# Senior Spacecraft Systems Engineer - Payload

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 the payload and the space vehicle Ensure requirements maintain end-to-end traceability to customer requirements, system architecture, and Concept of Operations (CONOPS). Define and manage hardware, software, electrical, mechanical, and data interfaces between system elements. Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to refine requirements for completeness, feasibility, technical accuracy, and manufacturability. Support requirements management, configuration management, baseline control, and engineering change activities. Identify technical risks, requirement gaps, ambiguities, and design issues early in the development lifecycle. Support system architecture development, technical trade studies, and engineering analyses to evaluate design alternatives and optimize system performance. Develop system verification and validation strategies, including verification methods (test, analysis, demonstration, and inspection), acceptance c

- **Id**: 3992144
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cesiumastro-senior-spacecraft-systems-engineer-payload-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**: 2026-11-09T20:56:37Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T06:35:14Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4521
- **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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