# Senior Spacecraft Systems Engineer - Optical Comms

The Senior Spacecraft Systems Engineer - Optical Comms is responsible for leading the systems engineering activities required to define, develop, integrate, verify, and support complex aerospace systems throughout the product lifecycle. This role translates mission objectives, customer requirements, and system architecture into technical solutions that enable successful system integration and mission execution. Working within a multidisciplinary engineering environment, the Senior Systems Engineer collaborates with software, hardware, mechanical, electrical, manufacturing, integration and test, mission operations, and program management teams to ensure systems meet technical, operational, cost, and schedule objectives. This role provides technical leadership from concept development through design, integration, verification, launch, and operational support while contributing to technical decision-making and risk management. ESSENTIAL ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Analyze customer, mission, and system-level requirements and decompose them into clear, verifiable system and subsystem requirements. Establish clear definitions for all hardware and software interfaces between optical commun

- **Id**: 3992145
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cesiumastro-senior-spacecraft-systems-engineer-optical-comms-3>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Westminster, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T20:55:08Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T11:03:25Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5652
- **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**: 40
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.6
- **Repost share**: 0.025
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 48
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 133000
- **Max**: 161000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 161000

## Technologies

- **Bitbucket** — Optional: no
- **Cameo Systems Modeler** — Optional: no
- **CATIA** — Optional: no
- **Confluence** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **GitLab** — Optional: no
- **IBM DOORS** — Optional: no
- **Jira** — Optional: no
- **MBSE** — Optional: no
- **Microsoft Office** — Optional: no
- **SharePoint** — Optional: no
- **Verification & Validation** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T23:49:25Z

## 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**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 48
- **Reasons**: conf:3, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 161000
- **Is top pay**: no

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