Chief Engineer - Missile Warning Enterprise; Sr SME

Chief Engineer - Missile Warning Enterprise (Sr SME)

Job Location s: US-CA-El Segundo | US-CO-Aurora

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Category:
Systems Engineer

Required Security Clearance:
Secret (SBI)

Type:
Full-Time

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 a Chief Engineer to serve as the definitive technical authority for a modernized, open‑architecture Missile Warning ground enterprise operating in a high‑tempo delivery environment.

This role is responsible for maintaining and driving system architecture, technical baselines, and system performance, while leading a multi‑disciplined engineering organization and ensuring rigorous engineering practices across development, test, production, and sustainment.

This is a mission‑critical leadership role supporting a Government customer focused on accelerating the delivery of software and hardware into operations using Dev Sec Ops  and CI/CD principles – requiring strong cross‑enterprise collaboration, disciplined configuration management, and consistent engineering rigor across multiple integrated products and stakeholders.

• Act as the enterprise Chief Engineer and primary authority for technical decisions affecting architecture, performance, and system‑level design across the Missile Warning ground enterprise.
• Own and evolve the system architecture and ensure architectural integrity across incremental deliveries, interfaces, and integrated product teams (IPTs).
• Lead and mentor a multi‑disciplined engineering team; manage overall technical performance and ensure execution aligns with mission priorities and operational needs.
• Develop and maintain trusted relationships with customer leadership and stakeholder organizations; ensure needs, goals, and objectives are captured, balanced, and reflected in engineering direction and priorities.
• Support and/or lead system‑level requirements development, allocation, and traceability; ensure coherent integration of hardware/software design and interface control across the enterprise.
• Provide technical leadership for verification and validation (V&V) strategy and execution, including readiness planning and decision‑quality technical assessments.
• Serve as a key stakeholder and decision influencer for major reviews and boards (e.g., engineering reviews, readiness boards, configuration control boards), ensuring technical baselines are controlled and consistent.
• In coordination with the Government Systems Engineering, Integration & Test (SEIT) lead, ensure sound engineering processes are applied across the lifecycle – development, production, test, operations support alignment, and sustainment.
• Maintain cognizance over technical activities across IPTs and drive horizontal integration of best engineering practices across the enterprise (architecture consistency, interface discipline, quality gates, and configuration management).
• Provide independent technical consultation on enterprise risks, performance shortfalls, integration concerns, and improvement opportunities; recommend mitigation strategies and technical path forward.

• 15+ years of directly relevant experience supporting Missile Warning mission systems (ground enterprise, mission processing, command & control, operational acceptance, system engineering, and/or closely related domains).
• Master’s degree in engineering, physics,…