Systems Engineering Fellow

Remote Opportunities

This position offers FULLY REMOTE opportunities for candidates across the United States. Preferred locations:
Arlington VA, Denver CO or Merritt Island, FL

Overview

Airbus U.S. Space & Defense, Inc offers advanced solutions to meet the most complex U.S. defense, security, space, and intelligence requirements. Celebrating over 50 years in the US, we remain a trusted government partner, leveraging world‑class satellite, laser communication, rotor and fixed wing solutions to help our national security, defense and space focused customers meet their missions.

Airbus U.S. looks to employ a commitment driven team, dedicated to enabling our customer's mission success. We are committed to maintaining a diverse and inclusive work environment and a welcoming and engaging staff. With competitive compensation and superior employee benefits, as well as a commitment to fostering individual career growth, Airbus U.S. is the place where top talent wants to work.

Position

Summary

Airbus U.S. is looking for an enthusiastic and creative Systems Engineering Fellow to lead development of new satellite and aerospace systems. We're looking for candidates who can bring exceptional engineering skills and strong experience in aerospace programs to the team.

Position Responsibilities

The Engineering Fellow will be primarily responsible for leading the Avionics development and integration of satellite programs. This role will lead and support program execution through the full project lifecycle, from requirement development, architecture development and trades, specification development, requirements verification, compliance assessment, and operations. The Engineering Fellow will lead subsystem and program design reviews and support configuration management and engineering review boards, technical planning, system integration, and risk and opportunity management.

This role will also have responsibility in the technical growth of Airbus U.S., providing their expertise to mentor junior staff members, develop processes and procedures, and build engineering rigor into the culture of the company. Being at the cutting edge of space technology, we need someone who is eager to learn, grow, and take on new and potentially unfamiliar challenges.

There is no shortage of fascinating problems to solve.

The Engineering Fellow is an industry expert in several aspects of aerospace product development, delivery, and/or operations. The Engineering Fellow will provide strong technical leadership and project / team management support for complex assignments, under the leadership of the Director of Engineering. The Engineering Fellow will have program and subject matter responsibility and authority.

Program Engineering - 75%

• Execute Engineering responsibilities for Airbus U.S. satellite programs:
  • Functional Avionics - requirements and use case definitions, hardware / software integration
  • Requirements development - initial definition, decomposition and flowdown, management
  • System design and trade studies - high level concept trades to support subsequent detail design
  • Program design review planning, management, presentation to customers (internal and external)
  • Verification planning and testing - verification matrices, buy-off / sell-off, test planning, etc
• Lead Functional Avionics architecture definition and trades. Support program execution through the integration and testing of multiple hardware and software subsystems to achieve high-level objectives.

Roadmap Development - 15%

• Support the Airbus spacecraft development product roadmap: includes technology insertion, schedule, and cost targets aligned for future business captures.
• Support the definition of spacecraft customization process for customer mission needs.

Additional Responsibilities - 10%

• Perform all the necessary systems engineering activities to build, to maintain and to evolve the Airbus spacecraft products.
• Promote and optimize cost savings by reuse of the heritage platform designs and manufacturing infrastructures in the pursuit of various constellation prospects.

Qualified Experience / Skills / Training Education

• Required:
  
  Bachelors degree in STEM (Science, Technical, Engineering, Math) or related scientific areas
• Strongly Preferred:
  Masters in STEM (Science, Technical, Engineering, Math) or related scientific areas.

Experience

• A minimum of 25 years with a Bachelor's degree, or 20 years with a Master's degree
• Proven track‑record of working with aerospace hardware and/or software systems, starting from conceptual designs and tradeoffs thru detailed design, development, manufacture, integration, test, deployment, and operations.

Knowledge, Skills, Demonstrated Capabilities

• Subject matter expert in several elements of space mission architectures extending beyond the satellite platform - including launch, flight operations, mission CONOPS, user interfaces, etc.
• Experience with systems architecture, requirements definition and decomposition, and requirements verification and validation (System…