Staff Systems Engineer and Product - Flight Operations Software
Maxar Technologies2 months ago
Westminster, CO, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$105k - $154k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own systems engineering and product ownership activities for Flight Operations Software spanning spacecraft commanding, real-time telemetry processing, ground systems, and mission operations.
- Translate mission, spacecraft, ground, and operational needs into software capabilities, Epics, User Stories, and Acceptance Criteria.
- Prioritize the FOS development backlog across mission needs, architecture, technical debt, integration dependencies, and operational priorities.
- Develop and maintain system architectures and MBSE models defining behaviors, interfaces, dependencies, and operational flows.
- Define and maintain service APIs and interfaces between FOS and adjacent ground-system services.
- Drive technical decisions and trades across spacecraft, ground, flight software, mission operations, and software development teams.
- Partner with software engineers through design, implementation, integration, verification, deployment, and operational use.
- Identify architectural, interface, and integration risks and drive cross-functional resolution.
- Support integration and verification of FOS capabilities across spacecraft, ground, and operational interfaces.
- Contribute to enterprise architecture, engineering practices, and the long-term mission-systems architectural roadmap.
Requirements
- U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain a United States Government Secret Security Clearance are required.
- Bachelor’s degree in systems engineering, aerospace engineering, computer science, software engineering, electrical engineering, or another relevant technical discipline is required.
- At least 5 years of relevant industry experience developing, integrating, or operating aerospace, spacecraft, ground, command-and-control, or similarly complex technical systems is required.
- Working knowledge of spacecraft command-and-control and space-to-ground architectures, including commanding, real-time telemetry flows, and spacecraft-ground-flight software interactions.
- Experience across systems architecture, requirements, interfaces, integration, verification, and operational deployment.
- Experience applying Model-Based Systems Engineering to define architectures, interfaces, behaviors, and dependencies.
- Experience defining and maintaining service APIs and interfaces in service-oriented or distributed software systems.
- Experience translating stakeholder needs into software capabilities, requirements, Epics, User Stories, Acceptance Criteria, and prioritized development work.
- Experience with Agile software development and direct collaboration with software teams across the development lifecycle.
- Strong technical judgment, cross-disciplinary decision-making, communication, ownership, initiative, and accountability.
- Preferred experience with spacecraft flight operations software, mission control systems, ground software, command-and-control systems, or flight-system integration and operations.
- Preferred experience with distributed, service-oriented, event-driven, or mission-critical systems and architectures such as REST, gRPC, or publish/subscribe.
- Preferred experience with CCSDS, Space Packet Protocol, CFDP, real-time telemetry pipelines, system models, interface definitions, API specifications, sequence diagrams, or state models.
- Preferred experience with SysML and MBSE tools such as Ansys, Enterprise Architect, or Cameo Systems Modeler.
- Preferred familiarity with containerized services, automated testing, cloud or hybrid infrastructure, Jira Cloud, product roadmaps, and high-reliability operational systems.
Benefits
- Hybrid schedule with office attendance generally on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays and work from home on Mondays and Fridays.
- Competitive total rewards package including a 401(k) with company match, mental health resources, student loan repayment assistance, adoption reimbursement, and pet insurance.
- The position is incentive eligible, with the target determined by role scope, contribution, company performance, and/or individual results.
- The application window is three days from posting and remains open until a qualified candidate is identified.
Tech Stack
gRPC
Categories
About Maxar Technologies
Maxar Technologies builds and operates commercial Earth‑observation satellites and sells high‑resolution imagery, 3D products, and geospatial analytics to government, defense, and enterprise customers. Headquartered in Westminster, Colorado, the company was formed in 2017 from the merger of DigitalGlobe and MDA and was acquired by Advent International in 2023; it supplies data for national security, mapping, and disaster response, and licenses imagery through subscription and platform APIs.