Senior Systems Engineer

Stellar Solutions, a nationally recognized “Great Place To Work”, has exciting opportunities providing Engineering solutions for innovative new-entrant space companies, as well as established space systems manufacturers, commercial space system operators and service providers, and other industry stakeholders including investors.  

At Stellar Solutions, we offer talented, energetic, and immediately productive resources to satisfy our customers’ critical needs in systems engineering and integration, mission operations, program management and strategic planning. We are a leading service and expertise provider for high-tech commercial ventures, spanning communications, earth observation and remote sensing systems and data products, to the infrastructures that support earth orbiting and beyond earth orbit businesses.

Stellar Solutions is seeking an experienced and accomplished Senior Systems Engineer to support fast-paced operational projects. The candidate will work with senior management, technical project directors, systems engineers, customer stakeholders, mission partners, and development contractors to ensure systems are deployed properly and maintained throughout the mission lifecycle.

Responsibilities for this role include:

• The Systems Engineer should be able to plan, implement, test, and document enterprise-wide solutions for total systems or subsystems using internally created and/or off the shelf products
• This includes analyzing and identifying all or part of the customer's existing or new systems requirements, taking into consideration the special technology needs, and establishing functional and technical specifications and standards, solving interface problems, defining input/output parameters, and ensuring integration of the entire system or subsystem
• The Systems Engineer will be responsible for strategic level planning and roadmap development, working with all the teams in the area
• Perform traditional Systems Engineering at the enterprise/strategic level within the context of the political landscape, operational restrictions and changes, and interacting systems across the customer's organization
• Provide project management support with short turn-around projects; development of requirements, project plans, needs assessment, transition planning, and future looking roadmaps
• Perform innovation research relevant to the project areas within the strategic roadmap
• Be a self-starter with leadership capabilities and execution of roles and responsibilities with little to no supervision
• Require minimal oversight to complete tasks in a timely manner
• Identify integration issues and coordinate Technical Exchange Meetings (TEMs) to resolve them
• Establish and maintain interpersonal relationships, as well as handle complaints, settle disputes and resolve conflicts

Qualifications

• Have demonstrated experience leading technical teams to develop/implement hardware/software requirements
• Have demonstrated ability to quickly ramp up to support the customer's needs, clearly communicate (orally & written) ideas, work autonomously, take the initiative to provide creative alternatives to intractable challenges or systemic problems
• Have ability to influence others and move toward a common vision or goal
• Have demonstrated strong customer and partner relationship building skills
• BS/BA and 12-15 years of experience OR MS and 10-13 years of experience, or Phd 8-10 years of experience
• Technical Degree (Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, etc.)
• IC or DoD experience
• TS/SCI with CI Poly level clearance is required

Desired Skills

• Experience with software development lifecycle within a SAFE agile framework
• Experience with building CI/CD pipeline
• Exposure to Atlassian product suite
• Experience with MS Project
• Experience with Magic Draw or any MBSE tools

Drive mission-critical innovation at the enterprise level—this role blends systems engineering, strategic planning, and technical leadership to shape the future of national security systems. If you're a self-starter who thrives on solving complex integration challenges, this is where your impact will be felt across the entire enterprise