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This role is intentionally broad. The engineer may move between mission analysis, architecture, interfaces, technical planning, integration, testing, troubleshooting, risk reduction, and transition activities as program needs evolve.\nThe engineer will help translate operational priorities into executable technical work, connect independently governed efforts, expose weak assumptions, and create the evidence leaders need for timely decisions. Success requires sound technical judgment, intellectual curiosity, disciplined follow-through, and the ability to build trusted relationships across teams with different responsibilities, schedules, and views of the mission architecture. Government decision owners retain all formal authority.\nRole and Responsibilities include:\nTranslate mission needs into technical action. Clarify the operational outcome, mission thread, user workflow, constraints, dependencies, and evidence required for the next technical or acquisition decision.\nDevelop and assess architectures. Create, evaluate, and communicate architecture options, functional boundaries, interfaces, data flows, external dependencies, operational concepts, and technical baselines for complex multi-system capabilities.\nSolve cross-disciplinary problems. Analyze issues spanning hardware, software, networks, data, cybersecurity, operations, test, infrastructure, and sustainment; identify likely causes, consequences, corrective options, and the evidence needed to proceed.\nIntegrate independently governed efforts. Work across program offices, technical teams, operators, laboratories, test organizations, security stakeholders, and industry partners to align interfaces, assumptions, commitments, and delivery timing.\nBuild trusted technical relationships. Understand each team's objectives and constraints, communicate facts without blame, follow through on commitments, and use technical credibility to influence decisions without relying on formal authority.\nFrame decision-ready trade space. Compare options across mission effect, performance, cost, schedule, interoperability, cybersecurity, integration complexity, sustainment, time-to-field, and production scalability.\nDesign rapid learning activities. Define focused analyses, demonstrations, interface events, prototypes, simulations, and knowledge points that test critical assumptions and expose risk before expensive commitment.\nConnect analysis to integration. Translate studies and design decisions into interface agreements, integration criteria, configuration boundaries, data exchanges, test objectives, action owners, and executable milestones.\nSupport testing and operational acceptance. Plan or participate in reviews, laboratory events, mission-thread tests, demonstrations, user evaluations, anomaly resolution, and acceptance activities that confirm the combined capability is usable.\nPreserve modularity and options. Advance open interfaces, modular increments, replaceable components, appropriate data-rights objectives, and competitive technical paths that reduce lock-in and allow capabilities to evolve.\nSynchronize technical delivery. Maintain clear views of dependencies, readiness, risks, decisions, evidence, and technical milestones; identify where work should accelerate, resequence, narrow, pause, or protect schedule margin to preserve an integration window.\nProduce decision-focused products. Develop concise technical papers, architecture and interface views, trade studies, risk and opportunity assessments, integration roadmaps, test summaries, briefings, and action records that move stakeholders to the next decision.\nLead defined technical efforts. Facilitate technical meetings, coordinate contributors, challenge unsupported assumptions, mentor less-experienced teammates, surface blockers early, and maintain accountability through delivery.\nRequired Qualifications:\nBachelor's or advanced degree in electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, software engineering, computer science, mechanical engineering, physics, mathematics, data science, engineering management, or a closely related technical discipline, plus a minimum of 7 years of relevant professional experience.\nBroad engineering experience across several of the following areas: logistics, mission analysis, architecture, hardware, software, networks, communications, data, cybersecurity, integration, testing, modeling, infrastructure, operations, or sustainment.\nDemonstrated ability to understand complex technical problems, identify root causes and dependencies, develop practical solution options, and explain the results of analyses and trade studies to technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nExperience developing or assessing architectures, logistics plans, operational threads, functional boundaries, interfaces, data flows, technical baselines, performance measures, integration criteria, or test evidence for a complex capability.\nExperience integrating multiple products, subsystems, programs, or organizations with different technical assumptions, schedules, ownership boundaries, and levels of maturity.\nAbility to convert operational or technical needs into clear outcomes, constraints, decision points, knowledge points, integration actions, and measurable evidence without over-prescribing a solution too early.\nExperience supporting technical reviews, demonstrations, integration events, test activities, anomaly resolution, user evaluations, or transition to operations.\nDemonstrated ability to build trust across organizational boundaries, influence without formal authority, resolve technical disagreement constructively, and secure clear commitments to shared outcomes.\nAbility to produce concise technical documentation and executive briefings, including architecture options, trade-space analyses, risk views, interface and dependency summaries, integration plans, and decision recommendations.\nStrong organization, communication, and collaboration skills, with the ability to independently lead defined technical efforts in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment.\nAbility to work in a hybrid environment in Albuquerque, New Mexico and support periodic coordination or travel to Colorado Springs, CO and sites, as required.\nActive TS clearance with in-scope T5/SSBI is required, along with SCI eligibility and participation in Continuous Evaluation.\nMust meet all requirements for SCI and SAP access and be willing to undergo a polygraph examination.\nDesired Qualifications:\nMaster's degree in a relevant technical, operational, data, cybersecurity, acquisition, or management discipline.\nExperience with space mission 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