SIGINT Flight Engineer

FTS International, LLC (FTS) is committed to providing the Federal Government with quality consultants and support. To ensure mission success we focus on putting our customers first while minimizing corporate bureaucracy on our staff. We provide Subject Matter Experts (SME) free of Organizational Conflicts of Interest (OCI) focused on independent analysis and mission support services within the disciplines of Engineering, Counter Terrorism Operations, Management, Information Technology, Signals Analysis, Administration, Cyber Security and Linguistics.

FTS has an opportunity for a SIGINT Flight Engineer in Aurora, CO.

The SIGINT Flight Engineer will provide Systems Engineering and Technical Advisory (SETA) services focused on SIGINT collection systems and systems engineering.

Responsibilities

Represent the government in executing spacecraft integration, test, launch, and on-orbit operations

Conduct anomaly support, launch and mission readiness, and end-to-end space systems architecture analysis

Maintain close communications with the program acquisition office and customer engineering organizations providing recommendations on risk level of spacecraft activities

Oversee day-to-day execution of mission operations and processes to ensure proper attention to health, safety, and effective use of national resources

Provide launch and mission readiness subject matter expertise to operations and engineering including readiness for launch, spacecraft initialization, and transition to mission Required Skills/Qualifications

TS/SCI with polygraph

BS STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math) in engineering discipline

9 years' relevant experience

Experience in spacecraft, payload, and launch vehicle engineering as well as mission readiness process, control gates, and associated entry/exit criteria.

SIGINT systems engineering expertise, and significant space and ground systems domain knowledge

Technical familiarity with SIGINT system's payloads, subsystems, and technical capabilities

Self-starter, proactively addresses customer requirements with no supervision; readily defines solutions for broad, abstract topics

Polished communicator (written/verbal); impeccable interpersonal skills and personal judgment Desired Skills/Qualifications

Real-time operations experience as a spacecraft operator or spacecraft engineer, familiar with space operations/policies

4-years' experience in initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, controlling, and/or closing DoD or Intelligence Community projects or Programs

Familiar with Digital Engineering/Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and associated tools, Agile development, cloud technologies

Contract management/COTR support experience

Experience with Jira, Confluence

FTS International, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer - vets/disabled.