Space Systems Engineer – Space Protection
Location: Colorado Springs, CO
Clearance Required: Active TS/SCI with Polygraph
Position Description
Stratos Solutions is seeking a Space Systems Engineer to provide Systems Engineering and Technical Advisory (SETA) support to a government customer in Colorado Springs, CO. This position will focus on space protection, mission resilience, systems engineering, and integration of critical space capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Support Government systems engineering and space protection activities across the system lifecycle.
- Assess space mission architectures for threats, vulnerabilities, risks, resilience, survivability, and mission assurance.
- Evaluate protection considerations across spacecraft, ground systems, communications, command and control, and mission operations.
- Support development and evaluation of space protection strategies, requirements, architectures, and courses of action.
- Apply threat-informed systems engineering to identify vulnerabilities, mission impacts, and potential mitigation approaches.
- Review technical documentation and provide clear analysis and recommendations to Government leadership.
- Represent Government interests in engineering reviews, working groups, and technical forums.
- Coordinate across Government, SETA, FFRDC, intelligence, operations, and contractor organizations to resolve technical and mission challenges.
Required Qualifications
- U.S. Citizenship and active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.
- Bachelor’s degree in STEM or relevant field with 3+ years of experience, or Master’s degree with 1+ year of experience.
- Experience with systems engineering processes, including requirements, integration, risk management, and configuration/change management.
- Understanding of space mission architectures and the interaction between space, ground, communications, and mission operations segments.
- Ability to assess complex technical and operational risks and develop actionable recommendations.
- Strong written/verbal communication, collaboration, and customer-facing skills.
- Self-starter capable of managing multiple priorities with minimal supervision.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with space protection, space control, mission assurance, resilience, survivability, or space domain awareness.
- Experience with threat, vulnerability, mission risk, or resiliency assessments for space systems.
- Knowledge of satellite constellations, orbital operations, spacecraft and ground systems, communications, and command and control.
- Understanding of protection concepts including redundancy, disaggregation, proliferation, reconstitution, maneuver, and operational continuity.
- Spacecraft or ground systems operations experience, particularly in degraded or contested environments.
- Familiarity with MBSE/Digital Engineering, Agile, cloud technologies, Jira, and Confluence.
