Sr. Principal Spacecraft Systems Engineer / Mission Architect (Systems Engineer, Sr. Principal)

Bring your passion for space!

Redwire is accelerating humanity's expansion into space by delivering reliable, economical and sustainable infrastructure for future generations.

Join our team of innovators and get a chance to work alongside a team of talented, curious people that are passionate about designing and deploying solutions that are accelerating humanity's expansion into space.

We have a current opportunity for a Sr Principal Spacecraft Systems Engineer / Mission Architect, HYBRID-Chantilly VA office . This role leverages your extensive mission and advanced systems design, manufacturing, and operations experience for end-to-end spacecraft systems and payloads. You'll serve as senior technical leader for new mission and systems concepts, driving growth and guiding technology advancements to attract and win major new business.

Responsibilities

• Serves as senior technical leader to the business to develop mission concepts for spacecraft and mission development
• Leverage mission design tools to support end-to-end systems engineering, program plans, schedules, and costing
• Provide thought leadership within Redwire, with our partners, and across the industry
• Generates quantifiable requirements based on customer description, system planning and design, and acquisition logistics
• Ensures requirements comply with client requirements and government standards through formal verification methods
• Translates high level customer objectives, business cases, architectures, and spacecraft development strategies into system requirement specifications and work across engineering disciplines to develop lower-level detailed implementation requirements
• Establishes and coordinates development of standards, practices, and procedures as related to the overall system development.
• Designs interfaces and brings system elements together, so they work as a whole, meeting customer requirements while being competitive
• Efficiently develop cost and schedule competitive technical solutions - drawing on internal and partner expertise
• Develop concepts in schedule, budget, and performance constrained environment
• Assesses performance using evaluation criteria and technical performance measures
• Use MBSE tools and techniques to rapidly develop detailed mission concepts to bid for new business
• Customer liaison and support for business development activities and to understand and shape requirements
• Participates in system conceptual design and documentation of the design concepts
• Generates system level requirements verification procedures and customer acceptance test procedures
• Reviews test plans / procedures and ensures they meet the objectives of the contractual requirements and participates in the testing process to validate requirements
• Technical management of program elements
• Plan and conduct of technical reviews and technical baseline
• Write status and technical performance reviews and reports
• Mentor, coach, train, guide, direct and advise junior staff
• Must be able to recognize and mitigate technical issues and risks while operating within budget and on schedule
• The candidate will work with cross-discipline team members and must have excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to work with a diverse community of engineers and managers to achieve the goals of the program team

Ideal Experience

Active DoD TS / SCI Clearance preferred

Desired Skills

Grow with us as we innovate the next generation capabilities for a new era of space exploration! We offer a highly competitive benefits package along with a commitment to our core values of Integrity, Innovation, Impact, Inclusion, and Excellence.

How We Determine What We Pay (compensation Philosophy)

Redwire determines pay for positions using local, national, and industry-specific survey data, for our locations throughout the US. We will evaluate external equity and the cost of labor / prevailing wage index, in the relative marketplace for jobs directly comparable to jobs within our company.

For new hires, we strive to make competitive offers allowing the new employee room for future growth. Salaries will be based on the applicant's level of experience, education, and specialized knowledge and skills. Additionally, we consider the external market rate, the amount we have budgeted internally, and internal equity within the company for the same position. An employee / candidate with a stronger skill set will be considered for higher pay.

Redwire is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Redwire is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin / ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

All offers of employment at Redwire are contingent upon clear results of a thorough background check and your ability to provide proof of eligibility to work in the US. Note that some positions will also require US citizenship or ability to obtain a security clearance due to requirements of a classified program.

To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the