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Job Descriptions:

Ready for What’s Next? At Kratos, we encourage an entrepreneurial spirit balanced with discipline. We work hard, and take care of our customers, employees, and families. Recognized as thought leaders in our industry, we are motivated by creating and delivering innovative solutions to our nation and global customers. Kratos provides leading-edge capabilities for communication with satellites, spacecraft, missiles, and airborne platforms. From factory test to flight, from ground data networking to RF Links – commercial, intelligence, and defense users trust Kratos to solve their most difficult RF problems. For a more complete overview of our capabilities see http://www.kratosdefense.com/.

This System Engineering position is an exciting opportunity based in Colorado Springs, CO that encompasses dimensions of system engineering and assisting leadership with knowledge of systems development, engineering, and integration. The successful candidate, as part of our engineering team, will work with our management, product, and IR&D teams to help create strategic technical visions, build successful solutions for executing programs, and strengthen our market domination.

+ Supporting the C-SAR System Engineering team to ensure all engineering contractual requirements and deliverables are met.

+ Support program Configuration Control Boards (CCBs) and System Engineering IPTs (SEIPTs)

+ Participate in CDRLs generation and deliveries based on customer prescribed schedule

+ Requirement’s analysis

+ System design and architecture

+ System documentation updates

+ Perform the role of Product Owner for assigned subsystem

+ Work closely with system developers, test, and on-site user support personnel to support system updates, analyze and resolve system issues, and ensure project objectives are met.

+ Provide technical advice to our customers on architectures and potential solutions

+ Develop and deliver effective customer presentations (support design reviews, status reports, kickoff meetings, test plans) demonstrating an ability to communicate comfortably at a system level

+ Attend and support highly technical engineering team meetings

+ Travel as necessary to attend conferences and customer meetings

Required Experience:

+ 5+ years engineering experience

+ BS in SE, CS, EE, ME, or other engineering equivalent

+ Support programs through SRR, PDR, CDR or equivalent design reviews

+ Experience with Microsoft Office products (Excel, Word, Power Point, Visio)

+ Familiarity with modern IT infrastructure capabilities to include virtualization, cloud deployment and containerization

+ Candidate must be self-motivated and comfortable with supporting multiple groups of developers, engineers, and testers.

+ Candidate must be able to articulate technical concepts orally and in written forms both internally to the team as well as externally to the customer and users.

+ Excellent written and oral communications skills.

Preferred Skills and Experience

+ Working knowledge of space systems, including ground systems, satellite command and control, RF systems, and system development processes is a plus.

+ Experience with Agile methodology

+ Experience with Product Owner

+ Experience with Atlassian products

+ Experience with satellite ground systems

+ Experience with SCN (formally AFSCN)

+ Experience with SATCOM mission planning

+ Experience with SecDevOps processes

+ Model-Based Systems Engineering using Cameo or Enterprise Architect

+ Security+ certification is not required but is beneficial to the position

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The grade-based pay range for this job is listed below. Individual salaries within that range are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, and skills.

This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date.

Competitive salary based on experience and education

Salary Range: $90,000-$125,000

Kratos is valued for our ability to design and deliver leading edge, resilient solutions for aerospace communication, control, awareness and mission success across a continuum of offerings—from commercial to tailored custom solutions and integrated programs. Customers trust us to stay relevant and know we are in it for the long-haul. We bring both the capability and confidence that our customers value and depend on. And, we always deliver.

Keyword: Ground System sustainment, Agile methodology, Product Owner, requirements analysis and decomposition, MBSE Model Based System Engineering, system documentation

Kratos Defense is an Equal Opportunity Affirmative Action Employer. EOE, Minorities, Females, Vet, Disabled, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity or any other protected class.

All qualified job seekers are encouraged to apply. Kratos Defense is committed to America's veterans by providing opportunities for them to continue contributing after service to our nation. We also work to provide reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities.

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From: Kratos Defense