System Design/Architect Engineer

Readiness Delivered. 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 seeihttp://www.kratosdefense.com/.

We have an exciting opportunity to join our Systems Engineering team supporting the highly successful Command and Control Consolidated System within the C-SAR Program based in Colorado Springs, CO. This role is responsible for performing system design updates, reliability assessment, hardware/software integration, and system documentation updates. The candidate will collaborate closely with Product Owners, software developers, testers, and on-site user support personnel to analyze and resolve system issues, implement updates, and ensure project objectives are achieved.

Primary responsibilities include ground system sustainment, Agile increment planning and reviews, CDRL report preparation and reviews, meeting and working group participation, and support for Task Orders, ECPs, CCPs, and ROMs. In addition, the candidate may engage with management, product, and IR&D teams to help define strategic technical directions, develop innovative solutions for executing programs, and contribute to the organizationis continued technical excellence and market leadership.

• Supporting the C-SAR System Engineering team to ensure all engineering contractual requirements and deliverables are met.
• Support all required IPTs, TIMs, WGs and Ad hoc meetings
• Participate in CDRL generation and deliveries based on customer prescribed schedule
• SecDevOps processes and related Agile practices (Atlassian suite)
• Lead/Conduct studies and capture technical analysis in support future design reviews
• Support Reliability analysis
• Requirements analysis
• System design and architecture
• System documentation updates
• Work closely with Product Owners, 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
• Developiand deliver effective customer presentations (support design reviews, statusireports, kickoff meetings, test plans) demonstrating an ability to communicate comfortably at a system level
• Attend and supportihighly technical engineering team meetings
• Travel as necessary to attend conferences and customer meetings

• 10+ years engineering
• BS in SE, CS, EE, ME, or other engineering equivalent
• Support programs through SRR, PDR, CDR or equivalent design reviews
• Experience with SCN or satellite ground systems
• Familiarity with Cross Domain Solutions (CDS)
• Complete knowledge of Agile methodology
• 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.
• Working knowledge of space systems, including ground systems and system development processes

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Cryptographic equipment (e.g., KG-252, KG-255) and Front End Processor (FEP) integration, configuration, and troubleshooting within ground system environments
• Space to Ground ICDs
• SATCOM mission planning
• Risk management
• MBSE
• Familiarity with modern IT infrastructure capabilities to include virtualization, cloud deployment and containerization (CNFs)
• Risk Management Framework (RMF)
• DOORS
• 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.

Competitive salary based on experience and education
Salary Range: $130,000-$160,000

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 offeringsifrom 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.

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