Our client, a leading federal defense contractor has multiple long-term contract openings for Missile Tracking Systems Engineers to design Traffic Data Models for the US Space Force Space Development Agency (SDA) Ground, Management and Integration (GMI) program.

This role is Hybrid (onsite 3-days per week) and can be staffed in Scottsdale, AZ, Huntsville, AL, Chantilly, VA or San Jose, CA.

You will be a key member of a cross-functional team responsible for developing and deploying state-of-the-art ground operational systems for the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA). Additionally, you will be part of an elite team providing the evolution, expansion, integration, testing and maintenance of the ground entry points, operations centers, enterprise test and checkout capabilities and infrastructure management, including all development, systems engineering, integration, testing, maintenance, and site support.

Traffic Modeling Key Responsibilities:

- Systems engineering that includes decomposing requirements into modeling of the traffic data flow from a satellite constellation to the ground network
- Pre-planned or ad-hoc scheduling and satellite services to track missiles
- Analysis of missile tracking data to validate the traffic model
- Identifies opportunities to apply AI for continuous improvement and innovation

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Missile Tracking Key Responsibilities:

- Systems engineering that includes decomposing requirements into architecture, internal and external interfaces, and system design behaviors
- Pre-planned or ad-hoc scheduling and situational awareness of satellites and payloads capabilities to track missiles
- Analysis and fusion of missile tracking data provided by satellite to the ground for processing and rapidly providing and disseminating the information
- Identifies opportunities to apply AI for continuous improvement and innovation.

Required Skills

- Must be US Citizen due to government requirement
- Requires active DoD Secret clearance
- Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, or a related Science, Engineering, Technology or Mathematics field. Also requires 2+ years of job-related experience, or a Master's degree and 6 months of job-related experience.
- Agile experience preferred

Traffic Modeling Technical Skills:

- Prefer recent modeling of communication data, preferably using satellite constellations and ground networks
- Prefer recent Satellite to Ground RF communication protocol experience, end to end packet prioritization and routing, or traffic modeling experience

Missile Tracking Technical Skills:

- Prefer recent designing and developing systems that can solve complex problems using algorithms
- Prefer recent algorithm development and tuning for specific mission parameters

Bonus Skills You Might Bring:

- Recent experience with missile tracking systems design and architecture, and sensor fusion techniques
- Recent experience designing logic, assessing and scheduling satellite services to track missiles
- Knowledge of cloud technologies and their application in system design and deployment
- Experience with image processing (collection, handling, storing, and analysis)