AFCGI Senior System 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 searching for a Senior System Engineer to support the development of a ground infrastructure that supports and enables space and ground elements to prototype new satellite and tactical mission capabilities, demonstrating their scalability and operational utility.

The ideal candidate possesses excellent communication skills and technical expertise in designing, developing, building, and integrating ground systems that provide communications, data management, and operations infrastructure to support mission operations. A successful candidate must be a leader and problem solver with a proven ability to deliver superior results as part of a high-performing team in a high-profile, fast-paced environment. The candidate will apply advanced principles, theories, and concepts in innovative ways for highly classified systems, while also helping implement system engineering processes that ensure successful execution of the program and delivery of the system that achieves the mission requirements.

In this role, the successful candidate will:  

• Take ownership of the system and subsystem design description documentation supporting the system Lifecycle Reviews ensuring alignment with the system architecture and ICDs, both internal and external.
• Support the Requirements development and management for the program including the flow-down allocations, technical budgets, and RVTM development.
• Support coordination with the customer and associated system users to get agreement on overall system approaches and operational constraints.
• Support development of the Interface Control Documentation for various external and internal system interfaces.
• Support development of the architecture description, models, and other architecture products in an agile development environment while meeting mission requirements.
• Translate complex ideas and data into simple, actionable recommendations or easily differentiated courses of action.
• Communicate clearly, concisely, and with technical accuracy—oral and written.
• Support a customer committed to the rapid development of mission capabilities that meet the evolving needs of the warfighter.

Required skills:

• Minimum twelve (12) years of relevant experience on space and ground system development programs for the DoD or IC.
• Experience in the development of ground architectures, networks and cloud environments
• Experience in leading engineering teams with demonstrated success.
• Experience authoring documentation and overall System Engineering experience in the technical design, build, I&T, and transition to operations of satellite systems.
• Understanding of demonstration and operational environments along with the corresponding system and mission user needs.
• Experience with Integrated Master Schedules, and risk management.
• Experience with agile development programs and methodologies.
• Strong writing and analytical skills and ability to develop and present recommendations and solutions for problems/issues.

Desired skills:

• Extensive experience in cloud environment systems and/or management of ground resources, such as ground entry points (GEP).

Education

• Relevant BS in Eng or related STEM degree (MS preferred).

Clearance:

• Active TOP SECRET clearance with sensitive compartmentalized information (SCI) and special access program (SAP) eligibility.
• No less than two (2) years total SAP and/or SCI environment experience and 1-year total within last 5 years.
• Candidate must maintain a TS clearance as a condition of employment and willingness to submit to a Counter-Intelligence polygraph.

This role offers the opportunity to shape next-generation space and ground capabilities for high-priority national security missions, working directly on programs where your expertise drives real operational outcomes.