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You will provide subject matter expertise to support customer decisions with respect to contractors’ development of spaceborne RF signal processing payloads, ground processing systems, and overall mission capabilities. You will work in customer facilities in El Segundo, CA, directly sitting with our customers to provide our support.\nYou will perform the following duties and \"fun stuff\":\nResponsible for acting as primary technical oversight for the development, build, verification and deployment of Space RF payloads, providing Government leadership, as needed, recommend course corrections to the payload design and build through delivery.\nRequirements generation.\nEvaluation and compliance assessments to generated requirements and requirements flow down.\nConcept design evaluation and analysis of alternatives.\nAssessments of Critical Technology Elements (CTE), Technology Readiness Assessments (TRAs) and Manufacturing Readiness Assessments (MRAs).\nConcept of Operations (CONOPS) development.\nProvide technical oversight of payload integration process onto candidate spacecraft.\nProvide technical oversight of transition to operations to include the development, operator training, payload 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