Systems Engineer

Orbit Logic, posted 36 days ago in Engineering.

Description

Job Summary:

Orbit Logic is seeking a talented systems engineer to provide support for new and ongoing contracts and software products, primarily for aerospace scheduling applications.

Job Details:

Candidates must be able to perform full life cycle activities including requirements definition, system design, interface definition, testing, training, and maintenance support. Candidates will be expected to participate in design reviews, documentation reviews (design, users manuals, maintenance manuals), demos and discussions with potential customers, and other team coordination meetings. The position also involves support for marketing and business development activities. Self motivation and the ability to work independently or as part of a team are required. Will interact internally with Project Managers, Software Engineers, IT development, Systems Engineers, and Business Development. Will interact externally with customer technical representatives and program managers.

Requirements

Candidate Requirements:

A college degree in a related field such as engineering, computer science, or physics is required. Minimum 5 years of systems engineering experience related to satellite ground systems in a company is required for this position.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs)

• Required: US Citizen, systems engineering related to satellite
• ground systems, technical documentation, effective communication skills
• Desired: STK, satellite operations experience

Competency Profile

• Competencies
• This position includes but is not limited to:
• Software Process
• Engineering Work Products/Tools, Software Process Engineering and Life Cycle,
• Testing, Technical Learning, Functional / Technical Skills

Additional Information

About Orbit Logic

Orbit Logic, Incorporated, located just outside of Washington, DC, has been providing collection planning and scheduling optimization solutions for imaging, remote sensing, aerospace and geointelligence customers since 2000.

Foremost of these solutions are STK/Schedulerâ„¢ and the Collection Planning System (CPS). Introduced by Orbit Logic in 2002, STK/Schedulerâ„¢ is a flexible scheduling system utilized in spacecraft and aerospace operations worldwide as part of AGI's Satellite Tool Kit suite of tools. The software allows aerospace professionals to model their systems and perform optimized operational scheduling and analysis - right out of the box.

CPS is a customizable and scalable operational architecture for imaging and remote sensing satellites. It utilizes a high fidelity user-specific spacecraft simulator and sophisticated optimization algorithms to produce a collection plan that maximizes the quality and priority of the desired imagery and data.  Available in a stand-alone workstation or server environment for automated planning, CPS can be integrated with any type of spacecraft ground system.

Based on Orbit Logic's years of experience in spacecraft operations and planning systems development, Orbit Logic offers systems and software development and engineering services for collection planning and scheduling applications as well as for command and control and flight dynamics systems.

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