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This role leads the technical planning, requirements development, integration, verification, and lifecycle execution of advanced space-based systems supporting national security objectives. The Lead Systems Engineer works across multidisciplinary teams to ensure that payload, bus, software, ground, and mission interfaces are defined, allocated, and managed in alignment with program goals and customer expectations. This position is responsible for guiding system architecture trades, assessing technical risk, and driving balanced solutions that meet performance, schedule, cost, and mission assurance requirements. The role supports the decomposition of mission needs into actionable system and subsystem requirements and ensures traceability throughout design, integration, and test activities. The Lead Systems Engineer also serves as a key technical interface with customers, partners, and internal stakeholders, representing system-level priorities, issues, and recommendations. 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