Satellite Mission Engr Asc

About the Role

Lockheed Martin in Aurora, Colorado is looking for a Satellite Systems Engineer to join their dynamic team. As part of Double Eagle, you can join one of several groups that perform a variety of different functions. This position requires the successful completion of a certification program and may require you to be on call on a 24/7 rotational basis.

Key Responsibilities

• Operations: Conduct mission/program specific real-time spacecraft/satellite flight operations during readiness, execution and evaluation phases. Develop detailed plans and procedures to provide maximum mission support in areas such as orbit dynamics, satellite performance analysis, and command and control of on-orbit satellites.
• Vehicle Engineering: Support global missions and work on global systems. Develop and continually refine software tools to extract/interpret data, perform trending analysis on system hardware and software, and work under minimal supervision to resolve unexpected software/hardware issues independently and with a team of experts when needed.
• Ground Engineering: Coordinate with internal and external organizations to assess future system changes, address architectural issues, and resolve hardware and software performance issues. Act as a project manager and technical leader while performing engineering activities.
• Mission Engineering: Monitor and evaluate a Radio Frequency environment while effectively mitigating impacts to collection. Monitor, evaluate, and improve collection capabilities.
• Mission Planning: Support systems engineering functions to include developing collection strategies, assisting in software development, coordination with external customers, and triage of discrepancies and their corrective actions.
• Systems Engineering: Assist with planning, implementing, and reporting on systems engineering activities and tasks to meet costs and schedule constraints. Support system level integration and the verification of systems level requirements.
• Conducts mission/program specific real-time spacecraft/satellite flight operations during readiness, execution and evaluation phases.
• Develops detailed plans and procedures to provide maximum mission support in areas such as orbit dynamics, satellite performance analysis, command and control of on-orbit satellites.
• Provides technical direction for on orbit mission support, plans for critical vehicle malfunctions and recommends alternate operating techniques to continue maximum mission support.
• Provides failure analysis of the performance of the orbiting satellites via telemetry data.
• Utilizes system software to accomplish all spacecraft control tasks and recommends improvements.
• Analyzes and validates software performance.
• Performs flight length orbit adjust and daily special event studies.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Experience working with on-orbit spacecraft or satellite flight operations.
• Familiarity in one of the following: LINUX, MATLAB, JAVA, C++, PERL, ORACLE/SQL, HTML, XML or scripting.
• Understanding of software / hardware infrastructure, middleware, and system architectures.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a science and technology related program (STEM) such as Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Systems Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, or related disciplines.
• Strong problem solving skills.
• Strong communication skills.
• Self-initiated learner.
• Works well in group settings.