# Senior Spacecraft Systems Engineer – Software

The Senior Spacecraft Systems Engineer - Software is responsible for translating system-level operational concepts, customer requirements, and architecture into detailed software requirements, verification strategies, and integrated technical solutions for complex embedded systems. This role serves as a critical bridge between Systems Engineering and Software Engineering, ensuring requirements are properly decomposed, traceable, testable, and aligned to overall program objectives. The position is organizationally aligned within the Systems Engineering function while working closely day-to-day with the Software Engineering team to support planning, development, integration, and verification activities. This role is instrumental in defining software verification approaches, required hardware/software configurations, and ensuring system functionality meets mission and performance objectives. ESSENTIAL ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Requirements Decomposition & Flow Down Analyze customer, mission, and system-level requirements and decompose them into clear, verifiable software-level requirements. Ensure software requirements maintain traceability to higher-level system requirements, archit

- **Id**: 3992143
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cesiumastro-senior-spacecraft-systems-engineer-software-4>
- **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**: 2026-11-09T20:58:06Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T23:49:25Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4507
- **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**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 133908
- **Max**: 160991
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 160991

## Technologies

- **Bash** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **TCP/IP** — Optional: no
- **Unix** — Optional: no
- **Windows** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## 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**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 47
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T02:21:11Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 160991
- **Is top pay**: no

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