GEOINT Flight Engineer

GEOINT Flight Engineer

Target Labor Category:
Junior

Position Location:

Chantilly, VA (Customer Site)

Clearance Required:

TS/SCI with Polygraph

Stratos Solutions has an opportunity for a GEOINT Flight Engineer to support an Intelligence Community (IC) Space customer in Chantilly, VA. The selected candidate will serve as a trusted systems engineering advisor supporting the integration, readiness, and operational oversight of GEOINT mission systems.

This role provides mission-focused systems engineering and technical advisory support across spacecraft, payload, ground, and processing architectures. The successful candidate will assist the government in planning, evaluating, and overseeing the integration of GEOINT satellite capabilities to meet national intelligence objectives. The position requires strong technical depth across space systems and the ability to provide independent, unbiased engineering assessments to senior government leadership.

If you are passionate about advancing GEOINT mission capabilities and ensuring technical rigor across space systems integration, we encourage you to apply.

Stratos Solutions delivers mission-focused engineering, acquisition, and operations support to the Intelligence Community and national security space enterprise. As an employee-owned company, Stratos combines technical excellence, operational agility, and a deep commitment to customer mission success. Our teams work at the forefront of space and intelligence innovation supporting programs critical to national security.

The GEOINT Flight Engineer will provide systems engineering and technical advisory support across GEOINT space and ground mission systems.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Serve as a trusted technical advisor supporting GEOINT mission systems across spacecraft bus, payload, command and control, mission planning, and data processing architectures.

• Provide objective, independent assessments of technical performance, integration activities, and system readiness.

• Represent government interests in technical discussions with program stakeholders and contractor teams.

• Assess integration activities in the context of cross-system dependencies including technical, resource, and schedule considerations.

• Identify risks, issues, and opportunities; develop mitigation strategies and actionable recommendations.

• Evaluate project reviews, program milestones, and decision gates, providing “ground truth” technical assessments.

• Assist the government in identifying mission needs, operational concepts, and requirements to inform acquisition and budget efforts.

• Support development or assessment of:

  • Concept of Operations (CONOPS)

  • Requirements Documents

  • Test Plans

  • Contract Statements of Work (SOWs)

  • Systems Engineering Plans (SEPs)

• Provide support to government acquisition efforts and source selections.

• Support systems engineering and integration studies, process analysis, and project management assessments.

• Provide technical analysis and recommendations supporting mission performance, readiness, and long-term planning.

• Contribute to staff coordination activities including action items, weekly reports, and executive-level briefings.

• Collaborate proactively with government personnel and contractor teams across multiple organizational levels and sites.

• Present technical findings and recommendations to senior government managers and executives.

• Facilitate coordination and consensus across diverse technical stakeholders.

• Bachelor’s Degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Aerospace Engineering, or related technical field)
  (Master’s degree in STEM with relevant experience preferred)

• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph

• U.S. Citizenship

• Technical knowledge of spacecraft systems including bus and payload architectures and key subsystems (e.g., attitude determination and control, propulsion, communications).

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