvers
- Designing optimal trajectories for spacecraft launches, orbital transfers, and reentries
- Tracking and cataloging space debris to help prevent dangerous collisions
- Assessing the risk of collision between various space objects
- Developing and using tools to perform precise orbit determination using specialized software tools
- Monitoring and analyzing spacecraft and satellite trajectories while supporting mission planning through trajectory design and optimization
- Maintaining space catalogs and applicable processes that enable mission execution
- Generating detailed reports on conjunction events and close approaches
- Specifying, architecting, and integrating complex system solutions while collaborating with cross-functional teams and subject matter experts to understand project requirements and objectives
- Deriving, decomposing, allocating, tracing, and managing system requirements and architectures
- Defining and documenting system concepts of operation
- Supporting development milestone reviews by creating artifacts and deliverables
- Overseeing system integration and verification activities to ensure system functionality and performance
- Identifying and managing technical risks, developing mitigation strategies, and contributing to continuous improvement initiatives by identifying areas for enhancement
- Adhering to established engineering processes and standards
- Communicating effectively with team members and stakeholders to ensure project alignment and successful execution
Skills
- Requires Bachelor's degree in a related field (or equivalent work experience in lieu of degree or Masters +3 yrs experience)
- Typically 5+ years of related experience (or Masters + 3 years of experience)
- Emerging expertise in Systems Engineering principles and practices, including a thorough understanding of the systems development lifecycle
- Knowledge of requirements management, functional requirements parsing, derivation, and allocation
- Knowledge of systems architecture, systems integration, and Verification and Validation (V&V) principles
- Emerging ability to work and communicate with technical and specialty subject matter expert engineers to drive systems engineering products
- An active Top Secret U.S. Security Clearance is required
- Knowledge of spacecraft mission planning, scheduling, and orbit analysis
- Experience with astrodynamics libraries, propagators, etc
- Experience working commercial and/or government Space Domain Awareness programs
- Extensive experience or education in orbital mechanics
- Ability to script, C, C++, Python, JavaScript, Ruby or related programming experience
- Experience with Government Cloud Architectures (GovCloud or others)
- Extensive experience or education in RPOD
- Experience with C2 and TT&C Software Development
- Full Stack Developer
- Cloudera, OpenShift, Kubernetes experience; either on or working with software, DevSecOps, etc teams
Company Overview