# Flight Director

The Flight Director leads the systems engineering activities required to define, develop, integrate, verify, and operate complex spacecraft and aerospace systems throughout the product lifecycle. This role translates customer requirements, mission objectives, and system architecture into technical solutions while providing technical leadership for mission execution, operational readiness, and on-orbit spacecraft operations. Working within a multidisciplinary engineering environment, the Senior Systems Engineer collaborates with software, hardware, electrical, mechanical, integration and test, ground systems, and program teams to ensure systems meet technical, operational, cost, and schedule objectives. This role supports programs from concept development through launch and mission operations, driving system integration, technical decision-making, and mission success. ESSENTIAL ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Analyze customer, mission, and system-level requirements and decompose them into clear, verifiable system and subsystem requirements. Ensure requirements maintain end-to-end traceability to customer requirements, system architecture, and Concept of Operations (CONOPS). Define and ma

- **Id**: 181120
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cesiumastro-flight-director>
- **Role**: Leadership
- **Role family**: Leadership
- **Seniority**: head
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Westminster, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-08-12T16:17:19Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-08-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T19:36:27Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 88
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5750
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Embedded & Electronics Design, Satellite Communications, RF & Wireless Hardware

## Company

- **Id**: 5315
- **Name**: CesiumAstro
- **Domain**: cesiumastro.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/cesiumastro>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Lever

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 85
- **Open postings**: 39
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.615
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 47
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 90000
- **Max**: 115000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 115000

## Technologies

- **Cameo Systems Modeler** — Optional: no
- **CATIA** — Optional: no
- **IBM DOORS** — Optional: no
- **MBSE** — Optional: no
- **Microsoft Office** — Optional: no
- **Verification & Validation** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 88

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-08-31T19:13:18Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 2; Filings 12m: 2

## Liveness

- **Score**: 19
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.539
- **P room**: 0.36
- **Age days**: 87
- **Expected fill days**: 47
- **Reasons**: conf:2, stale_co, velocity, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 115000
- **Is top pay**: no

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