Jr. GEOINT Flight Engineer

Noblis ESI has an opportunity for GEOINT Flight Engineer to provide systems engineering and technical advisory services in Chantilly, VA.  As the government’s trusted systems engineer for GEOINT mission systems, the candidate assists the government plan and oversee the integration of GEOINT satellites and mission capabilities to serve the nation’s intelligence needs. 

Responsibilities include: 

• Serves as the government’s technical advisor for GEOINT mission systems, from spacecraft bus and payloads, command and control and processing systems, to various operational constructs.
• Assist the government in identifying mission needs, operational concepts, and requirements to effectively influence acquisition and budget efforts.
• Assess integration activities in the context of cross-systems dependencies (technical, resource, and schedule) and present unbiased findings, analysis, and recommendations to government managers.
• Provide “ground truth” technical assessments of project or system reviews, milestones, and/or decision gates; identify risks, issues, opportunities, mitigations; represent the government’s interests with other stakeholders.
• Support government requests for systems engineering and integration studies, process analysis and design, project management assessments, etc.; provide analysis, recommendations, and take necessary actions.
• Support the development or assessment of system Concept of Operations, Requirements Documents, Test Plans, Contract Statements of Work, Systems Engineering Plans, as well as contribute to the “staff work” needs of the government (e.g., action items, weekly reports, etc.) to include support to government acquisitions and source selections.
• Proactively collaborate with government personnel and other contractors (often across multiple sites and organizational levels) to provide unbiased analysis and recommendations on courses of actions to address risks/issues or approaches to exploit an opportunity.

• Must be a U.S. Citizen. 
• Active TS/SCI with Counterintelligence Polygraph. 
• Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) or relevant field and 3+ years of experience OR a Master's degree in STEM or relevant field and 1+ years of relevant experience.
• Technical knowledge of spacecraft systems (bus, payload) and subsystems (attitude and control systems, propulsion, life support systems, etc.), ground communications and mission data processing systems, space vehicle mission planning and command and control systems.
• Knowledge of orbital mechanics and associated analytical tools.
• Experience with GEOINT mission (ground and space) systems.
• Familiar with mission readiness process, control gates, and associated entry/exit criteria.
• Forward thinking self-starter, proactively addresses customer requirements without supervision; readily defines solutions for broad, abstract topics.
• Polished, persuasive communicator (written/verbal), master at collaboration and coordination with multiple stakeholders -- consensus builder.
• Impeccable interpersonal skills and personal judgment—confident interacting with highest levels of government senior executives.
• Familiar with Digital Engineering/Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), Agile development, cloud technologies.

• Real-time operations experience as a spacecraft operator, spacecraft engineer or ground systems operator, familiar with space operations/policies.

Noblis and our wholly owned subsidiaries, Noblis ESI, and Noblis MSD tackle the nation's toughest problems and apply advanced solutions to our clients' most critical missions. We bring the best of scientific thought, management, and engineering expertise together in an environment of independence and objectivity to deliver enduring impact on federal missions. Noblis works with a wide range of government clients in the defense, intelligence and federal civil sectors. Learn more at Noblis -About Us

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