Kratos Defense & Security Solutions
System Engineer
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States, 80509
Job Descriptions:
Ready for What’s Next? At Kratos, we encourage an entrepreneurial spirit balanced with discipline. We work hard, and take care of our customers, employees, and families. Recognized as thought leaders in our industry, we are motivated by creating and delivering innovative solutions to our nation and global customers. Kratos provides leading-edge capabilities for communication with satellites, spacecraft, missiles, and airborne platforms. From factory test to flight, from ground data networking to RF Links – commercial, intelligence, and defense users trust Kratos to solve their most difficult RF problems. For a more complete overview of our capabilities see http://www.kratosdefense.com/.
This System Engineering position is an exciting opportunity based in Colorado Springs, CO that encompasses dimensions of system engineering and assisting leadership with knowledge of systems development, engineering, and integration. The successful candidate, as part of our engineering team, will work with our management, product, and IR&D teams to help create strategic technical visions, build successful solutions for executing programs, and strengthen our market domination.
Supporting the C-SAR System Engineering team to ensure all engineering contractual requirements and deliverables are met.
Support program Configuration Control Boards (CCBs) and System Engineering IPTs (SEIPTs)
Participate in CDRLs generation and deliveries based on customer prescribed schedule
Requirement’s analysis
System design and architecture
System documentation updates
Perform the role of Product Owner for assigned subsystem
Work closely with system developers, test, and on-site user support personnel to support system updates, analyze and resolve system issues, and ensure project objectives are met.
Provide technical advice to our customers on architectures and potential solutions
Develop and deliver effective customer presentations (support design reviews, status reports, kickoff meetings, test plans) demonstrating an ability to communicate comfortably at a system level
Attend and support highly technical engineering team meetings
Travel as necessary to attend conferences and customer meetings
Required Experience:
5+ years engineering experience
BS in SE, CS, EE, ME, or other engineering equivalent
Support programs through SRR, PDR, CDR or equivalent design reviews
Experience with Microsoft Office products (Excel, Word, Power Point, Visio)
Familiarity with modern IT infrastructure capabilities to include virtualization, cloud deployment and containerization
Candidate must be self-motivated and comfortable with supporting multiple groups of developers, engineers, and testers.
Candidate must be able to articulate technical concepts orally and in written forms both internally to the team as well as externally to the customer and users.
Excellent written and oral communications skills.
Preferred Skills and Experience
Working knowledge of space systems, including ground systems, satellite command and control, RF systems, and system development processes is a plus.
Experience with Agile methodology
Experience with Product Owner
Experience with Atlassian products
Experience with satellite ground systems
Experience with SCN (formally AFSCN)
Experience with SATCOM mission planning
Experience with SecDevOps processes
Model-Based Systems Engineering using Cameo or Enterprise Architect
Security+ certification is not required but is beneficial to the position
#LI-Onsite
The grade-based pay range for this job is listed below. Individual salaries within that range are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, and skills.
This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date.
Competitive salary based on experience and education
Salary Range: $100,000-$130,000
Kratos is valued for our ability to design and deliver leading edge, resilient solutions for aerospace communication, control, awareness and mission success across a continuum of offerings—from commercial to tailored custom solutions and integrated programs. Customers trust us to stay relevant and know we are in it for the long-haul. We bring both the capability and confidence that our customers value and depend on. And, we always deliver.
Keyword: Ground System sustainment, Agile methodology, Product Owner, requirements analysis and decomposition, MBSE Model Based System Engineering, system documentation
Kratos Defense is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws.
Disability Accessibility Accommodation
If you require an accommodation to navigate or apply to our careers site, please send your request to HRAccessibility@kratosdefense.com or call 858-964-2916. Any inquires not related to requesting an accommodation will be discarded.
Pay Transparency
The company will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.
Job Applicant Privacy Notice
For applicants in the EU and California residents, please review our privacy notice.
From: Kratos Defense
Ready for What’s Next? At Kratos, we encourage an entrepreneurial spirit balanced with discipline. We work hard, and take care of our customers, employees, and families. Recognized as thought leaders in our industry, we are motivated by creating and delivering innovative solutions to our nation and global customers. Kratos provides leading-edge capabilities for communication with satellites, spacecraft, missiles, and airborne platforms. From factory test to flight, from ground data networking to RF Links – commercial, intelligence, and defense users trust Kratos to solve their most difficult RF problems. For a more complete overview of our capabilities see http://www.kratosdefense.com/.
This System Engineering position is an exciting opportunity based in Colorado Springs, CO that encompasses dimensions of system engineering and assisting leadership with knowledge of systems development, engineering, and integration. The successful candidate, as part of our engineering team, will work with our management, product, and IR&D teams to help create strategic technical visions, build successful solutions for executing programs, and strengthen our market domination.
Supporting the C-SAR System Engineering team to ensure all engineering contractual requirements and deliverables are met.
Support program Configuration Control Boards (CCBs) and System Engineering IPTs (SEIPTs)
Participate in CDRLs generation and deliveries based on customer prescribed schedule
Requirement’s analysis
System design and architecture
System documentation updates
Perform the role of Product Owner for assigned subsystem
Work closely with system developers, test, and on-site user support personnel to support system updates, analyze and resolve system issues, and ensure project objectives are met.
Provide technical advice to our customers on architectures and potential solutions
Develop and deliver effective customer presentations (support design reviews, status reports, kickoff meetings, test plans) demonstrating an ability to communicate comfortably at a system level
Attend and support highly technical engineering team meetings
Travel as necessary to attend conferences and customer meetings
Required Experience:
5+ years engineering experience
BS in SE, CS, EE, ME, or other engineering equivalent
Support programs through SRR, PDR, CDR or equivalent design reviews
Experience with Microsoft Office products (Excel, Word, Power Point, Visio)
Familiarity with modern IT infrastructure capabilities to include virtualization, cloud deployment and containerization
Candidate must be self-motivated and comfortable with supporting multiple groups of developers, engineers, and testers.
Candidate must be able to articulate technical concepts orally and in written forms both internally to the team as well as externally to the customer and users.
Excellent written and oral communications skills.
Preferred Skills and Experience
Working knowledge of space systems, including ground systems, satellite command and control, RF systems, and system development processes is a plus.
Experience with Agile methodology
Experience with Product Owner
Experience with Atlassian products
Experience with satellite ground systems
Experience with SCN (formally AFSCN)
Experience with SATCOM mission planning
Experience with SecDevOps processes
Model-Based Systems Engineering using Cameo or Enterprise Architect
Security+ certification is not required but is beneficial to the position
#LI-Onsite
The grade-based pay range for this job is listed below. Individual salaries within that range are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, and skills.
This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date.
Competitive salary based on experience and education
Salary Range: $100,000-$130,000
Kratos is valued for our ability to design and deliver leading edge, resilient solutions for aerospace communication, control, awareness and mission success across a continuum of offerings—from commercial to tailored custom solutions and integrated programs. Customers trust us to stay relevant and know we are in it for the long-haul. We bring both the capability and confidence that our customers value and depend on. And, we always deliver.
Keyword: Ground System sustainment, Agile methodology, Product Owner, requirements analysis and decomposition, MBSE Model Based System Engineering, system documentation
Kratos Defense is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws.
Disability Accessibility Accommodation
If you require an accommodation to navigate or apply to our careers site, please send your request to HRAccessibility@kratosdefense.com or call 858-964-2916. Any inquires not related to requesting an accommodation will be discarded.
Pay Transparency
The company will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.
Job Applicant Privacy Notice
For applicants in the EU and California residents, please review our privacy notice.
From: Kratos Defense