Senior Advanced Space Systems Engineer

General Dynamics

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Work type: On-site
Location: Chantilly, VA
Salary: $142,696–$158,303 / yr
Posted: 50 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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About General Dynamics

General Dynamics is a global aerospace and defense company offering a broad portfolio of products and services in business aviation, ship construction, land combat vehicles, and information technology. It serves customers in the U.S. government, allied governments, and a diverse array of commercial markets.

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TL;DR · Senior Advanced Space Systems Engineer

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The Sr Advanced Space Systems Engineer joins the GDMS team to analyze, design, develop, and test complex systems, ensuring the seamless integration of software, hardware, reliability, and safety requirements. This role involves requirements management, functional and performance analysis, system design, trade studies, and verification. The engineer will formulate operational concepts, perform risk analysis, and develop signal processing and overall system architectures for space-based systems. Key technical requirements include experience with digital signal processing algorithms, Detection and Estimation Theory, and Communications and Information Theory. Candidates should possess skills in MATLAB, Python, and MBSE tools like MagicDraw or Cameo. The work focuses on developing space payloads, including SmallSats and CubeSats, while addressing technical challenges in radar processing, phased array beamforming, and hardware-in-the-loop systems integration.

Skills

Systems Engineering MBSE SysML Python MATLAB Digital Signal Processing MagicDraw Cameo CI/CD DevOps Agile Hardware in-the-loop Radar Processing Monte Carlo Analysis Space Payloads SmallSats CubeSats

What you'll do

Analyze, design, develop, and test systems to ensure integration of software, hardware, reliability, and safety requirements.
Perform requirements analysis, definition, management, functional analysis, and performance analysis.
Conduct system design, trade studies, systems integration, test verification, and validation.
Formulate operational concepts and perform mission, functional, cost-benefit, and risk analyses.
Develop signal processing architecture and overall system architecture for space-based systems.
Execute hardware prototype development, FlatSat, and hardware-in-the-loop systems integration and testing.
Manage requirements and system modeling using Digital Engineering and Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) tools.

What we're looking for

U.S. citizenship is required.
Department of Defense TS/SCI security clearance is required at time of hire.
Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering or a related Science, Engineering, Technology, or Mathematics field.
8+ years of job-related experience, or a Master's degree plus 6 years of job-related experience.
Agile experience (preferred).
Experience with Digital Engineering/MBSE/SySML/MagicDraw/Cameo (preferred).
Experience in Python (highly preferred).
Experience with SmallSats, CubeSats, or Space Payloads (preferred).

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